With direct access to the cloud, users can print their favorite photos stored in online albums, including CANON iMAGE GATEWAY and Picasa Web Albums, using the Online Album Photo Print option through PIXMA Cloud Link.

PIXMA MG4150 also includes a range of templates such as calendars, envelopes or other useful resources, all available at in the Web Template Print menu. Canon’s latest all-in-one prints at 9.9 ipm for monochrome documents and 5.7 ipm for colored ones. A borderless 10x15cm photo of high quality and printed in default mode will be ready in about 44 seconds.

The FINE ink technology of the print heads that use up to 2pl droplets, combined with a maximum printing resolution of 4800 dpi, contributes successfully to printing pictures and text documents with very well defined letters.

PIXMA MG4150 also has a 2.4” LCD screen and Auto Duplex Print module, which allows automatic printing on both sides of the paper.

PIXMA MG4150 will be available in Europe in March 2012.

Canon has also announced the launch of other three all-in-ones models, each having two versions. Here’s a brief presentation:

PIXMA MX375 – Main Features

All-In-One with fax and 30-sheet ADF

Up to 4800dpi, min. 2pl quality

ISO ESAT 8.7 ipm mono/5.0 ipm colour

ISO A4 Copy: 23 seconds

Compact design with FastFront

Easy-WebPrint EX for efficient web printing

Auto Document Fix enhancement

Full HD Movie Print

PIXMA MX435 – Main Features

Wi-Fi All-In-One with fax

Stylish all-black FastFront design

Up to 4800dpi, min. 2pl quality

30-sheet ADF

ISO ESAT 9.7 ipm mono/5.5 ipm colour

ISO A4 copy: 21 seconds

Scan to USB Memory without a PC

Easy-WebPrint EX

Full HD Movie Print

Supports AirPrint

PIXMA MX515 – Main Features

All-In-One with fax, Wi-Fi and Ethernet

Stylish all-black FastFront design

6.2cm TFT display

Up to 4800dpi, min. 2pl quality

30-sheet ADF

ISO ESAT 9.7 ipm mono/5.5 ipm colour

ISO A4 copy: 21 seconds

Auto Duplex Print

Scan to USB memory without a PC

Source: Canon Europe

Xybotyx

Xybot 1 goes on sale in February and full worldwide delivery is set for the following month.

According to Xybotyx founders, David Shafter and Daniel McShan, the Xybot 1 is riding on the wave of consumer demand for greater and greater latitudes in the use and enjoyment of the incredibly popular Apple iPhones. As of this hour, some 100,000,000 units of the iconic Apple smartphone – THE smartphone of the decade—are currently in the hands of users all over the planet.

Shafter and McShan said the latest white-hot smartphone and smartphone-support technology represented by the Xybot 1  promises to bring users to greater Fahrenheit altitudes with the scheduled release of the Xybot 1 within the next few weeks even as the phenomenal sales of the iPhone refuses to abate amid fierce competition from the roaring smartphone market.

Its creators describe the Xybot 1 in this no-holds barred confident-in-its excellence fashion: The Xybot 1 is to intelligent robotic support for a top-flight smartphone device as the iPhone itself is to the optimum handheld mobile computing device. The description include the following: Xybot 1’s twin high resolution cameras, iPhone – style precision crafted accelerometers and gyro compasses  to provide users with even greater ease in apps navigation, particularly with sweet finger – swipe and soft key actions, plus GPS, as well as the latest in hands-free iPhone convenience.

The creators added that these leading edge advantages are combined in the Xybot 1 with breakthrough developments in user-controlled features such as face and object recognition technology, finger-tip enabled area, telepresence for virtually unlimited area reach and availability, as well as easy programmability. To be priced initially at $111.11 when it goes on sale next month, the Xybot 1 promises to fulfill every iPhone user’s dream to own an affordable piece of space-age technology that will launch his smartphone enjoyment into virtual orbit.

Designed by Haroon Baig, a communication designer,  the Twitwee Clock wirelessly connects to the internet and constantly checks for new status updates or search results from the Twitter API. New Tweets are displayed on the built-in display in near-realtime accompanied by the call of a mechanical cuckoo popping out of the clock. It can monitors any twitter stream or search, so it can inform the user about new tweets in his personal timeline. In exhibition context however it is configured to react on self-referenced tweets. If TwitweeClock is mentioned in any tweet, the tweet is displayed on the built in screen and the cuckoo mechanism is triggered.

The clock consists of a touch screen display with a controller board and a wifi dongle, that is distributed as an open source/ open hardware platform with a linux operating system by Chumby Industries. On the device there is a Flash Lite Player installed. A custom built widget for the Twitwee Clock connects to the Twitter API to receive new tweets.

The device brings HDMI-support, WiFi, Ethernet, an SD card slot and two USB 2.0 ports. It also comes with optical audio, RCA audio and RF remote and plays any non-DRM media.

According to the companies, the Boxee Box, which has already won a Best of Innovations award from the Computer Electronics Association, ?reinterprets what TV should be, delivering all the movies, TV shows, music and photos from a user?s computer, home network and Internet to their HDTV with no PC needed.?

The full product will be shown at CES 2010 and it is supposed to hit the store shelves in Q2 2010 for about $200.

The company say its eventual goal is to let users integrate Boxee into their existing devices (TVs, game consoles, STB, and DVD/Blu-Ray players) where possible or to buy a Boxee Box if their existing hardware can’t run it.

In 2009, Boxee hopes to reach 1 million users across computers, AppleTVs, and other devices that can be connected to a television.

Source: HDTV.Biz-News.com

iBiquity, the developer and licenser of HD Radio Technology, introduced Gigaware Navigation Control HD Radio Receiver accessory and the HD Radio application. The accessory/app combination enables iPhone and iPod Touch to tune into HD Radio broadcasts. Adding HD Radio Technology to the iPhone and iPod touch (compatible with models updated with 3.0 software) is a two-step process: 1) Buy the Gigaware HD Radio accessory, designed for and sold exclusively at RadioShack for an MSRP of $79.99, 2 ) download and install  the free application from the App Store (under the Music category). The app enables you to preview content currently airing and directly select a main station or multicast channel stream, in addition to bookmark your favorite stations and multicast channels. An iTunes Tagging button on the Gigaware navigation accessory also allows to “tag” songs for future review and purchase via iTunes. It gives you access to more than 2,000 HD Radio stations on the air, and 1,000+ new FM multicast channels (HD2/HD3).

(find an iPod on the picture)

“It looks frightening and it is frightening!?, admits Brothers, the maker of the biggest ever iPod accessory. 28 individual speakers (each housed in their own chamber), frequency response of 40Hz ? 20.000kHz, maximum power of 125 Watts, 102 kilos of weight and 950 x 1250 x 300mm dimensions make Wall of Sound not only frightening but also one of the most powerful speakers on the market. It?s all hand-built and it?s equipped with a graceful mids and a crystal clear highs. And if you thought the speaker is oversized, here comes the price:  $4495. Surprisingly, the first edition of this monster is already sold out.

This time Olympus additionally offers a stylish retro black metal body reminiscent of a traditional PEN camera, accessory port to accommodate the included detachable VF-2 Electronic View Finder or optional external microphone adapter EMA-1, a Continuous Autofocus (C-AF) Tracking System, two new art filters – Diorama & Cross Process, full manual control of shutter/aperture in Movie Mode and HDMI control of camera?s playback functions using the TV Remote when the camera is connected to an HDTV. Unfortunately, the built-in flash lamp is still missing.

The E-P2 comes with either the small and lightweight Olympus M. ZUIKO Micro Four Thirds lenses: 14-42mm f3.5-5.6 (28-84mm equivalent) or 17mm f2.8 (34mm equivalent) and will be available in December for – watch out! – $1099.99.

New Vivitar camcorder features Infrared Night Vision – night-shooting mode (640×480 VGA, 30 fps) and is waterproof down to 16 feet. That?s already pretty much for $50! But 150 also has 8x digital zoom, 1.8″ TFT LCD, 2 GB NAND built-in memory (expandable via an SD spot), USB 2.0, TV Out (NTSC/PAL), webcam mode and comes in five different colours.

Earlier introduced at PHOTOKINA 2008, Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D camera has been just announced to be launched in Europe and US in September at the price of $600. Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D promises to be the world?s first compact digital camera snapping stills in three dimensions. Fuji‘s 10-megapixel shooter employs two lenses, spaced about the same distance apart as human eyes, which allow for the taking of simultaneous photos of the same scene from different angles. This is how 3D becomes real. To view the images properly you will need special stereoscopic LCD photo frame or will have to print the photos on a special paper with a clear plastic overlay that acts as a kind of 3-D lens. Fujifilm plans to launch an online service that will make 3-D prints for consumers.