Pentax K-01 and Optio WG-2 cameras now available

Pentax has been teasing us with its trio of cameras for what seems like an eternity. It’s been long enough that we’ve actually had playtime with the new mirrorless flagship, the K-01. That chunky retro body will turn some heads in the street, so any fashionistas can now pick it up. It’ll be winging its

Samsung patents phone skins, mood swings, Amazon

See that crazy faceplate with matching wallpaper that sells for two-a-penny on Amazon? Well, Samsung wants to patent something even worse. It’s so bad we had to hide it away after the break. (Honestly, don’t look at it — unlike the USPTO, you won’t get paid for your trouble.) At first we believed the

Combining Yelp & Twitter For Foodies, Fondu’s Redesign Beefs Up Recommendations, Discovery

At TechCrunch Disrupt NYC last year, Gauri Manglik, Mike Lewis, and Orion Burt launched SpotOn, a recommendation engine in app, which served its users suggested local businesses based on their friends’ activity on Foursquare, Facebook, and more. The co-founders quickly found, however, that its customers

Costa Concordia gets search help from robotics

Italian authorities have confirmed that they will be using robotic equipment for the kind of tasks that it does best – maneuvering through areas that humans can’t successfully navigate. And there are, as you might expect, a number of those areas on the capsized cruise liner the Costa Concordia.

Twitter buys Posterous social startup

Twitter has just added another new online company to its arsenal. The microblogging site announced in an official blog post that it has acquired Posterous, a company that specializes in building products that allow users to easily share online content with friends. Posterous’s technology delved

Microsoft Azure refunds to compensate for Leap Day outage

Microsoft will be offering sweeping refunds for customers of its Azure cloud service, regardless of whether or not their individual service was impacted. The refunds are to compensate for an embarrassing bug that caused some customers to be unable to access their service on Leap Day. Yes, even in 2012

Sony a57 DSLR Camera revealed and detailed

This week Sony have revealed the a57 A-mount camera with translucent mirror technology and a set of advanced features set to impress mainstream SLR users across the market. This camera brings pro-level performance to the masses with 12 fps shooting, Full HD (60p) Video Capture, and a lovely high-resolution

Acer reveals five new Ultra Slim LED backlit LCD displays

Today Acer is bringing five new LED-backlit displays to the party, each of them ultra slim and ready for 100,000,000:1 contrast ratio action. These monitors are able to work with a 5ms response time and range from 20 to 27-inches, each of them with adjustable tilt bases. These new displays are ready

Acer brings five monitors to the US market, ranging in price from $139 to $329

If that display up there looks familiar, it’s because it’s already won itself a fancy schmancy iF product design award. But as Prospero would say, ’tis new to thee — at least if you live on this side of the Atlantic. Acer just announced it’s bringing that very S23HL monitor to the US, along with four

Sony announces Alpha A57 translucent mirror camera with 12fps shooting, improved autofocus system

DSLRs tend to have longer refresh cycles than oh, we don’t know, phones with RAZR in the name, but every shooter must eventually go to heaven nonetheless. About a year and a half after introducing the Alpha A55 translucent mirror camera, Sony’s putting that model out to pasture to make way for its replacement,