My shutterbug pals are always asking me to find a gadget that will let them download photos from a digital camera and replace the laptop that they have to lug on shoots. And since these folks are stationed in places like Kabul and NOLA, they usually have to carry those weighty Toughbooks around. Picture Porter might just be the answer to their prayers.

This portable media player has a 2-inch LCD screen and controls for rotating, zooming, and panning pictures, it also displays EXIF information. It grabs photos straight from the camera and has a multi-format card reader—works with CF I/II, SD Card, MMC, memory stick, MD, etc.—and USB 2.0 for transfers to the CPU. The Porter is about 5-inches by 3-inches, and comes in 20GB and 40GB sizes. The battery life is listed at 3.5 hours for video and 7.5 hours for music—that’s right, it’s a full-on multimedia player too. Finally, it’s got TV outputs for watching the photos on screen. Price is $399. This is obviously geared to consumers, but there is probably a decent pro market for the Porter as well.

From: Gizmodo.com

Logitech, has finally gotten on the ball and released a keyboard tailored to the computer gamer.

The new Logitech G15 has some nice features that actually tailor to gamers. The most acknowledged feature is probably the LCD screen on the keyboard. Keyboard macros can be setup on the physical keyboard while in game. Also while not gaming the LCD screen can read media information, display CPU information, email alerts and the keyboard even comes with a software development kit so the coding gamers can write their own programs to display information on the LCD. Backlit keys and a “gaming button” that disable the windows key are also nice. This should be available soon in the U.S. and expect to pay a cool $79.

From: Engadget.com

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Not that we should be so surprised by his subject matter or stance, but Unkie Moss took on the Mighty Mouse this week, and apparently came up a little short on nice things to say. Which is totally fine with us—hate on the thing as much as you please, but being a little bitter-sounding about Apple only now adopting the two-button clikkity-clikkity-clack is a little redundant. He does think it’s “harder to use” than competing mice, interestingly, and says it’s inferior to Microsoft’s Wireless Optical Mouse 5000, which he hearts because it has an integrated zoom feature. His conclusion: “stop the presses: Microsoft has beaten Apple on hardware design, at least in this one case.” Jury’s still out over here since some of us have yet to play around with one, but we definitely have to attest that Walt’s usual grumpy old man harshtitude’s a little thicker than usual this week.

Source: Engadget