Archive for January, 2012

(Credit: Audi) Audi of America’s new advertising campaign is sinking its teeth into the popularity of vampires with a new 60-second TV spot that will air in the first break after kickoff in Super Bowl XLVI. The commercial, featuring the new 2013 Audi S7, was part of a contest called Race the Light. Audi fans [...]

The new Sony Cyber-shot TX200V’s photo and movie capabilities will make any smartphone camera look like a toy. At just barely more than half an inch thick, the TX200V features an 18-megapixel (18!) Exmor R backside-illuminated sensor, a 5x f3.5-4.8 26-130mm Carl Zeiss lens, and a 3.3-inch 1.2-million-dot-resolution touch-screen OLED display. It’s also waterproof to [...]

I rarely get all that excited by the sound of iPod speakers, if only because you can so easily get better sound from a good set of desktop speakers. I’ve cited Audioengine’s terrific little speakers many times in this blog, and I still love them, but there’s a new speaker from Emotiva Pro, the airmotiv [...]

BMW says touch me, Ford takes mirrors high tech for quiet, the Chevy Volt is off the hook with the Feds, and how much would you pay for Obama’s Chrysler 300? And we drive the Chrysler 300 SRT8. Listen now: Download today’s podcast Subscribe with iTunes (audio)Subscribe with iTunes (video)Subscribe with RSS (audio)Subscribe with RSS [...]

Phones come in many sizes, and Android (on the two Nexus models here) is designed to span the range. (Credit: phone-size.com) One of the pesky fragmentation issues Android programmers must worry about is different screen sizes. With resolution changing from one phone to another, programmers have to figure out exactly how much room they can [...]


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