The Sony Handycam NEX-VG10 is an interchangeable-lens video camera made and distributed by Sony. It uses Sony E mount camera lenses that were first used on the Sony NEX-3 and Sony NEX-5. It is capable of shooting in 1920×1080 full high definition using a large APS-C sensor. The video is captured in the AVCHD format. When capturing still photos the NEX-VG10 is capable of 14-megapixel stills. The camera kit comes with a 18-200 mm lens that will also be compatible with the NEX Mirrorless interchangeable lens camera systems. The 16 mm ultra wide and 18-55 mm lens e-mount lenses will also work with full auto-focus support The built-on microphone is made of four directional mics that record in two-way stereo with the ability to capture both front and back sounds. The mic handle also has support for a hot shoe to connect a supported flash gun and a cold shoe to add on extra accessories. There will also be a 3.5 mm microphone jack to add an external microphone for more accurate sound capture. First shipments of the NEX-VG10 commenced in September 2010. Its launch price is $1999 US dollars and it comes in a kit with a Sony SAL-18200 lens with hood and a free download of Vegas Movie Studio.

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PANASONIC FZ100

Extended zooms, commonly known as superzooms, are the closest to all-in-one cameras as you can get, with enormous zoom ranges and stacked feature sets; though they're really just point-and-shoots on steroids, they offer out-of-the-box versatility that similarly priced dSLRs can't approach. Though it was released in 2010 and leaves plenty of room for improvement, the Panasonic FZ100 remains the best superzoom out there. It sports an ample 25-600mm (24x) lens with a handy 3-inch articulating LCD, hi-res electronic viewfinder, solid 1080i video mode, and speedy all-around performance including an 11fps burst mode. Overall image quality is solid, though JPEGs can look soft at large sizes. Thankfully, it's one of the few superzooms to support RAW capture, so the blemishes can be worked out in post-processing. No, it isn't a perfect package, but we haven't seen any compelling reasons to believe that any new models are any better, all things considered. There are some worthy options, though. The Nikon P500 is impressive mostly for its lens, sporting a class-leading 36x zoom range, starting at a class-leading 22.5mm. While reviews have knocked its image stabilization (but think of that telephoto!) and out-moded interface, its out-of-camera image quality is quite good, even in poor lighting. And for the best possible image quality, there's no better option than the Fujifilm HS20EXR. Unfortunately, reviews indicate that it's hampered by design issues, a wonky interface, and amateurish video mode. And if you really must fall into the budget-superzoom trap, lean toward the Nikon L120, the only cheap superzoom that doesn't feel like a toy.

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ASTON MARTIN V12 Zagato

aston martin" i new V12 Zagato

• New V12 Zagato concept to be premiered at the Villa D’Este Concours on 21st May to gauge customer interest

• The V12 Zagato will appear in the form of an endurance race car to compete at the Nürburgring 24 hour race on 25/26 June; following tradition of recent new Aston Martins
Gaydon / Lake Como, 20 May 2011. Aston Martin will unveil the stunning new V12 Zagato endurance racer concept on the shores of Lake Como, Italy at the Villa D’Este Concours tomorrow.
Featuring a new handcrafted aluminium body, the V12 Zagato delivers a beautiful and muscular design not possible using pre-formed panel techniques. Using the influences and skill of nearly 100 years of heritage in the craft, every aluminium panel was formed using an English wheel and traditionally crafted body bucks. Each front wing alone comprises seven separate pieces of aluminium, combined and then hand finished to give one flowing form. Another iconic Zagato design cue is the double bubble roof created in this case from five separate pieces illustrating further the intensity of craftsmanship involved in the construction of the V12 Zagato.
Designed for the focused driver, the V12 Zagato has been honed with pure driving enjoyment in mind. The V12 Zagato combines Aston Martin’s most dynamic bonded aluminium platform with the power of the 6.0-litre V12 engine producing 510 bhp (380 kW / 517 PS), and 570 Nm (420 lb ft) of torque.

The V12 Vantage which forms the basis of the V12 Zagato has been proven on the race track as early as 2009 with a class win in its debut race at the 24 hour race at Nürburgring whilst being close to production standard with only essential safety modifications, reduced weight and re-tuned suspension but no additional aerodynamic enhancements. In 2011 the car has gone on to form the basis of the new Aston Martin GT3 race car unveiled last month.
The first DB4GT Zagato shown to the public in late 1960 spent much of its life as a racing car after launch. Later perhaps the two most famous DB4GT Zagatos, registered ‘1 VEV’ and ‘2 VEV’ were raced with success by such names as Jim Clark and Roy Salvadori. The fascinating story of these cars and the nature of high performance and low weight which drove the Zagato projects gave the inspiration for the first two V12 Zagatos to be created as endurance race cars.
Aston Martin V12 Zagato Endurance Race Car Specification
Body:
Two door, two seat coupe body
Bonded aluminium structure
Bespoke steel roll cage.
Hand crafted Aluminium body
Engine:
All alloy quad overhead cam 48 valve 5935cc V12
Compression ratio 10.9:1
Front mid-mounted engine, rear wheel drive
Transmission:
Rear mid-mounted, six-speed automated manual gearbox with auto shift manual/select shift manual (ASM/SSM) electric hydraulic control system
Magnesium alloy torque tube with carbon fibre propeller shaft
Twin Plate competition clutch.
Limited slip differential.
Suspension:
All round independent double wishbone with fully adjustable Multimatic DSSV dampers.
Brakes:
Front: Ventilated floating grooved discs with 6 piston callipers
Rear: Ventilated floating grooved discs with 4 piston callipers
Fuel System:
120 litre endurance racing fuel tank

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Audi Q7

The Q7 is Audi's first ever SUV offering with a recent refresh and a new engine lineup. The large crossover provides seating for seven and rides on Volkswagen's 7L platform.The design was originally based on the Audi's Pikes Peak quattro concept car, and mechanically the Q7 is similar to both the Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne.
The base Q7 engine features a 272 horsepower, 295 lb-ft of torque supercharged 3.0-liter V6, coupled with a 6-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission. This combo will take the Q7 from a stop to 60 mph in 7.8 seconds and is rated at 16 city and 22 highway miles per gallon.
For the S-line Q7, the 3.0 TFSI engine is uprated to 333 horsepower and 325 lb-ft of torque, but retains the same fuel economy ratings. Acceleration to 60 is hasted to 6.9 seconds.
The final engine option is a 3.0-liter, 225 horsepower, 406 pound-feet of torque V6 turbo-diesel, or TDI as Audi calls it. The TDI offering will demand an extra $4,000 and will boost fuel efficiency to 17 mpg city, and 25 mpg highway while using the same 6-speed Tiptronic automatic and quattro AWD as the other two engines. The TDI comes in just slower than the 3.6-liter V6 with an 8.5 second 0-60 time.
Audi has also decided to change its naming scheme around for its trim levels, with Premium now representing the base model, Premium Plus as mid-grade and Prestige as the top offering. If customers opt for the gas-powered Q7, they can also get the S-line Prestige model.
Standard across the latest Q7 line you will find a plethora of features, such as: Servotronic speed-sensitive steering, eight-speed Tiptronic automatic transmission, electronic differential lock, adaptive air suspension, front and rear vented disc brakes, anti-theft alarm, heated windshield nozzles, power tailgate, leather seats, iPod, Blueooth and Sirius radio connectivity and more.but if that list isn't enough, upgrading to the Premium Plus trim level will add: parking system with camera, auto-dimming, power-adjustable and power-folding heated exterior mirrors with integrated LED turn signals, xenon plus headlights with automatic self-leveling and integrated LED daytime running lights, panarama sunroof, driver memory, Multi Media Interface system including navigation, voice control system and an eight-color driver information display. To distinguish the two from the outside, the Premium Plus also gets more brightwork, including chromed roof rails.
On the safety front, the three SUVs come with ABS and EBD-enhanced four-wheel ventilated disc brakes, and Audi's Electronic Stabilization Program. Regardless of engine choice, the behemoths are limited to 130 mph top speeds. The Prestige trim comes standard with upgraded brakes for maximum stopping power.

Maximum towing capacity for the V6 model is 5,500 pounds, with the TDI and V8 both managing 6,600 lb burdens.

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PLAY STATION 3

The PlayStation 3 , officially abbreviated as PS3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. The PlayStation 3 competes with Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006 in Japan, with international markets following shortly thereafter.

Major features of the console include its unified online gaming service, the PlayStation Network, its robust multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the PlayStation Portable,
online gaming service, the PlayStation Network, its robust multimedia capabilities, connectivity with the PlayStation Portable, and its use of the
The PlayStation 3 features a slot-loading 2x speed Blu-ray Disc drive for games, Blu-ray movies, DVDs, CDs and other optical media. It was originally available with hard drives of 20 and 60 GB (20 GB model was not available in PAL regions) but various sizes up to 320 GB have been made available since then models have user-upgradeable 2.5" SATA hard drives.

The PlayStation 3 uses the Sony, Toshiba, IBM-designed Cell microprocessor as its CPU, which is made up of one 3.2 GHz PowerPC-based "Power Processing Element" (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPEs). The eighth SPE is disabled to improve chip yields. Only six of the seven SPEs are accessible to developers as the seventh SPE is reserved by the console's operating system. Graphics processing is handled by the NVIDIA RSX 'Reality Synthesizer', which can output resolutions from 480i/576i SD up to 1080p HD. The PlayStation 3 has 256 MB of XDR DRAM main memory and 256 MB of GDDR3 video memory for the RSX.

The system has Bluetooth 2.0 (with support for up to 7 bluetooth devices), gigabit Ethernet, USB 2.0 and HDMI 1.4[cn 1] built in on all currently shipping models. Wi-Fi networking is also built-in on all but the 20 GB models, while a flash card reader (compatible with Memory Stick, SD/MMC and CompactFlash/Microdrive media) is built-in on 60 GB and CECHExx 80 GB models.

The PS3's hardware has also been used to build supercomputers for high-performance computing. Fixstars Solutions sell a version of Yellow Dog Linux for the PlayStation 3 (originally sold by Terra Soft Solutions). RapidMind produced a stream programming package for the PS3, but were acquired by Intel in 2009. Also, on January 3, 2007, Dr. Frank Mueller, Associate Professor of Computer science at NCSU, clustered 8 PS3s. Mueller commented that the 256 MB of system RAM is a limitation for this particular application and is considering attempting to retrofit more RAM. Software includes: Fedora Core 5 Linux ppc64, MPICH2, OpenMP v 2.5, GNU Compiler Collection and CellSDK 1.1. As a more cost-effective alternative to conventional supercomputers, the U.S. military has purchased clusters of PS3 units for research purposes. Retail PS3 Slim units cannot be used for supercomputing, because the PS3 Slim lacks the ability to boot into a third-party OS.

On March 22, 2007, SCE and Stanford University released the Folding@home project for the PlayStation 3.[61] This program allows PS3 owners to lend the computing power of their consoles to help study the physical process of protein folding.

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IPAD 2

The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content. Its size and weight falls between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. The iPad runs the same operating system as the iPod Touch and iPhone—and can run its own applications as well as iPhone applications. Without modification, and with the exception of websites, it will only run programs approved by Apple and distributed via its online store.

Like iPhone and iPod Touch, the iPad is controlled by a multitouch display—a departure from most previous tablet computers, which used a pressure-triggered stylus—as well as a virtual onscreen keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard. The iPad uses a Wi-Fi data connection to browse the Internet, load and stream media, and install software. Some models also have a 3G wireless data connection which can connect to HSPA or EV-DO data networks. The device is managed and synced by iTunes on a personal computer via USB cable.

Apple released the first iPad in April 2010, and sold 3 million of the devices in 80 days.[16] During 2010, Apple sold 14.8 million iPads worldwide, representing 75 percent of tablet PC sales at the end of 2010 By the release of the iPad 2 in March 2011, more than 15 million iPads had been sold other tablet PCs combined.[citation needed In 2011, it is expected to take 83 percent of the tablet computing market share in the United States.

Technical specifications

Model iPad (original) iPad 2

Announcement date January 27, 2010 March2,2011

US Release date April 3, 2010 March 11, 2011

Discontinued date March 2, 2011

Display 9.7 inches (25 cm) multitouch display at a resolution of 1024 × 768 pixels with LED backlighting and a fingerprint and scratch-resistant coating

Processor 1 GHz Apple A4 system-on-a-chip 1 GHz (dynamically clocked) dual-core Apple A5 system on a chip

Memory 256 MB DDR RAM built into Apple A4 package

512 MB DDR2 (1066 Mbps data rate) RAM built into Apple A5 package

Storage 16, 32, or 64 GB

Wireless Wi-Fi Wi-Fi (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth 2.1+EDR

Wi-Fi+3G 3G cellular HSDPA, 2G cellular EDGE on 3g models

Geolocation Wi-Fi Wi-Fi,Apple location databases

Wi-Fi+3G Assisted GPS, Apple databases,Cellular network

Environmental sensors Accelerometer, ambient light sensor, magnetometer Additionally: gyroscope

Operating system iOS 4.3

Battery Built-in lithium-ion polymer battery; (10 hours video, 140 hours audio, 1 month standby

Weight 1.5 lb (680 g) 1.33 lb (600 g)

Dimensions 9.56×7.47×.528 in (243×190×13.4 mm) 9.5×7.31×.346 in (240×186×8.8 mm)

Mechanical keys Home, sleep, volume rocker, variable function switch (originally screen rotation lock, mute in iOS 4.2, either in 4.3)

Camera Back N/A 720p HD still and video camera

30fps and 5x digital zoom

Front N/A VGA-quality still camera

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IPHONE 4

The iPhone 4 is a touchscreen smartphone developed by Apple. It is the fourth generation of iPhone, and successor to the iPhone 3GS. It is particularly marketed for video calling (marketed by Apple as Facetime, consumption of media such as books and periodicals, movies, music, and games, and for general web and e-mail access. It was announced on June 7, 2010, at the WWDC 2010 held at the Moscone Center, San Francisco,[6] and was released on June 24, 2010, in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan.

The iPhone 4 runs Apple's iOS operating system, the same operating system as used on previous iPhones, the iPad, and the iPod Touch. It is primarily controlled by a user's fingertips on the multi-touch display, which is sensitive to fingertip contact.

The most noticeable difference between the iPhone 4 and its predecessors is the new design, which incorporates an uninsulated stainless steel frame that acts as the device's antenna. The internal components of the device are situated between two panels of chemically strengthened aluminosilicate glass.[7] It has an Apple A4 processor and 512 MB of eDRAM, twice that of its predecessor and four times that of the original iPhone. Its 3.5-inch (89 mm) LED backlit liquid crystal display with a 960×640 pixel resolution is marketed as the "Retina Display".

The latest operating system release is iOS 4.3.3.

Included items:

All iPhone models include written documentation, and a dock connector to USB cable. The original and 3G iPhones also came with a cleaning cloth. The original iPhone included stereo headset (earbuds and a microphone) and a plastic dock to hold the unit upright while charging and syncing. The iPhone 3G includes a similar headset plus a SIM eject tool (the original model requires a paperclip). The iPhone 3GS includes the SIM eject tool and a revised headset, which adds volume buttons (not functional with previous iPhone versions).[49][78] The iPhone 3G and 3GS are compatible with the same dock, sold separately, but not the original model's dock.[79] All versions include a USB power adapter, or "wall charger," which allows the iPhone to charge from an AC outlet. The iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS sold in North America, Japan, Colombia, Ecuador, or Peru[80][81] include an ultracompact USB power adapter.

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