The benefit of Ricoh’s GXR camera is obviously its ability to swap lenses, though the selection obviously isn’t as abundant as DSLR cameras. Now Ricoh has announced its P10 telephoto-ranged lens for the camera. The P10 is a 10-megapixel 28-300mm f3.5-5.6 lens. Aside from that, you additionally get 720p video recording and continual RAW shooting at 5 fps. Ricoh hasn’t announced the price or shipping period for the P10, but whether you’re shopping around for the GXR camera, you can expect to pay about $550 for the body.

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When it comes to the military, the smarter devices are, the better they are. And the XM-25 Individual Airburst Weapon is a rather cool gun that you’d probably want to have with you whether you’re in a sticky situation. that gun is capable of firing a 25mm “smart round” that can be detonated at a pre-programmed distance, spreading shrapnel in all directions. A rangefinder is used to determine how far the target is, allowing the user to correctly adjust when the bullet detonates. You really wouldn’t want to be on the receiving end of that weapon, would you?

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G.Skill universal has a spanking new Phoenix SATA II 2.5-inch SSD for the mass market, where you can choose from some rather strange denominations when it comes to total amount of storage space – we’re talking about 50GB, 100GB or 200GB capacities, where they will all feature the SandForce SF-1200 controller which is capable of hitting 280MB/s read and 270MB/s write speeds. Each purchase will be accompanied by a 2-year warranty, although we do not have any data on pricing and availability. Just in case you were wondering whether hard drives will get obsolete, companies are looking at 900GB models in the near future, so for those who don’t mind some noise coming out of their computers when info is being accessed, soon after you can always give the SSD camp a miss. [Press Release]

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We recently brought your attention to the upcoming Kindle 2.5 firmware update that will bring social network integration to Amazon’s Kindle, and now it seems that the folks by at Ars Technica have managed to get hold of the firmware before it’s officially released, and they’ve been kind sufficient to upload pictures of it in action. As we previously mentioned, the most notable features of the upcoming firmware would be the new “Collections” feature that allows you to sort your books into groups and the ability to share a passage from a book with your Twitter and Facebook friends. The downside of the Facebook and Twitter integration is that it only allows you to share the composition in a anatomy of a link instead of the actual quote, but it’s still better than nothing, right?

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When you talk of an ultra-thin notebook, Apple’s MacBook Air and Dell’s Adamo XPS would automatically come to mind. Now it seems that Toshiba wants to be included in that elite group as well, as a recent leak reveals. According to the leak, Toshiba is planning to churn out a system that will be powered by Intel’s Core i7 processor but still be small ample to fit into the ultra-thin category, thanks to some exotic cooling and construction. It will be using a system dubbed “Mountain Blaze” to lower the heat, and would be made out of a unibody, honeycomb structure, ensuring that it’s still hard, despite its dimensions. The system is targeted to weigh 2.4 pounds and will sport a 512GB SSD and could possibly be the first notebook to use Toshiba’s SCiB battery. whether everything works out hunky dory, the system would be shipping sometime that summer and could offer options of using Intel’s Core i3 or i5 processors as well. You can expect such a notebook to burn quite a deep gap on your wallet, so you’d better start saving now.

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Sure, we know that Windows Mobile, Android, and the iPhone are all able to churn out some mold of musical instrument sound via some program or another, but what happens when you combine them all together and turn them into an instrument? That’s precisely what someone has done, and the conclusion is rather cool. Check out a video after the jump and see for yourself. Now all they need to do is start a music school for that new “instrument”.

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Offering Apple’s iPhone always seems to put a strain on any carrier’s network, as AT&T found out the hard way. Now Vodafone UK might be feeling the pinch too, as the carrier has confirmed, via its forum, that it’s planning to impose some new charges from June 1st onwards. While the carrier will still be offering 500MB of documents with any bundle plan worth £25 or more, but users who go past the 500MB threshold will be charged £5 for every additional 500MB that they use. Folks who are on a plan that doesn’t include any details will be charged 50p for every 10MB of documents by the basic 25MB. While £5 isn’t a lot of money, nobody likes having to shell out additional moolah, particularly since the carrier previously had 500MB as a fair use threshold, but didn’t charge or throttle the connection unless it started to create problems on the network. Are you comfortable with these new charges, or do you think that it’s a poor deal?

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It’s been a expanded instance coming, and we already knew that the iPad would be launched internationally in May, but now Apple has given us an official date: May 28th. On that duration, the lucky folks by in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will be able to pick up Apple’s latest gem. Aside from that, it’ll be arriving in Austria, Belgium, Hong Kong, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore in July too. Pre-orders will start on May 10th, which is just around the corner, so get your wallets ready. In case you’re wondering how much you’ll need to pay, Apple has additionally announced the pricing, so you’re free to withdraw the money from the bank.

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While the market is in the midst of being flooded with tablet devices, one of the devices that stand out from the rest, aside from Apple’s iPad, is the WePad which sports a rather pretty design and some good specifications. Now the company has officially announced that it has renamed the device as the WeTab, so that they can clearly distinguish their products within the worldly market for tablet computers. Aside from the name change, the technical specifications of that device remain precisely the same, so you’ve still got your Atom processor, 1.3-megapixel webcam, 11.6-inch display and other stuff. Aside from that, the device has additionally gone up for pre-order on Amazon.de, though there wasn’t any shipping period mentioned. The asking price for the WeTab is €449 ($572) for the 16GB Wi-Fi version and €569 ($725) for the 32GB 3G version.

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The Solar Vehicle Project team by at the University of Minnesota has unveiled its latest solar-powered car that will be participating in the 2010 American Solar Challenge, an 1100 mile race from Tulsa to Chicago. It’s dubbed the Centaurus 2. Looking very much like a UFO, the most notable change from the university’s previous eight solar vehicles is its improved aerodynamics and solar array encapsulation to maximize the speed and range of the vehicle. The car measures in at just by 3 feet tall and is about 16 feet distant and 6 feet wide, weighing about 400 pounds.

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