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A revolutionary product from Casio which transforms images into Works of Art using Picture Alteration Technology was announced today at CES.
The Digital Art Frame promises to turn the whole jaded market of conventional photo frames on its head.

We really hope to get this beauty into a prime spot here to display some amazingly artistic images.

But first: how does it work its magic?

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Promise ZERO NS2600

We've written about the upcoming ZERO before so it's not exactly a state secret anymore... But there have been some further developments...

What's it all about? Promise Technology, purveyors of all good things pertaining to NAS and storage solutions, recognized that some people (most people??) just don't get this whole configuration business when it comes to setting up RAID or NAS systems. And if they do, most would really appreciate an even simpler solution.

So how about "Zero Configuration, Zero Frustration and Zero Hassles"?

That's the promise of the ZERO indeed.

Personally, not that I'm sceptical about the aim of realizing that, but can Promise really pull this off?

I know how hard that is but if they can they'll break open a whole new market for these boxes.

Talking of which: the ZERO was going to be based on the reliable 2 bay workhorse, the NS2300 but has now been upgraded to the NS2600. Bigger numbers are always better, right? Well, we'll see if that's the case when they send the demo model used at CES straight to us after the Show.

Anyhow: the picture on the left is the new unit. And a nice looking one at that. Will be relegated to the top of my desk rather than below deck...

And here's some more details on he ZERO:

Silicon Power SDHC Memory Card

You can always count on someone. Here I am stressing because a cheap market chained brand SDHC (Class 6) card fell over 3 times during our review of the Sanyo Xacti VPC - FH1 Camcorder. But lo' and behold Silicon Power via Tasco.com.au came to the rescue.
They aleady know their Class 6 works in the Sanyo ok but they are rushing me their latest and greatest off their assembly line, a 16GB Class 10 SDHC memory card. 
We suspect that inferior SDHC cards are causing a lot of problems with all sorts of high demand equipment.

In the Sanyo review we made the bold statement that “Cards just aint cards”.

Will this Memory card deliver for the Sanyo Xacti VPC FH-1 Camcorder?

We shall wait and see!

UPDATE: Review completed 5th Jan 2010. See here.

Promise ZERO prototype

Sometimes getting (a) ZERO isn't too bad... and when it comes from Promise Technology, whose NAS products have been a favourite on our editorial team, this will be a box to look out for.

Particularly if all that NAS and RAID stuff is too finicky to set up for you as the ZERO stands for zero configuration! The picture on the left shows a prototype when it initially was still called SmartStor SNS -- Simple Network Storage.

We'll see if that is really true in a few weeks time.

In the meantime, Promise have just released the NS4600 SR1. That stands for Service Release 1, by the way, which means better performance and lots of new features. We may expand on our NS4600 experiences sometime later as well.

miniHomer GPS

Being the type of person that gets lost all too easily and does more laps of the carpark than I'm willing to admit - the miniHomer Key-Chain GPS Position Finder looks like a valuable contribution to my keyring.

We'll be reviewing this high-tech, reverse navigation system that claims it can navigate you back to a previously marked location in any weather condition -  so stay tuned for the full write up.

UPDATE: The miniHomer has arrived at HeadQuarters -- review to follow soon (if we don't get lost doing other things in the meantime...)