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Nikon D800
€2,799
Remember the days when a 5 megapixel camera seemed like the cutting edge of technology? That wasn’t all that long ago. Now we’re faced with this: the 36.3 megapixel Nikon D800.
For the average consumer, this camera is likely going to be overkill. It’s aimed at professionals, as the price would suggest, and has a full-frame sensor with a decent ISO range. But it is also capable of standing in for your broadcast video camera, with a range of formats and quality settings for shooting movie clips.
It even enables uncompressed HDMI output that can be sent to external recorders and monitors for more professional editing.
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Tokyoflash Kisai Rogue Touch watch
€148
You know those unfathomable binary watches that seem so popular? The Kisai Rogue Touch is just as complicated, but comes with added LED and a touch-sensitive screen. The touch-screen enabled watch face can be used to control the time displayed, set alarms and dates, and get it to light up. The touch screen has an automatic lock so it isn’t activated accidentally, and can be unlocked with a gesture on the watch’s screen. And its LCD display comes in four colours – red, blue, green and “natural LCD”, whatever that may be. If you need a bit more light, there are LED lights that can be activated with a single touch.
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Sony SRSB TV25 speaker
€129.99
Sony’s new speaker uses something it has called a circle sound stage, and 360 degree circle sound. But all you really need to know are three things: you can hook your smartphone, tablet or digital music player up to it; you may not necessarily need a cable to do this; and the end result sounds good.
If you’ve got Bluetooth on your device, you can connect wirelessly to the speaker; if not, there’s an audio-in jack for music players. It charges via USB, and is relatively easy to set up in just a few minutes.
