Epson has succeeded in developing a thin-film piezo element that boasts the world's highest degree of distortion. The Micro Piezo print head is an inkjet print head which utilizes Epson's original Micro Piezo technology. This technology uses electrical signals to change the shape of piezo elements and then fires ink droplets according to the physical force generated by the change in shape of these elements. Epson's Stylus Photo and Stylus Pro inkjet printers, which utilize Micro Piezo print head technology, are photo-quality printers that have consistently played leading roles in the Japanese inkjet printer market and earned high approval and trust from customers. Volume production of next-generation Micro Piezo print heads that feature these elements as actuators will be launched in April 2007.

One of the better Stylus models, the Stylus 1000 adds high resolution with sensor sensitivity up to ISO 6,400 and a comfortable control button layout. With very low lens distortion and a 15x combined optical and digital zoom range, not much escapes it. The Stylus 1000's live histogram is a welcome check on exposure and the all-weather seals let you venture where other digica...

"Sand Traps," "Coffee Klatch," and "The Storm Has Passed" were chosen as February's winners. Congratulations to Mel Brackstone, Jim Johnston, and John Conway! Catching up slightly, we're also happy to announce the monthly winners of our Photo of the Day contest for February, 2007. (We're on a roll, should have the winners for March selected and announced by the end of next week.) Without further ado, here's a look at February's winners, alo...

"The Cowboy," "Darn Kids," and "All hands on stick" were chosen as January's winners. Congratulations to Edwin S. Loyola, Anupam Pal, and Morris Bennett Altman! In the "very much late is at least a bit better than never" department, we're pleased to present the monthly winners of our Photo of the Day contest for January, 2007. It seems we're perpetually behind on the bread-and-butter work here, but that's no excuse for letting thi...

Extensis today announced free plug-ins to provide the world's most advanced font activation and deactivation for Adobe InDesign and Illustrator CS3 documents. The plug-ins ensure that any time users open an InDesign or Illustrator project, the exact fonts are automatically and accurately activated or deactivated.

Microsoft is offering a technology preview of a new software program called Photosynth, an impressive new technology that may change forever the way we think about digital photos. The Photosynth software takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays then in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. This technology will allow you to "walk" or "fly" through a scene - enabling you to see the scene from virtually any angle, even allowing you to seamlessly zoom in or out of a photo no matter how large or size the original photo was.

Breeze Systems has released the latest version of its image transfer package Downloader Pro. Features new to v2.0 include the ability to tag images with GPS coordinate information as they are downloaded from camera to computer and thumbnail support. The new software has also been updated to run on Windows Vista and includes support for additional file types.

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Panasonic recently announced two all-new High Definition video camcorders designed to keep pace with the continued evolution in video toward larger TV screens and higher definition video content. Even though these models will just start to ship this month Panasonic has already decided to lower prices. Both models will now have an SRP of $1299.95 instead of $1399.95 (HDC-DX1) and $1499.95 (HDC-SD1) as originally announced.

New High Capacity Direct Attached Desktop Hard Drive with Hot-Swappable Drives Delivers Reliable, High Performance Storage For Small Businesses and Others San Diego, March 29, 2007 - Iomega Corporation (NYSE: IOM), a global leader in data storage and protection, today announced the new Iomega® Power Pro Desktop Hard Drive, a 2TB* drive powered by four hot-swappable SATA hard drives with hardware-based RAID security features, giving users a cost-effective...

Montreal QC - ArBa3d today announced the general availability of ArBa3d version 3.0, their 3D-modeling software based on photos. This major release allows to reconstruct a 3d-model from a set of photos, by extracting all its sides. The output has been optimized to reduce the size of the generated model without affecting its visual quality. The enhancements in version 3.0 include improved editing capabilities as well as a more flexible user interface....