Category: Samsung

Stanford boffins develop Lithium Ion battery with built in fire extinguisher

John Aldred

Lithium based batteries power a lot of stuff these days. Phones, cameras, laptops, and even vehicles. There’s a lot of “best practise” advice out there when dealing with Li-Ion and Li-Po batteries, but it’s not common knowledge. Most consumers don’t know how to look after their batteries. Or that there even are suggested ways to […]

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Dropbox Just Deleted 2000 Files Because of My Samsung Phone

JP Danko

I have been using Dropbox for years now and I have never once had a problem with it…until a week ago when over 2000 files mysteriously vanished from my Dropbox account. For the record, I love Dropbox – to the point where Dropbox is now integral to running my business – here are two examples: Dropbox Lightroom Catalog […]

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Samsung’s new SD card will let you record up to 12 hours of 4K UHD footage

John Aldred

Samsung Electronics, have unveiled their newest memory card, a massive 256GB microSD, raising the bar for super small storage formats by a pretty impressive amount, beating out the previous record held by SanDisk’s 200GB microSD card. With the proliferation of data collecting devices like 4K cameras, 360 degree video recorders, action cams and drones which can quickly accumulate very […]

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Samsung Enters the 360 Degree Camera Market With the Samsung Gear 360. Mark Zukerberg Supports

John Aldred

Looking more like a giant eyeball than a camera, Samsung have today entered into the 360 degree arena with the announcement of the Samsung Gear 360 camera. Two lenses seems to be becoming the standard when it comes to 360 degree cameras, as opposed to bolting half a dozen cameras on a rig, and Samsung’s new camera conforms […]

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Adorama, Best Buy list Samsung NX lenses at ‘closeout’ prices, further lending credit to its death

Gannon Burgett

Further confirming the slow, painful demise of Samsung cameras, both Adorama and Best Buy have almost every Samsung NX lens listed at ‘closeout’ prices, including some third party glass. It all began as a rumor, tossed around in the latter parts of Summer 2015. Since then, the rumors became reality when Samsung announced it was killing […]

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