Best of CES 2012 At one end of the scale, CES is about big, high-end product announcements – the world’s biggest TV, the smallest pico projector, hi-fi speakers that cost more than your car. Or are bigger than your car . At the other end it’s about companies you’ve never (or barely) heard of trying to catch the tired eye of a wandering blogger with head-mounted displays, portable scanners and USB penknives. Filter out the noise with our pick of the best gadgets and tech of CES 2012
The problem with tech is that the really cool stuff doesn’t usually turn up. From the jetpacks we were promised as kids to Intel’s latest concept PCs , what we actually end up with tends to be considerably more mundane – Ryanair instead of jetpacks, or incremental improvements on kit we’ve already got. The iPhone was the exception.
What’s big, hot and makes everybody gasp? That’s right: CES, the consumer electronics industry’s annual beanfeast and arguably the world’s greatest technology showcase. As ever, it’s happening in Las Vegas – and, as ever, the best way to enjoy it is to be as far from Las Vegas as humanly possible. While some 140,000 attendees will battle one another to get hold of the hottest new gadgets, you’ll be able to get the skinny from the comfort of your sofa thanks to our cunningly named Techradar @ CES news hub.
HPR-Solutions Longtime Exposure Calculator Longtime Exposure Calculator Price: Free/ Available for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad Long-exposure photography fanatics will know that an ND filter can be essential when it comes to extending exposure time for those all-important open shutter shots. Longtime Exposure Calculator by HPR-Solutions is a free iPhone , iPad and iPod touch app that enables you to dial in a projected shutter speed to one column and then ‘add’ an ND filter as graded in both f/stops and filter names (eg 3 stop or ND8) in the other column. The app then calculates the adjusted exposure. While it is, in part, possible to TTL meter with an ND filter attached to the front of a camera’s lens, the results won’t always be accurate, and there’s a point where things get so dark that it’s not possible – especially with in-vogue super-dense filters
CES 2012: Home Entertainment The world’s greatest tech show – CES 2012 – kicks off on Monday (if you’re a show obsessive, note that’s a week later than usual). Running until Thursday, the show will see the entire tech world descend on Las Vegas. We’ll be hearing from the biggest names in tech to talk about their plans for 2012