Sony has launched a new mega-capacity Cybershot DSC-T2 digital camera.

The camera features huge memory of 4GB, eliminating the need of carrying memory cards.

The Sony Cybershot DSC-T2 is an 8 Megapixel silver-framed thin point and shoot style camera with a black framed touch panel LCD screen for most controls, 3X optical non-extruding zoom lens with a sliding lens cover and faceplate available in blue, green, pink, white or black, that can store approximately 1,000 full sized 8 megapixel images within the cameras own memory.

In the DSC-T2, Sony has made managing photos easy with the Picture Motion Browser software. Images can be viewed in chronological order or can be seen by naming a folder according to a particular event. Photos can also be moved to the camera’s “favorites” folder for easy access. In “favorites” folder, users can also arrange it in further six sub-folders.

The T2 model is installed with Sony PMB Portable software, which automatically runs when the device is connected to a compatible PC via the supplied USB cable. This application allows users to publish their photos and videos directly to photo sharing sites.

The Sony T2 also has many other great features found in most of Sony’s Cybershot camera including Face Detection Technology, Optical Image Stabilization, High ISO Low Light shooting capability and 1080P high definition output, which allows the T2 to be connected and viewed on a high definition television set with slideshow features.

The Cybershot DSC-T2 digital camera is slated to ship in December and will be available in the US.My digital Life

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Never ride on boat before? Try this then!!

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Scientists are cooking up new devices to make your kitchen more efficient - and more fun

Matt Mason has seen the future - and it’s fun. As director of the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in the US, Mason likes thinking about how machines could make our lives easier by doing the tasks we hate, such as cleaning. When it comes to kitchen, he’s confident that within a few decades, robots will be doing most of the boring work, freeing us to relax.

“We think of the kitchen as a place for chores,” says Mason. “But we’re in the process of discovering it as a place we can enjoy.”

So unless you really love to clean, you won’t have to. And the revolution has already begun: the iRobot company has given us the Roomba robotic vacuum, and recently unveiled the Scooba, which vacuums, wet-scrubs and dries hard floors all at once.

Robotic floor cleaners of the future could take different forms, says Dan Kara of Robotics Trends, which tracks developments in automation. He envisions a hard-floor cleaning system that’s built into the wall; it would blow debris to a part of a room where it would be sucked up by a vacuum. Then the system would spray the floor with cleaner, and an arm would mop it up. “This is sheer speculations, of course,” Kara explains, “but you could program it to come on at 3 a.m., and it would just wet-mop the floor for you.”

Ecokitchens

More than just fun, future kitchens will be environmentally friendly. Bruce Beihoff, director of Corporate Innovation and Technology at Whirlpool, foresees appliance systems that recycle energy lost from your oven to heat the kitchen, your water, even the entire room. “We have things like this running in our labs today,” he says.

Your dirty dishwater could also be reused. “It could be sanitise and recycled through a filter.”

The Joy of Cooking

New culinary technologies will also make you look smarter in the kitchen. The best cooks know that an evenly heated skillet is crucial to the perfect sauté: enter Whirlpool’s experiment stovetop, the “powdered bed”. Using microwave-heated ceramic chips instead of an electric element or gas, the system heats pans with near-perfect balance and temperature control. “It gives you extremely even heating,” says Bruce Beihoff. “Maybe ten or 20 times better than the best pan you can buy today.”

Researchers at Whirlpool are also testing an oven that will let you roast a skinless chicken to crispy perfection. “You’d still get the beautiful aesthetics in taste and appearance,” says Beihoff, “but you’d be able to cut back on fat.”

Paul Leuthe of Wolf Appliance Company believes that induction stovetops will be de riguer. They use a magnetic field to heat up pans, bringing water to the boil in half the time it takes now, and also allowing for slow cooking.
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In 1966, the board game “What Shall I be? The Exciting Game of Career Girls” hit the shelves. The aim of the game was to be the first player to become a career girl. To win, you had to collect four school cards of one profession, two subject cards and two personality cards that were suitable for that profession. And what stellar professions did the winner stand to become? A teacher, airline hostess, actress, nurse, model and a ballet dancer.

It goes without saying that the exciting game of career girls has changed heaps in the past 40 years. We’re invading the workplace and even in formerly male-dominated industries like engineering, we’re strutting in with our power suits and Louboutin heels. According to the Ministry of Labour, 51 percent of women in Singapore are in the workforce, a figure not too far from other developed nations such as the US and UK, which has 56 and 53 percent of women working respectively. Despite these positive trends, we haven’t transcended gender-stereotyped limits entirely. While our real-life Game of Career Girls has expanded to include doctor, executive and a whole array of topnotch jobs, when it comes to who sits at the top of that career ladder, we’re still Barbie girls stuck in Ken’s world. Check this out: Out of the Fortune 500 companies of 2007, an annual ranking of the largest corporations in America, only 12 are led by women.

This isn’t to say that being female by default means being at the losing end. Anne Cummings, an associate professor of management at the University of Minnesota who has studied organisational behaviour and leadership styles, found that employees ranked traditionally feminine qualities of being relationship-oriented, diplomatic and good at communication as being important in leaders. However, despite this, female leaders were consistently perceived as less effective than their male counterparts. “Men are still perceived as better leaders and it has to do with what is deemed desirable in a man and in woman,” Cumming argues. Another study conducted by the University of Maine’s Business School confirms these attitudes. As much as some feminine traits were seen as desirable in employees, in leaders, socialisation and communication skills weren’t seen in the same light.

So what are these gender differences and how do they affect the way our superiors, subordinates and peers perceive our capabilities? According to a survey conducted by Development Dimensions International (DDI) on leadership, while male and females don’t differ much in capabilities, they do show significant differences in the way they feel about their skills and other workplace issues, in particular taking on positions of higher power and huger responsibilities. Explaining why these gender differences exist is tricker but to a large extent, that isn’t the point. Whether these differences are cases of nature versus nurture, sitting around contemplating why it is the case won’t get us any nearer to where we want to be individually and collectively as women.

If we are to emerge victorious in this battle of the sexes, it’s worth acknowledging that with a playing field currently dominated by men, the rules, to a certain extent, are set by them and who gets to be a star player will be judged against a set of criteria that might not include our feminine instincts. There’s no point in being the best ballerina in rugby match. But that doesn’t mean achieving success means becoming a man. The key is to reap the best of both worlds, so that your feminine instincts and masculine habits symbotically inform each other. Here are some of the most common mistakes women unknowingly make their jobs and how you can deal with them like a man.
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