Announcements

Just last year the original Korg Kronos was unveiled, and its intensely spacious sounds, array of nine tone creation engines and SSD architecture delighted the music world, and took it by complete surprise. Korg had offered a similar system in the past (the OASYS), and Kronos came in at...

The VoiceTone Mic Mechanic is a new arrival from TC-Helicon. It’s a pedal box for singers that offers reverb, delay and pitch correction. Any singer who’s ever played at a tiny club with a flat mic, dead acoustics or no sound guy, knows the frustration that comes from singing in this...

Korg’s recently announced TM-50 Combo Tuner Metronome offers both pitch identification and rhythm training in one compact unit. The tuner supports a detection range from C1 to C8 with 12-note equal temperament tuning. It features an ultra-responsive LCD needle type meter display and is...

Nikon has just announced a new 800mm f/5.6 lens to be added to its expanding line of NIKKOR super telephoto lenses. This lens will take its place as the longest lens in Nikon’s lineup, surpassing the AF-S NIKKOR 600mm f/4G ED VR in focal length.

Samsung has just released a new point-and-shoot camera, the EX2F, which bridges the gap between fully manual and fully automated shooting styles. The EXF2 is an ideal companion to photographers who already own a DLSR, but want to have a secondary camera to carry everywhere without...

What does the introduction of the Google Nexus 7 Android tablet mean to the tablet industry as a whole? Paired with the changes in the Android OS, it could mean a lot to players like Amazon, which now has serious competition in their Kindle Fire tablet arena, but it could...

Although it won’t be available until early August, Canon has announced a firmware upgrade for its EOS 7D DSLR camera. Canon is giving it a performance bump with an exciting new upgrade: Firmware Version 2.0.X.

ASUS, well known and widely respected for its work with motherboards, PCs and notebooks, made a leap into the tablet field a while back, and successfully created a critical wave with its top tier, moderately priced tablets. 

It seems everything is going digital these days. Books, movies, music, and even works of art are now being stored in a digital format. While it can be argued that drawing with a mouse requires some skill, it still pales in comparison to a beautifully hand-drawn image.

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So, we've finally found out what all the top secret hush-hush was about over at Microsoft's Los Angeles press gathering yesterday—the ultra-top-secret-promise-not-to-tell announcement was revealed to be—drum roll please—an iPad worthy tablet competitor named simply—The Surface.

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Western Digital has just released its first generation of HD Dual-Band Routers: the My Net N600, My Net N750, My Net N900, My Net N900 Central (1TB), My Net N900 Central (2TB) and My Net Switch.

Sigma has just announced a new wide angle to telephoto zoom lens which covers an ample range of focal lengths, from 18 to 250mm. This broad spectrum of angles of view is further enhanced by a minimum focusing distance of 13.8" (35 cm) across the entire zoom range.

Whether your camera supports FX lenses, DX lenses, or both, Nikon has been busy creating a new lens for each type, and has revealed them to the world today. 

Not to be overlooked amid the glitz and shuffle of Apple’s major WWDC announcements, Apple has also added some great tweaks to its Mac Pro line.

Although not part of the official WWDC announcement, Apple quietly announced an overdue update to the AirPort Express, a Wi-Fi base station that, besides acting as a wireless Internet access point, offers several other useful features.