The new Nintento DSi has new sleek and stylish look, 3.25 inches screen, twin digital camera, MP3 music player, bettered speakers and a built-in web browser, and audio and player recorder. The special features that founds in this gaming console, are its design, music, photos, and its download and storage capabilities. Its dual cameras feature several modes that let you to stretch photos and change the black and white color photos into color photos.

Another excellent feature found in DSi is games downloaded through Wi-Fi. An SD storage slot in the console, helps to store photos, music and downloaded games.

DSi’s built-in software helps you to listen digital music, photos manipulation, and transfer images to Wii for viewing on your television or exchange them with other DSi owners.

The black colored Nintento DSi is currently only available in Japan, and it is expected to release black and blue colored DSi in North America on April 5th 2009, at the rate of $169.99. In Australia, it will be available from 2nd April 2009 at the cost of $299.

Canon announced release of ten new cameras including its first waterproof model and point-and-shoot cameras with HD video capabilities.

PowerShot SX1 IS for $ 599.99 – The 10 megapixel superzoom camera offers 20x optical zoom, uses wide angle 28mm lens and a CMOS sensor as opposed to a CCD sensor. It comes with the recording capacity of 1080p video at 30 (fps). Europeans have started enjoying it from September 2008, and it will be available in US from April 2009.

PowerShot SX200 IS for $349.99 – It is a less expensive super zoom camera, and offers 3-inch LCD screen, 12x optical zoom and HD video capture of 720p at 30fps.

SD970 IS at $379.99 – The 12-megapixel SD 970 IS is capable of recording HD video of 720p at 30fps, and offers HDMI out, 3-inch LCD screen, 5x optical zoom. It will be available in the market from mid of April 2009.

SD960 IS for $329.99 – It offers 2.8-inch LCD with 230k pixels, 12 megapixels captures and 4x optical zoom, and records 720p videos at 30fps. It will be available in early March.

Canon Elph SD1200 for $229.99. It offers standard-definition video recording, 3x optical zoom, 2.5 inch LCD and 10 megapixel captures. This will be available in mid-March.

PowerShot D10 for $329.99 – This is Canon’s first waterproof camera. It offers waterproof up to 33 feet, freezeproof up to 14 degrees, and Fahrenheit and shockproof up to 4 feet drops as well. It will feature 12 megapixel captures, 3x optical zoom and optical image stabilization. This will come with removable faceplate and specialized straps for mountain climbing. It also offers different colored faceplates, and will be available in market at early May.

A2100 for $249.95 will offer optical image stabilization, 3 inch LCD, 6x optical zoom, 12 megapixels captures. It will be available in the market from early April.

A1100 for $199 is a 12 megapixels camera, and offers optical image stabilization, 2 inch LCD and 4x optical zoom. This will be available in March.

A480 for $129.99 will offer 2.5 inch LCD.

Webstock, a conference for Web professionals, is happening in Wellington New Zealand this week. As usual it’s a classy lineup of speakers and a number of international webheads will be jetting in for the event. They include science fiction author Bruce Sterling, Flickr’s Heather Champ, Social Web designer Joshua Porter, Dopplr’s Matt Biddulph, Institute for the Future’s Jane McGonigal, Six Apart’s David Recordon, The Guardian’s Meg Pickard, NZ Foo Camp’s Nat Torkington, Yahoo’s Tom Coates, online performance artist Ze Frank, and many more.

The Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), a non-profit organization based in Worcester, Massachusetts in the United States, has recently upgraded and released second version of Miro, HD video player which can play almost any video file and offers over 6,000 free internet TV shows and video podcasts.
The notable features of Miro 2.0 are faster performance and torrent downloads, the ability to stream shows from websites like Hulu and YouTube on the sidebar, and the ability to play videos in a separate window. The recent make-over of Miro is not just an update of the application, but a move to keep it stay ahead of its competitors.

Recent report from Amazon: the new version of popular Kindle ebook reader will be introduced at an Amazon event in New York on Monday. Already the first generation Kindle remains on backorder at Amazon’s site, by three to five weeks.

Some of the flaws encountered in the first generation are: it was too bulky, and handled PDFs and other document files less than gracefully. We could expect the second generation Kindle is free from such design flaws.

Ross Rubin, NPD Group director of industry analysis says that “There’s a tremendous opportunity for the first e-book provider that can tap into the textbook market. At the appropriate price, that could transform these devices from frequent-flyer folios into a staple in the homes of students.”

As a result of the Google internet bus project, Google has designed a mobile bus which mainly focuses to create awareness of internet among offline population in the local language. The people who are not having knowledge about internet, Google, Gmail, Google map are mainly targeted.

The mobile bus showcases the features of basic internet; initially they have planned to cover four themes namely education, information, communication and entertainment for the first phase. They started this mobile bus from Chennai and it will cover various cities in Tamil Nadu over the next month and a half.

Good news for graduates
Futurist Ray Kurzweil leads a new school called Singularity University that will explore a time when computers are more intelligent than people. The university will be sited at Nasa’s Ames Research Centre in Silicon Valley, close to Google’s headquarters.

The idea of Singularity University is to assemble graduates from 10 different fields including biotechnology, finance, entrepreneurship, networks, computer system, etc, and offer courses on biotechnology, nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. And to make students look at the same set of problems from different angles.

“The magic of breakthroughs occurs when you have nontraditional thinking around a problem that is stuck,” another founder of University Diamandis said. “It’s when a mathematician works on a biological problem, for example.”The size of future classes will expand to 120 students. Tuition is set at $25,000.
Google has become a sponsor of Singularity University.