LG makes every product under the sun. You name it, LG probably mass produces it. LG also enjoys marketing bizarre combination of electronic equipment. Take this 8″ portable DVD player, the LG DP889. Little excessive on the numbers, don’t you think?

Well, this portable DVD player not only works as a normal CD player but it also happens to be a digital photo-frame. Now, when you aren’t watching The Dark Knight on it, you can gawk at family photos as you dream of days past. It’s compatible with a plethora of formats, including DVD video/DVD±R/DVD±RW/Audio CD/CD-R/CD-RW, ensuring nearly any burned disc will work. It’s priced at $200, making it the most diverse digital photo-frame in existence and while, not quite as compact and portable as the Panasonic LF-P968C DVD burner, it’s certainly getting there.

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In yesteryear, we’d be playing Rad Racer with those chunky black glasses with the blue and red lenses thinking all along, “Wow this is real 3-D! The cars just jump out at me, man!” However, this is not the case. The company Holografika has created “HoloVizio” technology which provides multiple viewers with a three-dimensional display that changes as people shift their perspective of the screen.

Holografika claims that most of the three-dimensional gizmos on the market are not true 3-D as they do not meet the following criteria:

• No glasses needed, the 3D image can be seen with unassisted naked eye
• Viewers can walk around the screen in a wide field of view seeing the objects and shadows moving continuously as in the normal perspective. It is even possible to look behind the objects, hidden details appear, while others disappear (motion parallax)
• Unlimited number of viewers can see simultaneously the same 3D scene on the screen, with the possibility of seeing different details
• Objects appear behind or even in front of the screen like on holograms
• No positioning or head tracking applied
• Spatial points are addressed individually

The HoloVizio does not try to fool the brain into thinking it’s seeing a three-dimensional image, but rather attempts to recreate the properties of a window, a two-dimensional surface that displays shifts in perspective and changes in light pattern. With this technology in your household, watching “Brazil” just got a heck of a lot more interesting.
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Those who switch from normal digital cameras to dSLR have taken live-view LCDs for granted, a lot of them have even expressed disappointment having realized that almost all dSLR in the market do not have live-view LCDs, you would need to poke into the view-finder in order to know what you’re framing. Olympus has released 1 or 2 dSLRs with live-view LCDs, however the result was not the best according to various professional review sites.

The problem is not about simply buying the Olympus camera, but the hassle to change all your lenses and flashlights to a different brand. Korean company Seculine has been selling the live-view LCDs that can be attach to almost all dSLRs in the market, now they came back with an upgrade- the Zig View S2 which improves a lot upon the older version. The 2″ 230,000 pixels LCD will display the live image caught by the CCD attached to the viewfinder on your dSLR (comparing to the older Zig View which used CMOS), so you don’t have to peep through the hole anymore, you will also have a lot more flexibility when it comes to shooting angle.

Thanks to the double hinges, the LCD can flip 180 degrees vertically (up, down) and 315 degrees horizontally (left, right). The battery can last up to 2 hours non top per charge. Dimensions are 67×21x110mm (85g). The Zig View S2 will be retailed in March for 540USD. More shots after the jump.

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