Sony Handycam...Wow!

I have long been a fan of Sony's awesome, if somewhat overpriced, imaging gear. Until recently I had only ever owned a Sony digital camera or camcorder until branching out to Panasonic and Toshiba variants.

However, the newest piece of Sony equipment looks lovely...an HD camcorder with a projector built in! It's a terrific idea and it will be curious to see how it works in the real world in terms of projected image quality etc...


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Your move Apple...

The mobile phone space has recently been filled with litigation, particularly relating to industrial design and patents. The big mobile players have been tripping over themselves in courts all over the world trying to establish their attacks on or defence of the intellectual property involved. The following graphic courtesy of The Guardian shows how ludicrous the situation has become.

Apple in particular have been particularly heavy handed assaulting its main system rival Android not by going after Google directly but rather their key partners such as HTC and Samsung. Microsoft too is getting stuck in to Android and now reportedly gets more from the sale of an Android handset than it does from a sale of its own Windows OS devices...

My query here is that Apple, the great consumer device innovators and designers, seem hell bent on stifling innovation in the mobile space. If they had their way and won the lawsuits they have launched, pretty much the only devices left in the market would be Apple devices and their very closed ecosystems. How can this be favourable for the consumer and help promote choice and competition? The patent system is designed to protect IP, not be used as a weapon to smash it and the whole process yet again seems to highlight that the legal system is not fit for 21st century technological developments.

With Google's recent acquisition of Motorola's mobile phone division, this whole digital arms race will likely continue to escalate.