Lithium-polymer batteries are increasing fiercely

Market demand for lithium-polymer ICOM IC-V8 battery, which are used mainly in products such as tablet PCs or notebooks with ultra-thin designs, is expected to increase significantly as ultra-thin designs are estimated by Intel to be adopted into 40% of consumer notebooks at the end of 2012.

However, since Apple already booked up most of the available lithium-polymer battery capacity in the IT market, players such as Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Acer are currently searching aggressively for new supply sources, according to sources from SAMSUNG i85 battery players.

Due to the supply shortage, prices for lithium-polymer batteries are increasing fiercely with the price in the second quarter already growing over 20% sequentially, but since most downstream PC vendors are focusing on securing supply sources as a priority without caring much about price, battery cell makers in Japan, Korea and China are aggressively expanding their capacity, the sources noted.

The sources pointed out that lithium-polymer Acer Aspire 5735Z Series Battery only have an average of 10% market penetration, but with demand rising rapidly in 2010, the top-two battery makers in Taiwan, Simplo Technology and Dynapack International Technology, already have 20-30% of their shipments being lithium-polymer Fujifilm Finepix f401 Battery in 2011.

Due to lithium-polymer battery's strong flexibility that allows notebooks to feature even lighter and slimmer designs, strong demand from notebook players including HP, Acer, Dell and Asustek Computer, which are aggressively launching ultra-thin notebooks, is expected to increase the battery's penetration quickly.

Apple is currently the only PC brand that largely adopts lithium-polymer IBM THINKPAD T22 ac Adapter battery for its products, while HP, Acer and Asustek only have a small amount of ultra-thin models using the battery due to low availability because of limited production capacity and expensive price. Lithium-polymer batteries are currently 60% more expensive than traditional 18650 drum-type Canon mv550i Battery, the sources added.

According Intel, DigiTimes reports, 40 per cent of all consumer notebooks will be classed as ultrathins by the end of next year. Of course, it's in Intel's interest to burn that number into the public consciousness, having just released new "Sandy Bridge" CPUs specifically suited for ultrathins.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini, speaking at his company's Investors Day last month, extolled the future of ultrathin notebooks, saying that they would "redefine the consumer PC experience.(Dell Inspiron Xps m1710 Battery)" His presentation included a slide displaying a marketeer's dream of the ultrathinnest of ultrathins.

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next blog: Better Batteries Will Save the World

Better Batteries Will Save the World

In the early 1970s, the research arm of Exxon hired a promising young engineer named Michael Stanley Whittingham and asked him to invent something—anything—that could reduce the company's dependence on crude oil. Whittingham and a team holed up at an Exxon R & D lab in New Jersey, and, as engineers are wont to do, started mixing together chemicals to see what would happen. When they injected potassium into the rare metal tantalum, they noticed something extraordinary—the resulting mixture had an extremely high capacity to store energy.
Over the next few months they continued tinkering with various metals. Whittingham's team replaced tantalum with titanium, and because potassium was hazardous to work with, they switched it for lithium. When they were done, Whittingham raced to Exxon's headquarters to report to the board that they'd created something amazing. It was the first lithium-based dell inspiron 1545 battery that worked at room temperature, and it had the potential to upend the entire energy business.
Of course, that didn't happen. Soon came a recession, an oil glut, and the election of Ronald Reagan, which ended a great deal of government funding for research into advanced energy projects. Exxon licensed Whittingham's Dell inspiron 1545 ac adapter battery technology and closed off the division. And for a while, the dream of a perfect Dell inspiron 1521 battery that could replace gasoline was, once again, dead.

This is how it goes in the battery business. As Seth Fletcher, a senior editor at Popular Science, recounts in his engaging new book Bottled Lightning: Superbatteries, Electric Cars, and the New Lithium Economy, scientists have been trying to build a better HP pavilion dv6000 battery since before the days of Thomas Edison (who was a major battery tinkerer himself). (Disclosure: Fletcher and I share the same literary agent.) If we had HP pavilion zd8000 battery that matched the price and performance of fossil fuels, we would not only have cleaner cars, but we might be able to remake much of the rest of the nation's energy infrastructure, too. Wind and solar power are generated intermittently—sometimes the wind doesn't blow and the sun doesn't shine—and TOSHIBA satellite 4015cds battery can moderate that volatility. Stores of batteries placed in the electric grid could collect energy when the sun shines or when the wind blows and then discharge it when we need it. Not to put too fine a point on it, but you might say that the future of the world depends on better batteries—a better battery would alter geopolitics, mitigate the disasters of climate change, and spur a new economic boom.

But a better HP pavilion zd7066ea battery doesn't seem to be in the offing anytime soon. As Fletcher explains, physics, politics, and the price of gasoline have always conspired against the improvement of battery technology. Fletcher's book is hopeful—he investigates a number of promising technologies that might theoretically challenge the dominance of fossil fuels. But many of them are a long way from fruition, and the history of failure in the battery industry doesn't inspire confidence. We might get a better Acer btp-43d1 battery someday, and if we do it will probably come from China, which has become the hub of advanced energy production. But don't hold your breath.
The fundamental problem with ibm thinkpad r40 battery is the existence of gasoline. Oil is cheap, abundant, and relatively easy to transport. Most importantly, it has a high "energy density"—meaning that it's phenomenally good at storing energy for its weight. Today's best lithium-ion TOSHIBA pa3285u-1brs battery can hold about 200 watt-hours per kilogram—a measure of energy density—and they might theoretically be able to store about 400 watt-hours per kilogram. Gasoline has a density equivalent of around 13,000 watt-hours per kilogram.

The only reason electric cars might one day compete with cars that rely on internal combustion is that gasoline engines are highly inefficient; nearly all of the energy stored in gasoline is lost to heat. But gasoline makes up for that flaw with another advantage: When your car's out of gas, you can refill it in a few minutes. With today's electrical infrastructure, HP pavilion dv9000 ac adapter batteries need many hours to recharge. There's some hope that we might one day install fast-charging stations across the country, but the researchers Fletcher interviews point out that this is a daunting challenge. The battery in today's Tesla roadster needs about four hours to charge. If you wanted to charge that Dell latitude d630 battery in 15 minutes, you'd need a 200-kilowatt electric substation feeding the charging station. "Your house takes 1 kilowatt," one expert tells Fletcher. "If you want to have something like a gasoline fuel station that is all electrical, you're talking about multimegawatts of power at that station. And I just don't see that happening."

Neither do I. So what's the answer? Fletcher's book ends with a look at the most far-out research in the Sony vgp-bps8 battery world—the lithium-air battery. In this design, lithium and carbon combine with oxygen from the air to form a system with a staggering potential to store energy. In theory, the lithium-air battery could store 11,000 watt-hours per kilogram, which makes it, Fletcher says, "the best chance battery scientists have to beat gasoline." A lithium-air Sony pcga-bp2v battery could allow a car to drive 500 miles before recharging. With that range, you wouldn't need a nationwide system of quick-charging stations. You could drive pretty much wherever you wanted all day, and then recharge your car at night.

But lithium-air is the cold fusion of the battery world—a would-be game-changer that has the unfortunate downside of being impossible to achieve (probably). Researchers have been working at lithium-air for decades, but there are a number of challenges to overcome before such a HP pavilion dv6000 battery might be commercially viable. For one thing, the system uses lithium metal, which is highly, explosively reactive with water. (In a lithium-ion Dell studio 1735 battery , lithium is combined with another element in the cathode, and it is also present as a salt that's dissolved in a solution.)*Water, of course, is present in the air, so the very idea of a battery that mixes lithium metal with air has always seemed little more than a fantasy. Fletcher reports that the fantasy has become slightly more real lately. A company called PolyPlus has developed a way to coat lithium metal to protect it from moisture, and IBM has launched a research project aimed at building a lithium-air Acer aspire 5720g battery.

But with every advance, there's another hurdle. PolyPlus's innovation makes the lithium metal in a lithium-air battery easy to recharge, but nobody knows, yet, how to recharge such a Sony vgp-bps3 battery. Figuring that out seems destined to take many more years. The chief technology officer of PolyPlus tells Fletcher that it will be "a long time before you see battery packs that are large enough and proven and tested enough that you would start thinking about transportation."
That's the paradox of battery research. Advanced batteries could well solve many of the problems that dog us today. But they'll only come about many, many years from now—and by then, it could be too late.

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next blog: Hai Yu sentenced to 5 years prison for sexual battery

Hai Yu sentenced to 5 years prison for sexual battery

Hai “Howie” Yu was sentenced to five years in prison and one year of probation after pleading guilty to sexual battery (camera battery, laptop battery) and criminal confinement. He will spend 10 years on the sexual offenders registry after his release from prison.

In May 2010, Yu was captured on video dragging a mostly naked, highly intoxicated woman into and out of the laundry room at Foster Magee.

When asked by witnesses if the victim needed help, Yu claimed that she was okay and that she was a friend of his. The two had met at a party that night.

Yu could be seen on video surveillance dragging the victim’s unconscious body into the laundry room.

He later dragged her out and left her on the ground outside, mostly naked. Black lace underwear belonging to the victim were found nearby.

The victim suffered numerous injuries, including bite marks on her back, thumbprints on her shoulders and thighs and bruises on her genitalia. She was treated for hypothermia at the hospital.

“I have been in this business a long time, but I have rarely seen things this shocking,” Monroe County Circuit Judge Teresa Harper said.

During the first hearing, IU Police Department Sgt. Leslie Slone gave a minute-by-minute run-down of the video surveillance as the judge watched it on the prosecution’s laptop.

While Sgt. Slone was showing the video footage to Judge Harper, Harper at one point gasped at the images being depicted on the tape.

This was when Sgt. Slone indicated that the victim was being dragged outside mostly naked. Only the judge, the prosecuting attorneys, the defense attorney and Sgt. Slone could see the video.

During the first of two sentencing hearings, Yu and his mother both offered direct apologies to the victim. Howie Yu, while looking directly at the victim, said, “I hope you can get over this and move on and live your life to the fullest. I sincerely apologize. I can’t believe you’re going through this because of me.”

The victim explained during the first hearing that the incident had changed her relationship with her friends and negatively impacted her relationship with her parents.
“Honestly, they think it’s my fault because I drank. The fact that I had drank should never give someone the power to make a decision for me,” she said as she fought back tears. Her parents did not attend
the hearing.

After the sentence was announced, Yu’s attorney, Joseph Lozano, said it would be disingenuous to complain that the ruling was unfair, especially considering Yu faced the possibility of 40 years at one point during the trial. He also said he wasn’t sure about an appeal right now but said “Judge Harper obviously very carefully considered
her decision.”

Monroe County deputy prosecutor Rebecca Veidlinger said the prosecution was satisfied with the outcome, which was almost exactly in line with what the victim and state requested.

“By getting a guilty plea, we can hold the perpetrator accountable for these actions,” Veidinger said. “It shows that, as a community, we will not accept this behavior and it’s worthwhile for victims to report these cases. The outcome can have a
big benefit.”

— Zach Ammerman contributed to this report

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next blog: Which Camera Phone Should I Buy?

Which Camera Phone Should I Buy?

I still remember my very first camera phone.

It was a Sagem something or other (that wasn’t its actual name) and it boasted a state of the art 2MP snapper.(APPLE MacBook 13-inch A1278 Battery)

I’m kidding of course, the camera on that phone was never ‘state of the art’ but the novelty at the time was unreal.

Fast forward 7 years (where the hell did all that time go) and we’re all being spoilt rotten by the HD snappers built into our touchscreen handsets.(Hp Pavilion dm3 Battery)

In fact, some camera phones are so good, you’d be forgiven for thinking they’re more like phone cameras, as making calls seems almost secondary to the stunning images you’re able to capture.

But which phones currently have the best cameras?

These are the current heavyweights as I see it.

Nokia N8

If you’re after sheer pixel-power, then the 12MP camera wedged into the Nokia N8 should be right up your street.(Canon mv200 Battery)

Suffice to say, pictures are crisp, vivid and jam-packed with detail. And low light won’t slow you down either thanks to the superb Xenon flash that Nokia have kindly supplied you with.

Fringe benefits (i.e. anything other than the awesome camera) include a brilliant Canon Bp-911 Battery, an excellent screen for enjoying your snaps and a premium aluminium shell.

The N8 is a quality handset in nearly every respect, save for the frustrating user interface and below par web experience.

But if you can put up with those things, the camera more than compensates. It’s a beauty.

Sony Ericsson Satio

When the Satio came out last year, the camera was so good that instead of comparing it to other phones, most people chose to compare it to their digital camera.(DOPOD 818 Pro PDA battery)

Hardly seems fair does it?

Still, the picture quality you get with it’s 12.1MP snapper truly is something to marvel at. You’re also offered a huge range of options from touch focussing to a useful LED flash.

Overall, it’s a solid device that feels good in the hand and provides a strong music and video offering alongside the obvious selling point of the HD camera.

The SAMSUNG SCD81 Battery life isn’t particularly good though and the operating system is poor, particularly when coupled with an unresponsive touchscreen.

Samsung Pixon 12

The Pixon 12, like the other two devices is packing a 12MP camera (as you might have deduced from its name).(Hp Compaq Business Notebook 6715b Battery)

Where this particular phone sprints clear of the opposition is in the wealth of settings you’re treated to, including the superb Smart Auto feature.

This basically configures the phone to automatically use the appropriate settings for the picture you want to take, ensuring you get the best result every time.(Sony Cybershot Dsc-t1 Battery)

That’s a great feature for amateur photographers or people who just can’t be bothered to tinker with the settings for every single shot.

So yes, the camera is superb.

Sadly though, much like the Satio, the ORANGE SPV C500 PDA battery life on the Pixon 12 is an issue and it’s not a particularly easy phone to operate. In fact, it’s maddening at times.

The Result

3rd place – The Pixon 12, despite boasting a camera that’s pushes the other two phones all the way and the awesome Smart Auto, loses out due to an atrocious Acer Aspire 4810tzg-414g50mn Battery  and a clumsy OS.

2nd place – There’s a lot to admire about the Satio, not least it’s stunning camera, which produces photos of the very highest quality, but the touchscreen is infuriating at times, so when you’re not using the camera, you might wonder why you ever bought the phone.

1st place – It really had to be the Nokia N8. Why? Well, it’s quite simple really. All three devices have awesome cameras (although I’d argue the flash on the N8 gives it the edge) but Nokia’s phone is far superior in almost every other respect, from the impressive Sony Np-fc11 Battery to the premium build quality, it’s the clear overall winner.

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next blog: Ricoh targets PX camera at outdoor photographers

Ricoh targets PX camera at outdoor photographers

Ricoh has today unveiled the PX, the first in a new series of digital compact cameras designed to be both water and shock resistant.

Ricoh claims that the 16-million-pixel PX can be used at an underwater depth of 3m, for up to one hour, and withstand drops from a height of 1.5m.

Powered by a rechargeable camera battery, the PX sports a 5x optical lens designed to deliver the 35mm viewing angle equivalent of a 28-140mm zoom.

A digital zoom expands zoom power to an equivalent focal length of 1,344mm, adds Ricoh.

Features also include a 2.7in display, subject tracking AF, a Smooth Imaging Engine IV processor and an HD (1280x720 pixels) video function.(Canon NB-5L battery)

Minaturize, Toy Camera and Soft Focus are among the PX's digital filter effect options.

The PX is compatible with the X2-series of Eye-Fi SD memory cards and will go on sale in the UK next month, priced £179.99. (Sony Cybershot DSC-W200 Charger )



RICOH PX Main Specifications, as supplied by Ricoh UK

No. of effective pixels (camera):
Approx. 16.00 million

Image Sensor: (Canon NP-E3 Battery)
1/2.3˝ CCD (approx. 16.40 total million pixels)

Lens:
Focal length: 5–25 mm (35 mm format equivalent: 28–140 mm)
F-aperture: F3.9 (wide-angle) to F5.4 (telephoto)
Shooting Distance: Approx. 3 cm – ∞ (wide-angle), 50 cm – ∞ (telephoto) or 3 cm – ∞ (“Loupe”) (from the front of the lens)
Lens Construction: 13 elements in 10 groups

Zoom: ( Canon MV600I Charger )
Optical: 5× (35 mm format equivalent: 28–140 mm)
Super resolution (SR): 2×, for a combined zoom of 10× (35 mm format equivalent: 280 mm)
Digital: 4.8×, for a combined zoom of 48× (35 mm format equivalent: 1344 mm)
Auto Resize: *1 7.2×, for a combined zoom of 36× (35 mm format equivalent: 1000 mm)

Focus Modes:
Multi AF (contrast-detect AF), spot AF (contrast-detect AF), face-priority multi AF, subject tracking AF (with AF auxiliary light) (Sony NP-F970 Battery)

Blur Reduction:
Image sensor shift image stabilization

Shutter Speed: *2
Photographs: 8, 4, 2, and 1–1/2000 s
Movies: 1/30–1/2000 s

Continuous mode: (DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA DV7000)
Frame rate: *3 Approximately 1 fps

Exposure Control:
Metering: Multi (256 segments)/center-weighted/spot
Mode: Program AE
Exposure Compensation: Manual exposure compensation (–2.0 to +2.0 EV in increments of 1/3 EV)
Exposure Range (auto mode, center-weighted metering): ( Canon Digital IXUS 40 Charger )3.2-17.7EV(wide angle), 4.1-19.4EV(telephoto), (Exposure range for auto ISO calculated using values for ISO 100.)

ISO sensitivity (Standard Output Sensitivity):
Auto, ISO 100, ISO 200, ISO 400, ISO 800, ISO 1600, ISO 3200

Noise reduction:
AUTO

White Balance:
Auto, multi-pattern auto, outdoors, cloudy, incandescent 1, incandescent 2, fluorescent, manual (Sony CCD-TR760E Charger)

Flash:
Mode: Auto, on, off (red-eye reduction option available in camera menus)
Range: Approx. 20 cm – 3.5 m (wide-angle) or 50 cm – 3.0 m (telephoto), measured using auto ISO with a maximum of ISO 1600, measured from the front of the lens)

Picture display: (Sony NP-BG1 Charger)
2.7˝ transmissive LCD monitor with approx. 230,000 dots

Shooting Mode: *4
Normal, movie, premium shot (P, portrait, night portrait, hand-held night scene, party, cooking, sweets, loupe, landscape, beach, snow, sports, fireworks, auction, skew correction, pets, miniaturize, toy camera, high contrast B&W, soft focus, cross processing, black & white, sepia)

Image size (pixels): (Canon NB-3L battery)
Photographs: 4608 × 3456, 4608 × 3072, 3456 × 3456, 4608 × 2592, 3648 × 2736, 2592 × 1944, 2304 × 1728, 1280 × 960, 640 × 480
Movies: 1280 × 720 *5, 640 × 480

Storage media:
SD and SDHC memory cards (up to 32 GB), internal memory (approx. 40 MB); Eye-Fi cards (X2 se-ries) supported

Capacity *5 (40 MB internal memory): (Samsung M110 Charger)
Photographs: 6 (4608 × 3456), 7 (4608 × 3072), 8 (3456 × 3456, 4608 × 2592), 10 (3648 × 2736), 15 (2592 × 1944), 19 (2304 × 1728), 43 (1280 × 960), 169 (640 × 480)
Movies:*6 7 s (1280 × 720), 22 s (640 × 480)

File Format:
Photographs: JPEG (Exif version 2.3) *6
Movies: AVI (Open DML Motion JPEG compliant)
Compression: JPEG baseline compliant

Other notable shooting options: (Canon CB-2LW Charger)
Continuous mode; self-timer with shutter release delay of approximately 10 or 2 seconds and group portrait auto release; framing grid

Other notable playback options:
Multi-frame playback, favourites, privacy settings, resize, skew correction, image cropping, slide shows, DPOF print selection

Interface:(Sony DSC-F828 Charger)
USB 2.0 (High-Speed) mini-B connector, Mass Storage compatible *7, AV output 1.0 Vp-p (75 Ω), HDMI micro output terminal (type D)


Video Signal Format:
NTSC, PAL

Power source: (Canon IXUS 980 IS battery)

One DB-100 rechargeable battery; AC-U1 USB power adapter

Battery life: *8
Approximately 300 shots with DB-100 (Off selected for Sleep Mode) *9

Dimensions (W × H × D): (Canon BP-511 battery)
100 mm × 55 mm × 21.3 mm

Weight:
Approx. 156 g (includes memory card and supplied battery)
Approx. 136 g (camera only)

Water and dust resistance:(Canon NB-2LH Charger)
Class 8 JIS/IEC water resistance, class 6 JIS/IEC dust resistance (IP68); can be used underwater to a depth of 3 m for up to 60 minutes at a time

Operating temperature:
0 °C to 40 °C

• 1. VGA images only.
• 2. Upper and lower limits vary according to shooting and flash mode.
• 3. As measured by RICOH using a Panasonic PRO HIGH SPEED 8 GB SDHC Class 10 memory card. Frame rate and maximum number of frames vary with shooting conditions and with the type and condition of the storage de-vice.
• 4. The options available vary with image size.(Canon PowerShot A3000 IS battery)
• 5. Individual movies may be up to 4 GB in size or 29 minutes in length.
• 6. Compatible with the Design Rule for Camera File System (DCF, a JEITA standard) and Digital Print Order Format (DPOF). Full compatibility with other devices is not guaranteed.
• 7. Mass Storage is supported under Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OSX 10.1.2–10.6.6. (Samsung BP70A Battery)
• 8. Measured according to CIPA standard. For reference only; actual number of shots varies greatly according to how camera is used.
• 9. Approximately 320 shots can be taken when 10 seconds is selected for Sleep Mode.

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next blog: Build Your Own Google Chrome OS Laptop For Under £200

Build Your Own Google Chrome OS Laptop For Under £200

Kogan announced the launch of a Chromium OS laptop a few days ago, which comes with an open source version of Google's Chrome OS but also lacks some of the distinctive hardware features of real Chrome OS laptops like dedicated keys, ( HP Mini 110 Battery) hardware encryption and an onboard 3G modem.
So we looked into the building blocks that are necessary to build a Chromium laptop and surprisingly enough, you'd be able to build you own Chromium computer for under £200 by going through the following steps.
First, buy this Hannspree 12 HANNSbook laptop; it is currently on sale for £190 at Misco; (COMPAQ PROSIGNI A165 DC Adapter ) granted it is a refurbished model but it comes with a full 12 months warranty and is in pristine condition.
The laptop boasts a superior set of components compared to the CR-48, the two official Chrome OS laptops or the Kogan model (ed: you will have to get a 32GB SSD like the OCZ Technology 32GB Onyx at £47 [buy-laptop-battery.org] for an enhanced Chromium experience). There's a dual core Intel Pentium SU4100 model runninng at 1.3GHz with 2MB cache, there's also 2GB DDR3 memory, a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 12.1-inch WSVGA screen, Wi-Fi, 802.11 WiFi, HDMI, three USB ports, a 5200mAh Sony Np-f330 Battery with a six hour TOSHIBA Laptop AC Adapter battery life and much more.

Then, start up the laptop, download the latest USB image here and follow the instructions here to download and install Chromium OS on a USB key (you can get a 512MB SD card from Morgan for £2 including free delivery). Getting the OS to install on the laptop takes less than 30 minutes but may request a change in the boot sequence (from HDD to the USB drive).(Panasonic Lumix Dmc-fz3 Battery)
(ed: Another alternative laptop is the Asus UL30A which comes with a higher price tag at £300 but also 50 per cent more memory, an even better hard disk drive, an integrated 3G modem as well as Asus's one year global hardware warranty).

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next blog: On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive

On the road with a camera, an iPad, and a Hyperdrive

A quick iPad tip: Turkish Dolmuşes—van-sized mini buses that provide inexpensive regional travel—are too shaky and bumpy for accurate typing on an iPad. I know this because I’m trying to type this while riding on a Dolmuş.

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• I’m heading toward the start of the Lycean way, a roughly 300-mile hike that winds through the villages of Anatolia. (Canon NB-1LH battery)Because this will be a backpacking and photography excursion, I’m trying to travel as light as possible. As such, I’ve left my 13-inch MacBook Air at home, and have decided to bring only my iPad, my cameras, and a HyperDrive.

This was not an easy decision. While I knew the iPad would be fine for reading email and browsing the web, I was worried about where I was going to offload images, and whether I could do without a full photo workflow. (Samsung ST60 Battery )On the upside, I knew I would be traveling with a mid-sized backpack, so the iPad’s lighter weight, and durability was a big appeal.

iPad versus the 11-inch MacBook Air

Because the point of my trip is to shoot photos for work (they go into books, articles, and classes), I have some photography-specific computing needs:

Storage: I am traveling in Turkey for 21 days, shooting raw files with both a 21 megapixel SLR, and a 12-megapixel point-and-shoot. As such,(Canon MV700 battery) I’ll need a place to dump images, and my iPad 2’s 16 GB of RAM just isn’t going to cut it. A 64 GB iPad would also be too little, even if I were to leave it free of any media or apps.
Image Editing: I don’t need to do a lot of high-end image editing, as I can easily wait until I get home to do “real” editing, such as black and white conversion, HDR merging, and selective edits (yes, I know there are tools to do this on the iPad, but they’re just not up to pro-level snuff). But I do need to be able to prepare a handful of images for publication, (Sony NP-FH70 Battery)and I would like to be able to perform some rough edits on a few images, simply to see if I’m getting the images I think I’m getting.
Delivery: Finally, I have to be able to get these images to the relevant editors. In addition, I’ll want to send the occasional image-laden email to friends.
The iPad was only able to meet all of these specific needs thanks to a few pieces of ancillary gear.

Setting up the HyperDrive

With the iPad’s paltry storage, I knew I’d need some kind of Fujifilm NP-40 Battery-powered hard drive. There are devices for backing up images in the field, such as the 250GB Digital Foci Photo Safe ($130), but there’s no screen for viewing images, and there is no way to get the files out of the Photo Safe and onto the iPad if you want to edit or share them.

The HyperDrive iPad Hard Drive, like the Photo Safe, is a Panasonic NV-DS15 Battery-powered hard drive with media slots for Memory Stick, SD, and CompactFlash cards. I bought the enclosure-only option ($249) and stuck in my own 750GB drive. What makes the HyperDrive unique is that you can plug it into the iPad via Apple’s iPad Camera Connection Kit ($29). When you select iPad mode, the HyperDrive prompts you to select a folder, and then it makes that folder visible to the iPad just as if it were a camera being connected. (Canon MV700 battery)In other words, the Photos application pops up on the iPad, and all of the images in the folder on the HyperDrive become visible. You can then select the ones you want to import.
The HyperDrive includes a 3-inch screen that allows you to review your images on the hard drive after transferring them from your memory cards, and to select specific images to transfer. It also provides an easy-to-use interface for the HyperDrive’s more advanced features. For example, by selecting the Manager option, you can manage the files that you’ve already copied to the drive. (Sony NP-FH70 Battery)You can delete, copy, or move files. Although the interface to these options is a little clunky, they’re not operations that you’re likely to perform that often.
The HyperDrive is a great solution for iPad storage problems. You can dump huge batches of images onto it, but only pull in a handful to your iPad that you want to edit or review, or that you need to submit for work or send to friends. (Sony Cyber-shot DSC-W55 Charger)I didn’t realize until I was on the road that my particular unit had a bad SD port, but I was able to work around this by plugging the camera directly into the HyperDrive via its USB port.

Editing Images on the iPad

With my storage problem solved, I now have the option of editing any image that I’ve shot at any time during the trip. (Fujifilm FinePix J30 Charger )I can browse images on the HyperDrive to zero in on the folder that the image is stored in, and then connect the HyperDrive to the iPad to import the images I want.
For the actual editing, I use a handful of different applications. The bulk of my editing operations are performed in PhotoGene ($3), an excellent image editor for both the iPad and iPhone. Because of its small screen size, touch-based interface, and lack of screen profiling, ( Canon CB-2LW Charger)you shouldn’t expect to do heavy image editing on the iPad. But cropping, basic tonal adjustments, and white balance correction are definitely doable.

PhotoGene

PhotoGene has a very good, streamlined interface that makes it easy to perform these adjustments. In the Adjustments panel, you can use sliders to alter Exposure, Contrast, Saturation and Temperature, while adaptive shadow and highlight controls make it easy to brighten up shadows, or darken highlights. (Canon EOS-D60 battery)A full Levels adjustment, with Histogram makes more sophisticated tonal adjustments a snap, while for those who prefer it, there’s an excellent Curves tool.

If you’re shooting raw, note that PhotoGene does not perform highlight recovery, so if you’re hoping to pull detail back into a sky, or recover any other bright highlight, you won’t be able to.
Unfortunately, PhotoGene won’t let you perform selective edits. (Canon EOS Kiss X4 battery)For that, I use FilterStorm ($4). In FilterStorm, any edit can be painted on using a paint brush, making it easy to selectively alter any part of an image. FilterStorm also provides a channel-mixer for performing black and white conversions, something else PhotoGene won’t do. If you’d prefer to choose a single editor, go with PhotoGene. I keep them both around, and turn to FilterStorm for black and white conversion and selective editing.
AutoStitch ($1) is an excellent panoramic stitching application for the iPhone, which runs just fine on the iPad. There’s little to say about it other than it works, and it works fast and well.(Canon NB-5L battery) Point it to the images in your panorama, and it will stitch them together into a seamless, complete, very wide image (assuming you’ve done a good job of exposing and panning your original shots).
ProHDR ($2) is another iPhone app that transfers to the iPad with no problem. It allows for the creation of HDR images from two source files. Canon NB-4L battery While the results aren’t as good as what I can get using HDR software on my Mac, for quick-and-dirty merges—both to get an idea of whether a shot works, and to generate images to send home—it works great.
When I’m done with my image editing, I save the JPEG files to the iPad’s Photos app, and then erase the raw file in the Photos app. I still have the raw file on the HyperDrive, so by storing only JPEGs of my finished images, I maximize the use of the iPad’s storage. (Canon EOS 5D battery)Ultimately, when I get home, I’ll re-edit many of the images in Photoshop.
After transferring images to the HyperDrive, I leave them on the card and go to the next empty card. When it’s full, I transfer and move on to the next card. I don’t start reusing cards until my entire collection is full, and then I start reusing with the smallest card first. This affords me a tiny bit of redundancy—my most recent images will still be on the cards if something happens to the drive.

Communication and photo sharing

Verbatim 97537 Bluetooth Mobile Keyboard

I’ve given up on trying to type while riding on a bouncy Dolmuş, and am now working from solid ground. For long articles, I’ve also given up on typing on the iPad’s on screen keyboard, as it’s just too finicky, and I miss having a tab key. Instead, I’m using an iGo Stowaway Ultra Slim keyboard. This excellent keyboard folds in half to collapse down to a very small 4 by 3-inch package, and connects to the iPad via Bluetooth. It’s powered by two AAA Canon EOS 5D battery, and I find it can go for a few months on a set of rechargeable Canon BP-511 battery. Unfortunately, it’s also no longer made, but you can usually find them on eBay for a fairly reasonable price. A similar product that is available is the Verbatim 97537 Bluetooh Mobile Keyboard ($80).

AT&T’s roaming rates are even more ridiculous than its domestic fees, so I jailbroke and unlocked my iPhone 4. Upon arriving in Istanbul, I went to a Vodacom store and purchased a SIM card with phone service and a month of unlimited data for about sixty dollars. (Canon LP-E10 battery)This gives me a local phone number, and I can put money on the card for phone calls and text messages. Adding time to the card is incredibly easy, and there are Vodacom locations all over the country.
There’s also 3G support in most places here, and where you can’t get 3G, there’s usually Edge. What’s more, 3G and Edge are much faster here than any that I’ve experienced in the US.
Because the phone is jailbroken, I can run MyWi ($10), an excellent tethering application which turns the phone into a Wifi hot spot, connected to the Internet via the phone’s data connection. (Canon NB-2LH Battery)So, I can easily activate MyWi to create a hot spot, and then select that network on the iPad, and the iPad is online.

How it’s working out

So far, the whole scheme is working, and I have not regretted leaving my MacBook Air behind. Sure, there are times when I’d like to see what an image would look like if I could recover some overexposed highlights, or to see how it might look converted to black and white with Nik's Silver Efex, but for the most part, I’d prefer not to be looking at a screen, or editing images while traveling in this wonderful country.(Sanyo DB-L40 Battery)the bit of editing that I need to do, the iPad and HyperDrive combo is working great, and doesn’t take up much room.

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