Gear News of the Week: There’s Yet Another New AI Browser, and Fujifilm Debuts the X-T30 III

An more and more well-liked answer is the inclusion of a photo voltaic panel to maintain that battery topped up, enabling you to put in and doubtlessly by no means contact the digicam once more. Both Wyze and TP-Link simply revealed fascinating solar-powered cameras this week. Let’s discuss Wyze first.

The Wyze Solar Cam Pan ($80) is a 2K out of doors safety digicam that may pan 360 levels and tilt 70 levels. It is IP65-rated, straightforward to mount, and sports activities a small photo voltaic panel that Wyze reckons can hold the digicam working on only one hour of daylight a day (we will see as I take a look at by means of the grey depths of a Scottish winter). The Solar Cam Pan additionally options AI-powered individual monitoring, two-way audio, shade night time imaginative and prescient, a highlight, and a siren, although you want a subscription, ranging from $3 monthly, to unlock good options and get cloud video storage.

Wyze additionally introduced a brand new, impressively reasonably priced Battery Video Doorbell ($66). We began testing Wyze cameras once more not too long ago after it beefed up its security policies, however the repeated safety breaches, exposing thousands of camera feeds to other customers, should still provide you with pause.

Meanwhile, TP-Link is the primary producer to mix solar energy with floodlight functionality in its new Tapo C615F Kit. The similar-looking however bigger Tapo C615F is one other 2K digicam, but it surely pans 360 levels, tilts 130 levels, and, most significantly, has an adjustable 800-lumen floodlight.

TP-Link says its photo voltaic panel solely wants 45 minutes of solar a day to maintain the digicam ticking, and it comes with a useful 13-foot cable, so you’ll be able to set up the photo voltaic panel in the perfect spot to catch these rays. The Tapo C615F ($100) is on the market now, and you should utilize the promo code 10TAPOFLDCAM to get $10 off in the event you’re fast. —Simon Hill

Fujifilm Updates Its X-T30 Line

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Fujifilm has launched the X-T30 III, an replace to the corporate’s entry-level, SLR-shaped mirrorless X-T30 line. The third iteration of the X-T30 pairs Fujifilm’s acquainted 26-MP X-Trans APS-C sensor with the newest Fujifilm processor, the X-Processor 5. The latter implies that the X-T30 III is now roughly the identical because the X-M5 and X-T50 when it comes to inner options. All of Fujifilm’s movie simulations can be found, as are the subject-recognition AF modes. Video specs additionally see a bump as much as 6.2K 30 fps open gate, and 4K 60 fps with a 1.18X crop.

The physique is almost equivalent to the earlier mannequin; the scale, weight, and button/dial format are the identical as on the X-T30 II. The one change is that the management dial is now a movie simulation dial, with three choices for customized movie recipes. The X-T30 III goes on sale in November at $999 for the physique, or $1,150 for the physique and a brand new 13- to 33-mm F3.5-6.3 zoom lens (20 mm- to 50 mm-equivalent). —Scott Gilbertson

Intel’s AI Experience Stores

In time for the height purchasing season, Intel is launching quite a lot of “AI Experience Stores” at a number of key places world wide. We do not know precisely what they’re going to be like, however Intel says these pop-ups will embrace an “AI-powered shopping experience” of some type and are primarily based on the preliminary launch of the trial run store in London final yr.

If it retains that very same design ethos intact, these shops will likely be pretty immersive experiences. There will likely be a lot of AI-driven demos on gadgets from the broader Windows laptop computer ecosystem, presumably to assist drive curiosity and curiosity in what PCs can do. Interestingly, it comes on the again of a major advertising push by Microsoft with its new Windows 11 AI experiences, attempting to persuade patrons to improve and clarify a few of the new AI options.

Here are the dates and places beneath for when Intel’s shops will likely be open. —Luke Larsen

• New York City: 1251 sixth Avenue (10/29 to 11/30)
• London: 95 Oxford Street (10/30 to 11/30)
• Munich: Viktualienmarkt 6 (10/30 to 12/9)
• Paris: 14 Boulevard Poissonniere (11/4 to 11/30)
• Seoul: OPUS 407, 1318-1 Seocho-dong (10/31 to 11/30)