The agency is also sweetening the deal by requiring manufacturers to seek only a single PMA for an entire range of AEDs intended for lay users (and another PMA for professional devices).
The professional devices are more expensive, he acknowledged, but they will save truckers and taxpayers money in the long run by preventing damage to vehicles and infrastructure and by preventing traffic jams.
Marketed as mini-me professional devices, the gadgets often come with hefty price tags and the promise of results that sound too good to be true: a skin care brush that reduces wrinkles, a hair removal unit no bigger than an iPod that beams away unwanted hair, a slender malletlike skin plumper that creates a more youthful appearance.
The hardware is finally at a level where Apple can deliver real performance in the slim frame, and customers have expressed interest in using iMacs as professional devices.
Along with professional devices, the timing is also right to unveil some last-minute devices just in time for the holidays.
In fact, many held it up as the standard to beat for more expensive cameras and supposedly more professional devices, including even the much more expensive 5D Mk II.
So, no 4K, which, as you've no doubt guessed, means this is far from a professional device.
Palm as just released their much anticipated – and leaked – Treo Pro, a Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional device with a touchscreen and UMTS/HSDPA GSM networking.
The Disposable Film Festival is a 4-day screening, panel, and workshop extravaganza that launched in 2007 to highlight the creative potential of amateur filmmakers who use non-professional devices like camcorders, cell phones, point-and-shoot cameras, webcams, and other "disposable" devices to record their stories.
With roughly 350,000 unique visitors per month, the site offers over 1,800 products – including a number of professional telephone devices and equipment (conference call devices, wireless devices, bluetooth kits,…) from well-known brands, like Panasonic, Philips, Polycom, Alcatel, etc.
"I guess you could say it's one more example of professional, insider devices being democratically diffused and embraced by the quasi-masses," Kurt Andersen, the journalist and cultural critic said via e-mail.
