I linked to the Slidoo website a couple of times but it’s about time to explain you why I am doing it…it’s actually a new SAR and 43rumors creation.

Eight months ago we rumors guys decided to develop a new website that might be useful for you. It’s an easy eBay search and notification service named Slidoo.com. I guess most SAR readers do use eBay to search and find stuff. Slidoo is an eBay approved application that has full and fast access to their database.

The reason why we did Slidoo are:
1) With the sliders it’s much easier to set price and condition of the search. And results do change live while you slide! No need to wait until page gets reloaded.
2) The use of real time sliders helps you to compare different kind of searches (for example by switching from “used” to “new” you easily get an idea of the price difference).
3) Once you have set you search parameters you can save the search and get notified when a new product pop ups within the settings.
4) Also eBay offers a saved search service but a) it’s difficult to manage (to have to click through two times before to see the list) b) you cannot set the notification parameters. On Slidoo you can chose to get notified in different ways (email-facebook-twitter-or nothing) and with different frequency (once per day, multiple times per day and never).

Example of some Sony searches I stored:
Sony RX1 (Click here). I did set a minimum price of $910 to cut off all that cheap Asian accessories I don’t need. Once an auction breaks the $910 barrier I will get notified. Easy! Recently I found some RX100 cameras for less than $600 and I saved the search with “new” and “buy it now” conditions.

Login and set your country:
Of course you can set a different country for your basic search. Just login to change it for example to UK or Germany in the notification settings page. If you set Germany than the Location slider will adapt and you will have the “Germany-Europe-Worldwide” options while as USA you have “USA-North America-Worldwide”.

It’s Beta! What’s coming next:
The service is still in beta testing and I would invite you to join and test it. You can quickly become member using your same facebook or twitter account. So you will not have to keep in mind new login and password data.

This is a fast changing site and a Slidoo Amazon version is coming too! Tablet and Phone version will follow in Spring. Feedback is welcome and you can send it to contact.slidoo@gmail.com. You don’t know how many nights we spent to think on this. I really hope you will find it practical and useful for a daily use! Link to the webiste: Slidoo.com.

Thanks!
Andrea and the other guys and ladies that worked on this (Ale, Melle, Elena, Mate and Richard).

We are almost done with 2012!

Before the end of the world comes (Maya) I want to know what is the camera that excited you most! Is it the [shoplink 14165]A99[/shoplink]? The first professional stills and video hybrid camera. Or the excellent [shoplink 14158]A57[/shoplink] which packs a lot of features for the relatively low price. Than we have the [shoplink 14167]NEX-6[/shoplink], the cheaper [shoplink 8454]NEX-7[/shoplink] that has some nice features the NEX-7 has not. The Sony [shoplink 15824]RX1[/shoplink]? An innovative and super small Full Frame camera. Or the [shoplink 13014]RX100[/shoplink] that fears no competitor in his class?

You choose! Please take time before you vote. And let us know in the comments why you picked up the camera you voted! Thanks!

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If you were ever curious about the detailed specs of that so called “translucent mirror” used for SLT cameras than just take a look a Patent Number 8313254 (via freepatentsonline). It explains the material used and the reflective characteristics of the mirror: “the light-beam splitting mirror has spectral characteristics including a reflectivity of 25% or more and 35% or less at all wavelengths from 400 to 650 nm and a reflectivity of 60% or more at a wavelength of 700 nm”

Have fun reading all these tech!