Damien Hirst Artwork Made of Thousands of Butterfly Wings Sells for 2 Million Pounds
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Damien Hirst’s painting “I Am Become Death, Shatterer of Worlds.” Image via UKauctionnews . An auction in London of work by a controversial British artist has fetched 2.2 million pounds for one strikingly beautiful, if subtly unsettling, piece — a 17-foot-wide, 7-foot-tall red-gloss canvas covered entirely with the wings of thousands of real butterflies …. Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Lexmark intros Genesis all-in-one printer with camera-based scanning, we go eyes-on
October 15, 2010 No Comment
You’ve probably seen quite a few flatbed scanner bars in your lifetime, but the $400 Lexmark Genesis printer doesn’t have one of those — it’s got a 10 megapixel digital camera with a fish-eye lens that produces nigh-instant images. 750 milliseconds after you close its front-facing scan bay, the CMOS sensor generates a preview on the 4.3-inch color touchscreen, and 2.2 seconds after that, it’s got a full 4800 x 1200 image saved on your USB-connected computer or winging its way across 802.11n WiFi. The company’s calling the system FlashScan, and the raw speed was definitely impressive when we saw it in San Francisco this week, even though other parts of the print system left something to be desired. The printer uses special algorithms to translate the fish-eye image back into a flat sheet and reproduces text quite well, but the twin RGB flashes it fires to reproduce color didn’t always do an accurate job, and we were disappointed to find a number of features (including some obvious oversights like image rotation for copies) weren’t accessible via the touchscreen. It does have a number of neat web apps for completely untethered use, however, including the ability to scan right to Evernote and Photobucket, and Lexmark told us it’s working with a number major photo hosting services, Twitter, Facebook and Box.net to let Genesis users directly upload. See it in action on video after the break, along with the full press release. Continue reading Lexmark intros Genesis all-in-one printer with camera-based scanning, we go eyes-on Lexmark intros Genesis all-in-one printer with camera-based scanning, we go eyes-on originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A Mexican official says the search for an American tourist believed to have been shot while crossing a border lake has been temporarily called off. (Oct. 15)
Continue reading …WaPo Defines It As ‘Public Awareness’ to Say GOP Will Release Terrorists and Pollute Rivers If They Win
October 15, 2010 No CommentWhile media liberals obsess about negative ads funded by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, federal worker unions are savagely attacking the Tea Party in a forthcoming radio ad campaign. “We would love to be very
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Best Buy’s been a naughty retailer again by letting some people purchase Nikon’s D7000 a few days ahead of its proper retail launch. Of those lucky buyers, a couple inevitably chose to document the unboxing experience and consequently we now have two videos awaiting you after the break, detailing just how neatly that black and gold box is arranged. The actual contents will hardly surprise you — a neck strap, LCD protector, all the usual cables, plus an 18-105mm kit lens with soft pouch and petal-shaped hood are all present and accounted for — but the thrill is in seeing the D7000 itself emerging from its plastic wrappings. You may do so just past the break. Continue reading Nikon D7000 sold at Best Buy a little early, gets unboxed immediately Nikon D7000 sold at Best Buy a little early, gets unboxed immediately originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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A school in a New York City suburb says it is likely responsible for the unidentified objects in the sky that caused quite a stir in the city. The school says the objects that looked like lights could be balloons that were accidentally let go. (Oct. 15)
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Photo Credit: Gavin Turk If you are in London this week, forget about the Boris Bikes and hit the road on one of Gavin Turk’s. Called “Les Bikes de Bois Rond”, the artist has created 15 wild and crazy bicycles for an international art fair. Turk leading a band of New York and L.A. art collectors, all in black of course, will be a sight to see. Riders of the bicycles will get a certificate authenticating themselves as works of art…. Read the full story on TreeHugger
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If you have even the slightest inclination towards Mysophobia then please, do yourself a favor and stop reading now. A Stanford University study found that if you put a virus on a touchscreen surface then about 30 percent of it will make the jump to the fingertips of anyone who touches it. From there it goes into the eyes, mouth, or nose — whichever face-hole is in most urgent need of a rub. And just to drive the point home, the Sacramento Bee adds this little nugget from an unspecified British study: “Mobile phones harbor 18 times more bacteria than a flush handle in a typical men’s restroom.” Eww. You know, sometimes it’s best not to know how the sausage is made. Shocker! Cellphone touchscreens are dirty originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:53:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Based on breathless reports we’re seeing on Twitter and in the XDA-Developers’ forums, it would appear that Samsung has just pushed out the official Android 2.2 Froyo update for its Galaxy S as promised . Our Nordic friends are the first to report seeing the build I9000 JPM update in the latest version of Samsung’s Kies PC software. It’s early days though, so do let your fellow i9000 owners know how it goes in the comments below. [Thanks, Gustav F.] Galaxy S Android 2.2 Froyo update begins to trickle out originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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