Hosni Mubarak will address the nation today to announce that he will meet the protesters’ demands, Egypt’s military and ruling party officials tell the AP . The military says the armed forces’ supreme council has been meeting all day, issuing a statement that they would take “necessary measures to protect the…
Continue reading …Lindsay Lohan is accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace, and now the jewelry store accusing her says the troubled starlet also tried to walk out with a diamond earring just four days prior. La Lohan allegedly tried on a pair of diamond earrings on Jan. 18, and only removed…
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Image credit: pawpaw67 , used under Creative Commons license. Malaysian palm oil producers may be committing to green(er) practices , but that’s unlikely to appease George Monbiot. He has long been a critic of biofuels for vehicles , but he is absolutely incensed at proposals for a power plant using biofuels… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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It’s finally coming, folks. Sonos told us that an Android client was by far the most requested item (and even noted how passionate Android users were about it). Sonos said that the client has been baking for a long time, and one of the reasons for the long lead time was to make sure they could support as many Android devices as possible — since there are varying screen sizes, form factors, etc. There… Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Boy Genius Report Discovery Date : 10/02/2011 16:31 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …An asteroid all but buzzed Earth on Friday, NASA has revealed. The asteroid, known as 2011 CQ1, passed just 3,405 miles above the Earth’s surface as it hung a sharp turn around the planet. That’s the closest near-miss ever recorded, beating a record set by a rock in 2004…
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That pretty much says it all, folks. It’s an app for your iPhone that lets you run your finger across the mic on your handset or headset and use it to trigger the camera. Simple? Yes. Genius? Maybe, so long as you aren’t the sort who mindlessly strokes your headphone cable while on the subway or bus. Yours now for a buck. Camera Mic app turns your iPhone mic into a shutter release originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:29:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Remember the days you had to insert multiple disks just to install a program? Also, remember when that last disk was damaged? Here to make it up to you, some fine floppy tunes. Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : The Next Web Discovery Date : 10/02/2011 16:26 Number of articles : 4
Continue reading …The well-documented evils of soda have led many people to switch to diet—but even that could be bad for your health, a new study suggests. About 2,500 adults in the New York area were studied for almost 10 years, and those who drank diet soda every day had…
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Images credit Kaitey Whitehead, Studio Jens Praet I do love my Fast Company Magazine ; it’s nice to know that at least some of them find an afterlife in the Shredded Collection Table made by Studio Jens Praet . They write that they were “horrified by the huge amounts of wastepaper produced in offices and endeavored to find another use for it.”… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Pelican Imaging’s prototype array camera could make your pictures better, phones thinner (video)
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If you want to look for life on another planet you don’t build one radio telescope that’s miles wide, you build a bunch of smaller ones and create an array out of them. As it turns out that basic idea works for capturing visible wavelengths as well. It’s called a plenoptic camera , using an array of very small lenses that, when combined, can create an image as good as a larger one. Pelican Imaging is largely interested in the slim factor this kind of system could offer, potentially allowing for thinner phones, but this could also open the door to some interesting effects. Check out the video after the break for an example of the dynamic aperture control this sort of setup can allow, where you can change the focal plane of an image after it was taken . Given the small size of the array here you probably couldn’t do anything too crazy, like take a picture through a tree, but the days of poorly focused cameraphone shots might finally be at an end — whenever this actually comes to market. Continue reading Pelican Imaging’s prototype array camera could make your pictures better, phones thinner (video) Pelican Imaging’s prototype array camera could make your pictures better, phones thinner (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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