photo: Preston Rhea / Creative Commons An area of China the size of Rhode Island is being lost to desertification each year , with 38% of all the land on Earth in danger of following suit . According to the head of China’s anti-desertification effort… Read the full story on TreeHugger
Continue reading …Fujifilm’s 16 megapixel CES debutants leaked early: 30x superzoom and 1080p-recording compact
January 4, 2011 No Comment
Nobody is immune from a CES leak , it seems, as even the relatively tame waters of high-end compact and superzoom cameras have been ruffled up today with the emergence of two 16 megapixel Fujifilm models. Both sport an EXR-CMOS sensor, with the bigger brother HS20EXR boasting a 30x zoom (equivalent to covering the 28mm to 720mm range in old school photography parlance) zoom lens along with a 3-inch LCD on the back and an electronic viewfinder. Joining it at the CES unveiling this week will be a FinePix F500EXR number that offers a highly respectable 15x zoom of its own, along with a 3-inch LCD, geotagging, and 1080p video recording. If this leak turns out to be the real deal, we should have confirmation and more details very soon indeed. Continue reading Fujifilm’s 16 megapixel CES debutants leaked early: 30x superzoom and 1080p-recording compact Fujifilm’s 16 megapixel CES debutants leaked early: 30x superzoom and 1080p-recording compact originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Although the tawdry videos that cost U.S. Navy Captain Owen Honors his position on the USS Enterprise as of Tuesday weren’t exactly top secret before, they clearly had enough of a shelf life to generate a fresh scandal—and to spur the Pentagon to tuck Capt. Honors away in an administrative post.
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Encouraging children to make healthy lifestyle changes before they reach adulthood, including regular exercise and not smoking, can help lower the children’s blood cholesterol levels and potentially reverse their risk of developing heart disease as they age.
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Photo via Newtown Graffiti , Flickr. What am I, the phone book blogger? It seems that way. After a ban on Yellow Pages in Seattle and a related industry lawsuit, the latest news on ditching phonebooks comes from Maryland. This time, it’s the other way around. The state is preventing phone companies from switching to an opt-in system for white pages. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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A train has derailed in Georgia sending about 11 cars off the tracks and shutting down Bankhead Highway by early Tuesday morning. There were no injuries or spilled chemicals reported. (Jan. 4)
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OverDrive, a digital media company that specializes in digital content distribution, has recently announced an update to its Media Console for iOS. As well as giving you access to audiobooks from something like 13,000 libraries and educational institutions the world o’er, the new app offers — wait for it — free e-book downloads! Free app, free e-books (as long as you have a library card, of course), and access to the world’s great literature: it doesn’t get much better than that, does it? Hit the source link to try it for yourself. We suggest that you start with Under The Volcano — we always thought you looked drank like a young Malcolm Lowry. OverDrive Media Console app for iOS now features free e-book downloads originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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Thieves dug a 100-foot-long ventilated and lit tunnel from a neighboring building into an Argentine bank and emptied the contents of up to 140 safety deposit boxes, officials said Monday. (Jan. 4)
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WKRG.com There’s no doubt that the impact of t… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Fan of the early upgrade? Hope you’re not on Big Red, then. Android Central’s obtained what’s purported to be a slide from Verizon ‘s training material, one that says customers on a two-year contract “will no longer be able to upgrade in months 13 – 20 of their 24 month contract as a standard policy” after January 16th. As for the the New Every Two deal, pared down once already in February 2009, new customers won’t be enrolled if they activate or upgrade a line, also after the 16th. In other words, the program would be effectively dead in the water, but we don’t know if this slide is gospel or a cruel forgery, and we may not know for about another two weeks… you know, after the deluge of exciting phones that’ll be revealed at CES this week. Them’s the breaks. [Thanks, Mike] Verizon Wireless nixing early upgrades and New Every Two program? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
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