Engadget reveals the look of the new HTC Dream, the 1st mobile phone based on the Android mobile operating system.
HTC’s Android-driven Dream revealed in glorious spy photos – Engadget, Aug 30th 2008
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The new Sony T-series Cyber-Shot DSC-T500 ostensibly a 10.1 megapixel 5x optical zoom ultra-slim point and shoot still camera now offers hi-def 720p 30fps video recording.
We’ve used & liked the T series – they’re nice & thin. Also tried the newish DSCW-170 .. it has a good screen plus a wide angle zoom, altho the optional GPSCS1 gps dongle is a bit of a drag to carry around.
NEW SONY CYBER-SHOT CAMERA’S VIDEO CAPTURE GOES HIGH DEF – Sony news release, Aug. 28, 2008
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Nice of Blaupunkt to splice together a GPS navigation system with a video camera, plus traffic sign recognition, a DVB-T TV receiver, voice control, web-access via WLAN, hand-free phone calls, music via Bluetooth, speed-camera warnings, and an integrated Traffic Message Channel (TMC … must be a Europe-only thing), into one handy mashup. Here’s a simulated demo movie of the Blaupunkt TravelPilot 700 in action. $740.
Nice, but…
…there’s no lane departure warning system, collision avoidance, accident recording, black ice detection, radar detector, still photography with face recognition, hi-def video recording, iPod dock, or sharing of music with other TravelPilot vehicles! …guess we’ll just have to wait for v2.0!
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MythBusters debunks all those theories about the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 NASA manned lunar landings being faked. Their Aug 27 2008 show entitled Moon Landing Hoax Hour examined the flapping flag, footprints, shadows, wonky moonwalking in 1/6 gravity and so on. They declare the myth to be Busted, with their strongest evidence being the laser light returned by the retroreflectors left on the moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15.
…whew! that’s a load off our mind…
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Use a Reuleaux triangle drill bit to create square holes (…well, almost-square holes).
…sort of like a Wankel engine for woodworking.
Reuleaux Triangle – Mathworld … via Hacker News
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Canon has on offer a new compact digital camera, model PowerShot E1. Very organic looking /w soft, rounded shapes. Design comes to the fore with the body available in a white-vanilla savanna-grasslands theme, or an aquamarine-seagull harbor-blue finish, or a pink-cotton baobab-tree motif. And in a first, the initial start-up screen harmonizes with the body color…
Reminiscent of Discoid Form III and suggestive of Upper-Paleolithic design influences.
10.3 megapixels , 4x optical zoom, specs are at this link.
Canon’s PowerShot E1… Made By Women, for Women – Akihabara, 2008-08-26
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Exchange 2007 Resources now available for mail2web.com Business Exchange
August 26th, 2008
By Tim Attwood
Today we have launched a new feature for mail2web.com Business Exchange, one which many Microsoft Exchange users may already be familiar with as a useful tool for booking meetings or appointments within your company or organization – Resources and Rooms.
Basically what this allows you to do is to create additional Exchange accounts which are allocated specifically for a meeting room or a piece of equipment. The equipment can literally be any shared equipment you company owns, from an overhead projector to a vehicle. Read the rest of this entry »
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Trusted Reviews reviewed the Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digital camera and liked it so much they gave it an overall rating of 10/10.
While the DMC-FZ28 may indeed be the best of the superzooms (>> run-of-the-mill 3-4x optical zoom), the associated rating of perfect suggests that TR has moved beyond hyperbole, to adynaton, and that their article is more canonization than review.
10.1-megapixels, 18x optical zoom, 27mm wide-angle, $399.95
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 - Trusted Reviews, 22nd Aug 2008
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Lamborghini LP640 – LuxCars, Samedi 19 juillet 2008
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Nice scrollable panorama of the Beijing National Stadium ( ??????? ) on 15.8.2008…
Beijing Olympics Stadium about 30 min before men’s 100m Final
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