Antikythera Mechanism. More than meets the eye. A 2100 year old ancient Greek (and geek!) device with 3000 characters and 30 gears calculating sun, moon, planet locations on certain dates and most importantly tracking Olympic Game dates! And all this at a time without Microsoft and Intel, when Olympic Games were the real thing, without [...]
Energy waste is among us, and it is not a TV on stand-by… Stores leave their doors open Summer and Winter in the hope of attracting more customers. In the meantime, coal and nuclear plants work overtime to keep up with unnecessarily high energy demands…
The Racked site has a special section called This Store Blows [...]
MAG car with electromagnetic propulsion at the back wheel, by Matus Prochaczka. Winner of the Unseen Technology Award at the Interior Motives Design Award 2007. Feasible? At the moment no, but a nice glimpse at a possible automotive future [Source: Designblog via Inhabitat]
It’s actually surprising that Nikon went ahead with its impressive full-frame D700 release before Photokina, while Canon was under pressure to quickly come up with a cheap entry DSLR in the name of the 1000D. This means that Photokina 2008 will have more goodies in store. The Canon 7D and Nikon D90 are already two [...]
The Athens 2004 Olympic games were probably the best ever for photographic opportunities. Visitors had few restrictions, while professionals raved after the games about the relaxed atmosphere and the organisers’ flexibility and the freedom they were given to maximise their creative powers.
The Beijing games this month play a completely different tune. As CNET reports, non-professionals [...]
The Four Thirds system pioneered by Olympus is the only digital DSLR format built from the ground up for digital sensors. Although it has had some impact in the DSLR segment and created its own dedicated followers, it has not managed to upset the Canon and Nikon competition. However, it is a system that holds [...]
The new Leaf AFi 10 camera system will have 56 megapixels and a radical DALSA developed sensor that will be true wide frame at 56mm. Sensitivity will reach ISO 800, while file sizes will be as daunting as expected…
The ultra expensive medium format segment was already hot enough with the arrival of the 50 megapixel [...]
Nikon does not seize to amaze these days. The D700 (unboxing here) is the full-frame body we all need, while the D3 occupies the peak of the range, for many the best DSLR that exists at the moment. Now Nikon comes to surprise us with an internal upgrade that nobody had thought of or tried [...]
There is reports of a New York convertible with desk, desktop, CRT monitor, printer and flowers! So what is missing? Maybe a toilet so that this poor chap doesn’t need to get out of the car so often and some solar panels to keep the whole mobile home/PC system going indefinetely. Happy mobile computing! [Source: [...]
