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NASA beams back video from the Dark Side of the Moon

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

NASA has released footage of the far side of the moon, beamed back by one of the agency's twin Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft as they test their MoonKAM hardware. In the clip - which you can see after the cut - the moon's north pole is visible at the top of the screen, before the craft passes by the Mare Orientale, a 560m wide impact basin. Read The Full Story

Pentax K-01 pairs K-mount DSLR lenses with compact body

Chris Davies, Feb 2nd 2012 Discuss [0]

Pentax has launched its latest interchangeable lens camera, the Pentax K-01, designed by Marc Newson and compatible with standard Pentax K-mount DSLR lenses. Offered in black, silver or Newson-trademark yellow, the K-01 wraps an aluminum frame around a 16-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor and a 3-inch 920k dot LCD preview display, delivering Full HD 1080p 30fps video recording (or 60fps 720p).

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Nano Quadrotor robot swarm video is mesmerizing, terrifying

Chris Davies, Feb 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

If you fear the rise of intelligent, collaborative robots swarming together and gathering human prey for the battery tanks, look away now: the Nano Quadrotors have taken to the skies and they're terrifyingly adept. The handiwork of researchers in the GRASP Lab at the University of Pennsylvania, the latest-gen Quadrotors can not only handle being tossed, inverted or generally batted around without crashing, but fly in formation. Read The Full Story

Nokia Belle upgrade on Feb 8 2012 tips yanked site

Chris Davies, Jan 30th 2012 Discuss [0]

Nokia has apparently confirmed a February 8 2012 release date for Nokia Belle, the software update to Symbian on the Nokia N8, E7, X7, E6 and C6-01, though the announcement was seemingly premature. A news page regarding Belle was posted by Nokia Vietnam but subsequently yanked - you can see it in Google's cache - Read The Full Story

Danger, Will Robinson! B9 Robot voice Dick Tufeld dies

Chris Davies, Jan 27th 2012 Discuss [0]

"Danger, Will Robinson, Danger!" Sad news this week as it's confirmed that the second-half of the famous B9 Robot from classic sci-fi series Lost In Space, voice actor Dick Tufeld, died at the weekend. Known for providing the distinctive authoritative voice of the B9 as it helped the Robinson family - and the dastardly Dr. Zachary Smith - as they explore deep space. Read The Full Story

Printable smart tags could link carrots to the internet of things

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Printable plastic labels could actively monitor food freshness, track vaccine efficacy and eventually warn you when your brakes need replacing, packing low-power intelligence into disposable computers. The culmination of several decades of R&D by ThinFilm Electronics, with some help from Xerox PARC's printed transistors, the multilayer tags combine a year's worth of battery power, sensors and a small display, and will initially be used to show a temperature record of perishable food and medications. Read The Full Story

Google Privacy Policy changes outrage activists

Chris Davies, Jan 25th 2012 Discuss [0]

Google has updated its privacy policy, replacing the individual agreements for each service like Gmail, Google+ and YouTube with a single policy that already has privacy advocates screaming. Although Google's new terms of service - which will come into effect on March 1 - won't involve collecting any more user information than is currently, it will allow the search giant's various services to share that information between themselves, rather than keep it siloed. From Google's perspective, that allows them to better tailor information to individual users; viewed from a different angle, it's an even greater amount of data and inference one company knows about you. Read The Full Story

Samsung continues the iPhone burn ad series with Voice Typing

Chris Burns, Jan 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

There's nothing like a good burn to start off your Tuesday afternoon, that being exactly what Samsung has aimed at doing today as they release their next in a long line of burns on the iPhone with the Galaxy S II. As this particular video spot shows, the Samsung Galaxy S II running Android has the ability to translate your voice into text and send a text message without a hitch, this much to the dismay of a very chilly customer whose iPhone does not do the same. When he steps in the hipster clothing store it all becomes rather apparent where his heart lies. Read The Full Story

Trafalgar Sun raises 4m lumen artificial star above London

Chris Davies, Jan 24th 2012 Discuss [0]

Hoisting a 4m lumen artificial sun over dreary London for a morning seems like overkill, even when you consider how many Seasonal Affective Disorder sufferers there are out there, but it certainly makes for an eye-catching promotion. Art collective Greyworld was commissioned to put together the 2,500kg fake star for juice peddlers Tropicana, a six month construction project that, for one day only, was suspended above London's Trafalgar Square to brighten an otherwise drab dawn. Read The Full Story

Star Wars Uncut Directors Cut fan-stitched masterpiece now online in its entirety

Chris Burns, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

It's been nearly 3 years in development and thousands of hours of blood, sweat, and fun had in the process, and it's finally here: the complete re-make of Star Wars: A New Hope constructed entirely of fan-made 15 second clips. This project was originally called Star Wars Uncut, and this final product is of course called Star Wars Uncut: Director's Cut, and stitches together the entire set of hundreds of clips into one perfected bunch. This version is the "final" version of the film, and is available for you to watch 100% for free and in its entirety. Read The Full Story

Teenage Engineering Oplab makes music mangling easy

Chris Davies, Jan 23rd 2012 Discuss [0]

Synth manufacturers Teenage Engineering are best known for their OP-1, a compact instrument the sounds from which belie its toylike exterior, but the company has also revealed Oplab. Intended to make experimenting with audio more straightforward and flexible, the MIDI-enabled Musical Experimentation Board allows you to hook up both traditional and unusual sensors - including pressure, CV and more - and outputs and create suitably offbeat audio. Read The Full Story