June 2007 Archives

No picture with this post - just click the link to see a video of a guy playing a street-side basketball arcade machine. Marvel at his speed and skill ..... and wonder how much he spent to get this good.

Link here.

How would you like to see this (above) when you check your mail?

"3D Mailbox" is a (currently) free program which turns your mail into an experience.

Google have added a new feature to their maps - 'Street View' - at the moment it is limited to a very few cities in the USA.

More interesting is the technology to create the views. Immersive Media are responsible and you can see the car, with its 11-lens camera on top, in the photo above.

Many modern digital cameras come with better zoom capability than was once the case. When you zoom, any unsteadiness of the hands becomes more noticeable, even with the anti-shake software included in many cameras nowadays. (Image stabilisation software.)

So ... tripods are becoming more popular again.

A Gizmodo writer took a tour around the Manfrotto factory in Italy and shot a short video of production that is quite interesting.

The model on the left? That's the one I use.

The annual Brain Academy competition for budding computer scientists has started.

There are three age categories - one is for school-age students.

There are several stages to go through which test your ability to research information on the Internet and your creativity in problem-solving. If you pass those two there is a third - and final - stage.

You have till September - good luck.

Intel recently held a competition to see who could design a new and innovative PC.

The winner was the 'mCubed' by HFX micro from Austria.

You can view the others via this Gizmodo gallery. 

Today - June 5th - is apparently the birthday of the famous Apple II computer.

Look at those enormous floppy disk drives - they stored about 140K each - and like the computer itself were a masterpiece of design by Steve Wozniak.

Gizmodo have some info and other links here.