Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera



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This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.

It's a ball, with many cameras inside of it pointing in all directions. You throw it up in the air and it makes a dynamic panoramic scrollable picture of the whole scene.

I want one very badly. I just don't know if this is a dream or real. Anyone know?
Movie of it here: http://t.co/CF71Q5If

 Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera

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See Gorgious Photos of a Quarter-Million Galaxies

Galaxy Zoo provides over a quarter of a million galaxies for ordinary people to look at and classify.  Scientists would like other human help identifying the shapes of galaxies and getting other input that computers are only so good at. See thousands of never before seen galaxies across the known universe.
The Galaxy Zoo files contain almost a quarter of a million galaxies which have been imaged with a camera attached to a robotic telescope (the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, no less). In order to understand how these galaxies — and our own — formed, we need your help to classify them according to their shapes — a task at which your brain is better than even the fastest computer. More than 150,000 people have taken part in Galaxy Zoo so far, producing a wealth of valuable data and sending telescopes on Earth and in space chasing after their discoveries. Zoo 2 focuses on the nearest, brightest and most beautiful galaxies, so to begin exploring the Universe, click the ‘How To Take Part’ link above, or read ‘The Story So Far’ to find out what Galaxy Zoo has achieved to date.
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Do Still Pictures or Video Stick With You More

In the modern world video has taken over.  YouTube, Television, camera phones, etc have taken over our visual news and experiences.   They allow people to experience things that are happening or have happened.  They brought to the American people troops, experiences, stories, and horror in Iraq.  They stir emotions and bring calls of action.  This week, many have seen what has happened  with the Olympic Torch relay protests. Still photos only capture a moment in time.  By freezing that moment, you can look and absorb the instant.  Even with videos from previous wars, photos capture something that video seems to miss.  Even with video of the same period, photos from Vietnam and WWII are still in people's consciousness.  News casts on television also use still images from stories they're covering.  By seeing a still picture, the image stays with people. Which format makes a bigger impact?  Which holds the bigger emotional impact?  Which stays with people more?

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Rename Digital Photos

Namexif™ is a tool to automatically rename photos with the date they were shot. Digital cameras have their own clock and record the date to each photos with a precision of a second. Since the date and time is recorded for each photos (provided it is an EXIF compliant digital camera), Namexif™ is able to rename these photos according to the date. Doing so will:
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  • set a unique name to your photos
  • This is not so useful if you painstakingly rename all your photos as you take them off the camera, but very few people have that time or willpower.  This will at least help you organize your photos by knowing when they were taken at a glance of the filename. Nameexif

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    New British UFO Sighting

    SNN0115A 682 411967a New British UFO Sighting

    Kelvin Barbery snapped the mystery object from a coastal path between Swanpool and Maenporth, near Falmouth, Cornwall (UK). In a weird twist, Kelvin, 55, did not even see the UFO at the time. He thought he was just taking a sea view — but when he loaded the digital camera card on to his computer, the round metallic “craft” was in the centre of the shot, about two miles away. Kelvin, a facilities manager for schools, said: “There were a couple of tankers out in the bay and I thought that it made a nice shot.“There was nothing in view and certainly no fault on the camera. “When I got home I couldn't believe what I had. I thought, 'Wow, where did that come from?' I'm not the sort to believe in UFOs; now I'm not so sure.”

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