Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - Page 2
Science

Look! There’s A Person On The Moon


Cameras

Camera Sees The World Through Human Eyes

With the Human Eye Camera you won’t need a DIY lobotomy to see how the world would look without your brain flattening the images. With three arrangeable sensors, it’s as if your eyes had RAW output. [Four Fifths Design]


Entertainment

Microsoft’s Retail Stores Are Eight Times As Genius

You like Apple Geniuses? Penny Arcade shows an educated guess at how much you’re going to like Microsoft’s retail stores when they open right next to Apple ones this fall. Spoiler: a lot. [PA]


Science

Impacting Object Scars Jupiter For Life

It couldn’t have happened on a more appropriate anniversary: some bored astronomers spotted a new dark “scar” on the surface of Jupiter indicating either impact by a comet or a planet in serious need of anti-depressants. [NASA]


Online

HP’s Virtual Tech Museum Is Full Of Retromodo Goodness

Gizmodo AU

If you loved last week’s timewarp back to Gizmodo ’79, then you’ll probably get a kick out of HP’s Virtual Tech Museum, an online repository for users to share photos of their old gadgets. Plus, prizes!


Cameras

Zoom Q3: Finally A Flip-Type Pocket Cam With Decent Audio

Our Battlemodo showed that while cheap pocket camcorder video quality has come a long way, audio quality is usually abysmal. The Zoom Q3 aims to change that with TWO directional microphones that can be focused much like a lens zooms.


Gadgets

Just Let Me Use My Gadgets

Lisa at Boingboing—OK, actually, my girlfriend—wrote about our long standing debate about checking email in public. Reading it I felt indignation, and then shame, but in the end I have to yet again disagree.


Asus First To Feature USB 3.0 With P6X58 Motherboard

Asus is set to release the P6X58 Premium motherboard which features two USB 3.0 “SuperSpeed” ports. The board also supports a Core i7 processor, six DDR-3 slots, 3 PCI-Express slots, and a SATA 3.0 interface capable of 6Gb/sec transfer speeds.


CSIRO Pimping New Wireless Tech For NBN

Gizmodo AU

Screw Wimax and LTE – The CSIRO has a brand new wireless technology in the works, and is pimping it to the government as a possible solution to the problem of rolling out the NBN to remote areas.


Science

The Cloud Project Would Theoretically Make Ice Cream Fall Like Snow

The Cloud Project is a tricky little concept that would spray flavored condensation and liquid nitrogen into clouds, “seeding” them, and forcing flavored snow to fall from the heavens. It’s pretty much straight of of a children’s book.