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Science

Colour Printer With World’s Highest Resolution Fits Images On A Human Hair

This image might look a little grainy to you, but you really should give it a chance. What you’re looking at is the output from the world’s highest resolution colour printer, and it’s actually an extreme close-up of an image that measures just 50 micrometers across — the same width as a human hair.

5 July 2012

Science

Aussie Team Captures Shadow Of A Single Atom

This isn’t a wallpaper design from the seventies, or a close-up picture of the sun. Though it might look a little garish in orange, what you’re actually looking at is the first ever recorded image of an atom’s shadow.

21 March 2012

Software

All Your Digital Comics Just Went HD

Reading comics on the new iPad’s retina screen is about to get a lot better. New comics from Marvel, DC, Image and other major comic publishers are all available in retina-level resolution, and back issues and indie comics should follow suit very shortly.

3 February 2012

Science

Aussie Solar Storm Pic Is Pretty And Informative

If I recall the saying correctly, “Red sky at night… mean that the sheep are on fire.”. This isn’t a case of burning quadrupeds, though, but a shot taken by NASA near Flinders of Last week’s Solar storm. And it’s not just a good looking shot.

1 September 2011

Geek Out

Windows XP’s Iconic Bliss Desktop Has Lost Some Of Its Bliss

A good desktop image is hard to find. Microsoft did very well with the default pretty “Bliss” Windows XP desktop, but that was years ago. The site where the photo was taken? It’s not quite as pretty as it once was.

19 July 2011

Cameras

Those Smiling Monkey Pictures Are Likely Public Domain

We can all breathe a sigh of relief as those macaque monkey pictures may belong in the public domain. Neither the photographer nor the news agency that published the images can claim a copyright because they did not create them.

6 March 2011

Online

The Entire Internet On A Floppy Disk

It really speaks to our youthful naivety when we could imagine ourselves shrilling, “ooh, the Internet is all in this awesome, pocketable floppy disk. We have arrived”! Though I guess some of our parents and even un-techsavvy friends would still believe such a thing. [Unplggd]

12 December 2010

Online

So, This Is What Facebook Is All About…

Making friends? No, not just that…

7 November 2010

Cameras

Holding An Exploded Water Balloon

Edward Horsford has taken a series of high-speed pictures that captures a water balloon…without the balloon. The shots are snapped at the point of explosion, when the balloon skin breaks open. It looks like he’s somehow holding a ball of water.

10 October 2010

Science

Anyone Can Have A Digitally Enhanced Body Now

If you dislike the way you look on video, a new kind of image-manipulation software could make you feel better about yourself.

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