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Someone called ScreamyGuy built this fractal scene of robots. He says, “I built a robot whose sole purpose in life was to create an even smaller robot just like himself… So much like himself, that this robot endeavored to create yet another tiny robot, ad infinitum…
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July 9th, 2008
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author: karen m.
filed under: digital imaging | media players | mobile tech
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If you happen to own an iPhone, you know that the built-in digital camera is pretty limited due to its fixed lens. Now you can add a zoom lens which will let you get up close and personal with your photographic subject.
This add-on 6x optical zoom lens by Conice might look a little weird protruding from the back of your iPhone, but it will give you much greater flexibility for your photos…
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January 19th, 2008
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author: technabob
filed under: computing | digital imaging
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This new webcam has a huge lens that lets you zoom in on tour subjects from far away. While they don’t say what the zoom ratio is, it’s clear that the telephoto lens increases the range substantially over most webcams.
Like a giant cyclops sitting on your desk, the USB Big Eye Webcam not only has a big lens, it’s got some pretty nice other features for an inexpensive cam…
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July 25th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: digital imaging
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If you just can’t get enough megapixels in your digital camera, you might want to wait just a couple more days for this new model from Panasonic.
The new Lumix DMC-FX100K offers a whopping TWELVE megapixel resolution. For those of you who are counting every tiny dot, that’s 4000 horizontal pixels by 3000 vertical pixels…
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July 16th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: audio | gadgets
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This nifty device is a self-contained surround sound recording studio. The Samson Zoom H2 Handy Recorder uses a set of three directional microphones to record high quality stereo and surround imaging to its built-in digital recorder…
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April 24th, 2007
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author: technabob
filed under: mobile tech
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Microsoft today announced a new startup business focused on improving user interfaces for mobile devices called “ZenZui.”
ZenZui’s differentiator is its unique “zooming” user interface which lets you quickly maneuver from one application or website to another…
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March 27th, 2007
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author: technabob