⇒ things that have (or will) drop:

Canon's EOS 7D:


Apple's Snow Leopard


Opera 10


relatedly:
make firefox faster

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⇒ camera time:

Olympus EP1 feedback


Bokeh filter


scenes from Pinewood studios underwater studio

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⇒ cams

Flickr camera stats. Sure iPhone is gaining ground on the Canon, but that's because the Canon is an extra load to be carried, whereas iPhone is your phone, camera, music player, portable web, etc. NOTE: I DO NOT HAVE AN iPHONE. That 2mp cam doesn't cut it with me!


fancy cam does 100,000 fps, costs $10K

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⇒ Camera stuff

10 extreme cameras:

I like the hi-speed cam
also, this giant cam attachment:


Leica a la carte

numerous customisation choices to make result in 4000 possible combinations.

Nikon projector-camera:

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⇒ M A K E catchup:

pinhole camera


diy fireworks

walls for robo bricklayers


how to cryptex

How-To: Dissolve IC packages


Rice paddy crop art


Desktop Trebuchet


desktop onager


homemade stickers


soda can solar panel


how fireworks work


diy smokebomb


diy fire piston


diy fireworks


lego combi safe

homemade sunscreen


papercraft castle


weave a rope mat


Lithophane-making with the Micro CNC

Getting real with Physical Design


Future death machine nose art


Old school ceramics, new school robot art


High speed glass breakage


Shapeways adds free 3D parts database


papercraft mini moog


microcontroller cheat sheet


11-layer stencil graffiti

How-To: Panorama robot camera rig


iPhone as sketch pad


How-To: Frabjous cardboard geometry sculpture


Sugar Skull Tutorial


stop motion post its


In the Maker Shed: Arduino Nano board


20-Watt Solar Panel - A Primer @ MAKE

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⇒ tech

radiology art

New materials change color when stressed, making fans of mechanochemical transduction positively giddy

Samsung's MEMS shutter could massively improve high megapixel cameraphones

D.I.Y. wireless power project unleashes your inner mad scientist

JVC debuts 8K / 4K prototype camcorders, moviemakers drool

Dell's $299 Mini 10v now officially on sale

Flexible, stretchable, rubbery OLED prototype shown off in Tokyo

NY storefront hosts the first no-glasses 3D LCD ad


Roomba's journey shown to be endless, beautiful

The Old Republic dev diary shows how to make a planet

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⇒ what in the world

Exitreality launched--a 3d web browser. I've not yet tried it, but sounds shit--I mean, if you have to 'walk' everywhere to get to a webpage, it's going to slow down the surfing experience.
'ATM for books'. If there's one in Sydney, I'mma find it and try it.

games' 'hard' mode: hard | canon eos 5D spec | more Canon action | world's smallest pc | making of MGS4 | sweet sf home sticks...btw, sf4 = teh disappointment | broken vinyl + train = awesome | MAC OS X 10.5 released | crazy computing power from Cray | LittleBigPlanet design jam | FFXI boss bitch-slapped | Gunpei Yokoi papercraft | popular now on teh internetz: 'demakes'. Basically, you take a current game IP, and imagine what it would have been like on a retro system. | 10 commandments of facebook (according to cracked.com)

saw Hellboy 2 tonite. M'yeh, alot of things I liked and yet something lacking, maybe the pacing wasn't tight enough. I also thought Doug Jones did a poor job in comparison to David Hyde Pierce. Sorry Doug. The fantasy was great, the costumes, art direction, production design and style: all great. Nuada = slippery, but cool. Nuala = schwing. Wink = cool. Stock agent characters getting eaten = nasty but alrite. Creepy cat-devouring lady? Disturbing-cool. Not so great: noob Johann--the guy in the suit didn't body-communicate particularly well. Same goes for the voice. Not much about the character was likeable or interesting.

I'm preparing myself for the great yoghurt-dessert invasion of sydney: we all know it's overdue. America's had it for a while now, and it's turned over megabucks. It's just another one of those stylised-franchisee-chains that periodically crop up with some diet staple presented in a new way.

btw, movie prices (like fuel) have gone up and will never come down. To hell with this, greedy cinema peddlers can suck on my hairy left one, I got a HDTV now. I'm never going back to cine. What a ripoff!

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⇒ status report

cold day...woke up at 3-ish, after a late night and a '30 min' nap. Anyhoo, it rained, so I almost chickened out of gymming, but I didn't.

I went and because I wasn't entirely feeling up for it, I cut the duration but bumped the intensity.
Ran for 20', just to change things up. Thing is, even though I only ran for 20', and at normal-ish pace, I was sweating like crazy after. I mean after washing up, toweling off and sitting down, I was still sweating!
Rode bike for 10' and did some more weights after.

Weight: 76.5 kg
Getting there...slow and steady...entering the danger zone now: this time of year I need to stay healthy, and keep exercising, two things which I wasn't able to do last year.

turbine watch
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/urwerks-ur-202-combines-turbines-and-watches-just-how-you-alway/

samsung patents gesture control (i called this one months ago, but they were likely in dev for years, so I call it a draw)
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/19/samsung-skips-the-touchscreen-patents-gesture-based-phone-inter/

sweet ass new point and shooter from Panasonic
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/video-hands-on-panasonics-dmc-fx500-with-3-inch-touchscreen-an/

advanced meta-humans coming your way
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/18/new-bionic-limbs-to-be-controlled-via-brain-mounted-sensors/

pico projector-let's bump up the res, yup?
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/17/meet-sunview-the-first-commercially-available-pico-projecto/

Mortal Kombat vs. DC announced-oh man...this is gonna suck balls

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⇒ today

my feelings of disillusion and malaise continue to grow with each passing day. Where do I begin?...

my kid can paint that
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=37914

http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/03/mouth-mounted-camera-leads-to-unconventional-art/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/02/toshiba-demonstrates-hand-motion-controls-at-ceatec/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/10/02/purdues-carbon-nanotubes-could-trump-heat-sinks/

status report:behind on all my projects, 7 years behind in terms of social development (at some point I was only 2 years behind, but shit happens and now I've been pushed back to 7 years!) and no fire.

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⇒ surveillance

fun:
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/09/rise-audiophile-cd-player-ships-in-three-separate-cases/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/08/optimus-prime-pc-case-mod-stands-nearly-seven-feet-tall/


surveillance:
fisher price plays big brother here | unmanned military vehicles here | France's CCTV upped here | Judge limits NYC surveillance here | London surveillance veil here | Motion interpolating surveillance here | Surveillance dog here | Surveillance drones here | RFID chips in workers here | Your own top-down spyplane here |

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⇒ digicams!

I swear I'll have an awesome DSLR before the year's out (likely before I go overseas). Also I swear to have worked and earned money as a professional photographer at some point in life.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_single-lens_reflex_camera
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canoneos400d/
http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/glossary/
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/specs/Pentax/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leica_M8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_E-330
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicdmcl1/

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/raydiance-laser-can-vaporize-matter-sans-heat/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/20/square-enix-launching-us-online-store/
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/20/nintendo-closing-gap-on-sonys-market-value/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/nvidia-launches-tesla-gpus-are-the-new-cpus/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/get-your-own-daft-punk-helmet-maybe/
http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/irivers-unit2-detailed-on-teaser-site/
http://www.micromania.co.kr/shop/list7.php?ca_id=1045000000000000000&page=3 hawt!

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/20/microsoft-surface-one-day-your-computer-will-be-a-big-ass-table/
Microsoft surface rant: the problem is you have to buy a whole table to use it. Why not develop compact (and above all, reliable) hardware and adaptable software (err, from Microsh!t...?) so that it's more like placing a large, thick book down or moving it around than lugging an entire coffee table around. And what if you already have a coffee table? Will coffee mugs and beans become add-on sales items for Microsh!t?

PS3: Here's an idea that would've been successful (those fools should hire me for their marketing dept., instead of that this is living bs): They should've launched with the following 2 SKUs:
the current 60GB version (not for the still ridiculous price, mind you, and with an 80GB drive) with all the Blu-Ray, HDMI, Hi-def crap that Sony's currently forcing down our throats; OR a 'games' only PS3, which removed Blu-Ray playback ability, and all the extra 'trimmings' such as wireless and use wired controllers to really drive the cost down so that it's on par with Wii, but kept everything else necessary to give full-hd gaming experience. Oh and f#ck the bundled hard drive let everyone:
a/ BYO hdd of ANY size (i.e. some of that 250GB 2.5" action)
b/ use USB storage or whatever flash memory came free with their camera/phone or old any pc hard-drive + USB enclosure = instant storage
I mean 60 GB ain't alot in this day and age. That's less than 3 Blu-Ray discs worth!

that's that

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⇒ just let your soul glo!

(break: w5d7-->days on break: 42) thursday, 21st dec 2006
went to gym and pool today. didn't really swim but did some cardio--5km in about 49mins. I know, not too impressive but that's really something for me. I've injured for pretty much a year, and then stressed out and pigged out too. So I'm slowly working back up to my 3km in about 20mins best.
metamaterial with negative refractive index | japanese researcher invent completely transparent material. apparently | fermilab's 500 megapixel camera. yep, 500 | electrolux design lab 2006 | EW's 8 boxing movie cliches | David Copperfield meets David Blaine. He's fading! |

in other stuff, i just watched Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. meh. He should do more Beetlejuice and Sleepy Hollow type movies, you know, stuff that's distinctly Burton-esque. While we're on the topic, Johnny Depp was the voice of Victor in Corpse Bride but here's a recap of my favourite roles he's played:
Hunter S Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Vegas
Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
Constable Ichabod Crane in Sleepy Hollow
Edward Scissorhands in Edward Scissorhands
Agent Sands in Once upon a time in Mexico

that's all I can think of right now. Personally, his Willy Wonka pissed me off. I don't get the angle. Wasn't really quirky or deadpan or bizarre enough. Gene Wilder nailed the biarre-weirdo-deadpan angle. I know he's supposed to be doing his own thing but what exactly was it? The only good thing that came of it was the "Good morning Starshine" line. I dunno why but it's stayed with me.

...feel it oh so silky smooth, just let it shine through yeah, just let your sooooooooooooooooooooooooooul-glo yeah! Soul-glo. :)

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