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Monday, 31 August 2009 01:25 |
Digital cameras have made capturing and sharing photos of outdoor adventures easy.
But it’s still just plain hard to take a good picture while you’re rafting down the whitewater or traping in the great outdoors.
There is now a solution, and upgrade to ye olde "pigeon poste", developed by a crowd called Rocky Mountain Adventures.
So when you book your trip through Rocky Mountain Adventures, they do the picture-taking for you. On-site photographers position themselves at good vantage points during your river run and capture the action. When you return to RMA headquarters, your glossy photos are displayed brightly on the wall, ready for purchase.
We do live in the age of advanced technology, but, seriously – how do photo files come 30 miles from the backcountry, where there is no cell phone service and no Internet, and end up printed and looking pretty long before their rafting subjects arrive?
The answer is pigeons.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 12:48 |
Microscopes zoom in on molecules at last |
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:31 |
Thanks to specialised microscopes, we have long been able to see the beauty of single atoms.
But strange though it might seem, imaging larger molecules at the same level of detail has not been possible – atoms are robust enough to withstand existing tools, but the structures of molecules are not.
Now researchers at IBM have come up with a way to do it.
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Last Updated on Monday, 31 August 2009 01:39 |
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The Good Enough Revolution |
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:03 |
Tags: camera | software In 2001, Jonathan Kaplan and Ariel Braunstein noticed a quirk in the camera market.
All the growth was in expensive digital cameras, but the best-selling units by far were still cheap, disposable film models. That year, a whopping 181 million disposables were sold in the US, compared with around 7 million digital cameras.
Spotting an opportunity, Kaplan and Braunstein formed a company called Pure Digital Technologies and set out to see if they could mix the rich chocolate of digital imaging with the mass-market peanut butter of throwaway point-and-shoots. They called their brainchild the Single Use Digital Camera and cobranded it with retailers, mostly pharmacies like CVS.
The concept looked promising, but it turned out to be fatally flawed.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 September 2009 20:30 |
ITCP - Information Technology Certified Professional |
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Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:16 |
ITCP is the new "gold standard" professional Certification for ICT Professionals in New Zealand, and is closely related to similar Certifications around the world.
ITCP has been established and is governed by the New Zealand Computer Society (NZCS), the professional body of ICT Professionals in New Zealand for almost 50 years.
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Last Updated on Sunday, 30 August 2009 10:35 |
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