To our dear friends and fans: Thank you all for your support in 2009 and we hope you found our articles, tutorials and reviews useful and fun to read.

The Photoxels team here wishes you and yours a Safe, Healthy and Happy New Year 2010!!!

We are looking forward to exciting news for 2010 as far as the new Digital Interchangeable Lens category is concerned. Expect all the major camera manufacturers to jump onto the bandwagon and start introducing their version of the “mirrorless DSLR” and/or compact digicams with large sensors.

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Japanese researchers at at Chiba University have developed a “hummingbird robot” that can flutter around freely in mid-air with rapid wing movements. The robot is about the same size as a real hummingbird, flies courtesy of a micro motor and four wings that can flap 30 times per second, and is controlled with an infrared sensor.

Professor Hiroshi Liu, the main researcher, adds that he also plans to equip the Hummingbird Robot with a micro camera by March 2011.

Potential uses include helping rescue people trapped in destroyed buildings, searching for criminals or even as a probe vehicle on Mars.

[ Read the article at: Yahoo! ]

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[ via Vimeo ]

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This movie sure puts life in perspective for me. What presents to give and receive during this Holiday Season pale in comparison. In our frenzy to buy, buy, buy, it is good to pause and remember that our loved ones are the most precious gifts already given to us.

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Pierre-Henry Muller of Boreally and Photographie HDR has published a time lapse video using the Canon EOS 5D Mark II, the Canon TS-E 17mm f/4L lens and the Carl Zeiss Jena DDR MC Flektogon 20mm f/2.8 lens. In all he took 8891 photos in sRAW2 at 1 second interval and play them back, some at 10 and other at 30 fps.

View more details at Vimeo.

[ via Focus Numérique ]

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OK, so we don’t know zilch about the rumored Apple iTablet, or even if Apple is working on one, but that has not stoppped people from preparing for it. Sports Illustrated has demoed what their future online illustrated magazine might look like when viewed on a device such as the iTablet.

Judging from the amount of interest about an online reading device such as the iTablet, you can be sure that one will be forthcoming (whether from Apple or someone else) soon.

How do we prepare for that eventuality? What is the best display size (in pixels) and font size so everything is confortably readable; how to use resizable fonts that do not break the design; the number of columns; even what features that blog software such as WordPress should be working on now?

I don’t believe a straight porting of your website (with long vertical scrolling) is necessarily the best way to go as it will probably not take full advantage of the interactive features Apple is famous for. Any designers willing to take a stab and write (or at least, prepare) an article for such a device?

[ RT @mashable @missmriss ]