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€576,000 Will Get You One Of The First Camera

WestLicht Photographica Auction will auction one of the first Daguerréotype cameras ever produced. The wooden sliding-box camera was made in Paris in September 1839 by Alphonse Giroux and just recently discovered after...

Panasonic GF1 As You’ve Never Seen It

Panasonic GF1 As You’ve Never Seen It

No words could do justice to what you’re about to see next. The photos that accompany the article [we provided an English translation] also speak for themselves. View the amazing Panasonic GF1 lens extravaganza [...

The Amazing Skiff e-Reader

The Amazing Skiff e-Reader

The Skiff Reader measures about 23 x 28 cm (9 x 11 in.) and is only 6.8 mm (0.3 in.) thin. It is a rugged metal foil e-Paper display made of silicon thin-film transistors laid onto a flexible stainless steel substrate...

Fun Inventions and Pictures of 2009

Fun Inventions and Pictures of 2009

Here are some of my favorite inventions and pictures of 2009: “Transparent” Concrete Now, you can ride the shopping cart all over again Transparent Toaster. Really? I have to sit there and watch? Horse Laugh...

Once in a Blue Moon, in fact every 19 years

Once in a Blue Moon, in fact every 19 years

The moon will be full this New Year’s Eve. The moon becomes full every 29.5 days, an occurrence wrongly labelled a “blue moon” in a 1946 magazine article. A New Year’s Eve “blue moon”...

50 Things That Changed Our Lives

50 Things That Changed Our Lives

CAMERAS: Remember those trips to get film developed? Nope? Even your grandmother has a digital camera, and she’s probably emailing you photos right now or uploading them to a photo-sharing site. [ Read the whole...

Japan’s Hummingbird Robot

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...