Technology opinions and digital photography
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Pantone coffee mugs
Specially for graphics designers, for those who cannot stop seeing the word in Pantone colors, W2 Products designed coffee mugs branded by Pantone. Out of stock already.
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Tiberium: An FPS in the universe of Command-and-Conquer
GameInformer revealed in a world exclusive coverage that Electronic Arts really started the development of an FPS video game in the universe of Command-and-Conquer (a very successful real-time strategy game). Will it work? Will it produce a good game? Or simply a C&C-ploitation?
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Hyacinth Macaw
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them One of the most spectacular birds in Amazonia: Marvellous deep cobalt blue feathers on a one-meter long body, 1.5m wide wings. Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus, Ara hyacinthe). Brazil, 2007.
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Robots have optical illusions, too
It was not trivial, but artificial networks trained to recognize surfaces have the same difficulties to recognize them in 3D optical illusions (as humans have). Source: CNN International, “robots tricked by optical illusion“.
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Wriggling tropical life (again)
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Shot in Brazil, 2007.
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System monitoring with great looks for the control freak
We don’t always have all the information we want about what is happenning inside the computer. Sometimes, we get too much of it. But these technical details don’t always appear in a way pleasant to the eye. However, this is what CoolMon has to offer. Free utility for Windows.
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Pentax K20D and Pentax K200D for PMA?
During the recent weeks, several web sites reported a rumour coming from a Chinese site about a possible announcement by Pentax in their line of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. Currently, the K10D is one of the most impressive nearly-pro cameras on the market despite its low price. The K100D is also an impressively…
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An 8-feet long scorpion
There was only a claw. It was dead for nearly 390 millions d’années. But this little creepie-crawlie was probably much more than 2-meter long. Anyway, it was only one of the most impressive guys arthropods of this era reaching these gigantic proportions only explainable by the fact that the harsh competition for survival did not…
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Southern crested caracara
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them The Southern crested caracara is probably the most common falcon in Pantanal and Mato Grosso (Brazil). It feeds on nearly anything and is commonly seen on carrion (like below) and road kill. This adaptability and its powerful beak allows it to catch very different preys. Click on…
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