| Find your Digital Rebel's inner Holga
If you love the look of pictures taken with the Holga —those cheap, plastic cameras made in China—but don't want to deal with the oh-so-last-century idea of film, check out Holgamods' Holga Body Cap. Randy Smith, the man behind Holgamods, has taken the lens off a stock Holga and grafted it onto a Canon body cap that fits all of the Canon D-SLRs, including the Digital Rebel series, the EOS 5D Digital, the new EOS 40D Digital, and even the top-of-the-line EOS-1Ds Mark III (it would probably fit any of the more modern Canon film cameras as well). The result is pure plastic goodness without the darkroom. Like the Lensbaby (another of our favorite toys), the Holga Body Cap isn't an automatic lens. You'll need to shoot in manual mode, and set the shutter speed accordingly, but it's a lot of fun, and you end up those dreamy, variable-focus images that tell everyone you're just a little bit off-kilter.
Small, wearable cameras could help keep an eye on cops
As leaders in Seattle and elsewhere call for stronger police accountability, three former Seattle officers hope to cash in on that movement with an action cam for police. The officers' fledgling company, VIEVU, has developed a small, wireless digital camera that could be a tool to record officers' interactions during an arrest or traffic stop. The camera is lightweight, about the size of a pager, and waterproof -- the latter feature being something that officers on Seattle's rainy beat know is paramount, said Chris Myers, who ended his 18-year police career in January to join VIEVU. The PVR-LE easily clips onto an officer's lapel or belt. Four gigabytes of flash memory record up to four hours of video. If someone accuses an officer of wrongdoing, the camera should reveal the truth.
Sophisticated Legal Search Tool Muscles In
Both are due out in the first half of 2008. Additionally, the company licenses its search technology to enterprises for use in KM and other applications. SEARCH FINGERPRINTING The signature characteristic of the Collexis search engine is what it calls "Fingerprinting." Collexis creates a thesaurus (or what might be called a search vocabulary) for each database. Using that vocabulary, it creates a "Fingerprint" of each unique document within the database -- a profile of key concepts contained within the document and their weight. When conducting a basic search, this "Fingerprinting" helps ensure a high degree of relevance in the search results. Collexis ranks the weight of concepts within documents on a number of variables, with specific terms weighted higher than general terms, for example, or words in a title given greater weight than words in the text.
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Gomez confirmed to Hora that he had been arrested and then was released on bail on a domestic violence case and that none other than Goodman put him back in the clink two weeks ago because of a "dirty" or positive drug test. Goodman smiled. Gomez confirmed to the DA that Goodman's order was separate from the inmate's appearance in the jurist's courtroom. Gomez said he was introduced to Reiser while both were in jail. Reiser introduced himself as Thomas, Gomez said. (Thomas is Reiser's middle name). Hora played the KTVU clip for the jury. We see Kraig Debro doing a quick teaser for the body story. We see reporter Claudine Wong doing an intro for another story. We hear the familiar Channel 2 anthem. We see Steve Paulson giving a quick weather update, followed by Sal Castaneda and traffic.
Dark Sector interview with David Kudirka: no PC version and no movie ...
David Kudirka: First of all, what gives specificity to the game is the use of the Glaive. It is truly a unique weapon. You have to sometimes use it in combination with fire-arms, but you must also use its new capabilities, acquired during the game, in order to create new styles of combat. That changes a lot compared to a simple shooter. And as you advance through the game you'll find more weapons and more ammunition. Moreover, with the Glaive [attached to his body], the hero himself is like a weapon. So he evolves and becomes stronger, which is a very interesting element in a game that wanted to be very open. JF: During the presentation we've seen a lot of intermediary sequences. Their proportion seemed quite important. Just to provoke you a bit, we're just tempted to say if there's any room left for gameplay between two cinematics...
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