| 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.
GestureTek/Imagination Launch AirPoint, World's First Hand-Tracking ...
TORONTO, Dec. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- GestureTek Inc. -- world leader and patent-holder in camera-enabled gesture interfaces for interactive displays -- today launched its revolutionary new AirPoint System, and announced the first installation for Fortune 500 client, Shell Group. AirPoint is a compact hand-tracking unit that allows users to control interactive multi-media content on any computer or display screen by making simple hand motions above the unit. No interface device is required. Imagination, a global design and communications agency representing Shell, approached GestureTek after several successes with GestureTek's leading-edge point and control technology for other clients, including Ford, Samsung, Bell Canada and the Singapore Infocomm Development Authority. Imagination was looking for the latest innovation in gesture interface technology.
Verizon Video Customers Get Choice Seat to Premier Green Bay-Dallas ...
NEW YORK, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Consumers who subscribe to Verizon FiOS TV or to DIRECTV through Verizon have a choice seat for Thursday night's much-anticipated matchup between the NFL teams with the best record in the National Football Conference -- the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. Verizon offers the NFL Network, which will broadcast the game nationally on Thursday night, at no extra charge as part of its standard (Premier) service package, as will DIRECTV from Verizon. The game, which most cable companies won't carry and for which others charge extra, also is available online to Verizon video customers who subscribe to Verizon broadband -- FiOS Internet or Verizon High Speed Internet -- and offers features not found elsewhere. Viewers of the NFL Network Game Extra online broadcast will have access to alternate camera angles and live audio feeds and have the ability to view one of four camera angles, or all four angles simultaneously.
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Once again I apologize with all my heart to the staff of the Potawotomi Casino in Kansas." Wherever Borat touched down, he left a shaken populace in his wake. In Washington, D.C., he rocked a Gay Pride parade -- "Many peoples friendly to me in America. In Washingtons, a guy in bikinis grab my busherka," Borat exclaims. But his travels through the South left an especially strong imprint on Borat and his "subjects." Baron Cohen, as Borat, infuriated audience members at a Salem, Virgina rodeo by singing the Kazakh "national anthem" to the tune of the American anthem. After the rendition, a group of irate rodeo hands on horseback surrounded the filmmakers' van, demanding that they be lynched. Also in the South, Borat tried to figure out the American art of shopping -- strangest of all, the practice of paying lots of money for old things called "antiques." At a small antique store, Borat is incredibly clumsy and manages to destroy hundreds of dollars of items.
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But the expectations for Amazon's infrastructure service for uptime may be unrealistic. Amazon is not enterprise-ready–99.99 (52.6 minutes of downtime annually) or 99.999 (5.26 minutes of downtime annually). At least Amazon has a service level agreement. The SLA states that Amazon will "use commercially reasonable efforts to make Amazon S3 available with a Monthly Uptime Percentage (defined below) of at least 99.9% [8.76 hours of downtime per year] during any monthly billing cycle (the 'Service Commitment'). In the event Amazon S3 does not meet the Service Commitment, you will be eligible to receive a Service Credit as described below." We also discuss the major management shuffle at Microsoft (Mary Jo Foley has the line up, complete with photos), the latest twist and turns in Microsoft's pursuit of Yahoo and the adoption of Enterprise 2.0 technologies in corporations.
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