Canon officially outs the beautiful, beautiful 7D
If you’re into 7D news, you’ve surely been reading along as we reported the lenses, the features, and then the full press release earlier today. But that was all based on machine translation and furtive backroom phone-cam shots. Now we have the full story (in English) from Canon, and oh my god, did I nail the price or what: Gizmodo (lucky stiffs) got themselves a hands-on. Damn, I wish I had a spare couple thou sitting around right now, this thing is really a hell of a camera. Press release after the jump. Read More
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31 Aug 09 | Inventions that suck: turn a 5 gallon bucket into a wet/dry vac
Just in time for the holiday season, we’re starting to see the usual crop of gadget that are, shall we say, less then top-shelf. I think it’s safe to include this on that list, the BucketVAC. When I read the website for this thing, I feel like I should be wearing a blue shirt and yelling at a camera.
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Inventions that suck: turn a 5 gallon bucket into a wet/dry vac
Did Kidnapper Tail a Google Street View Vehicle?
Last week the world was speechless when we learned that Phillip Garrido had allegedly kidnapped an 11-year old girl in 1991 and held her captive for 18 years. The details of the case are quite monstrous, but we were even more disturbed when we learned that Garrido maintained a bizarre blog titled Voices Revealed. You also may remember a Google MapsGoogle Maps image of Garrido’s address circulating around the web. The overhead view of 1554 Walnut Ave is chilling enough, but a Boing Boing commenter discovered something even more eerie. Zoom in to street view and follow the old dirty van out of the driveway onto Walnut Avenue and down Bown Lane. Notice anything strange? Yep that van appears to be tailing the GoogleGoogle street view vehicle.
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How Meeting the Walrus Landed a YouTube Video an Emmy
How did an interview recorded 40 years ago win a 2009 Emmy? We have a long gestation time, YouTubeYouTube, and peace to thank, reports the Observer. In 1969, then 14-year-old Jerry Levitan made his way to John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto, elbowed a long line of press out of the way and somehow convinced the famous Beatle to give him a 40-minute interview. The conversation made its way from reel-to-reel tape to an animated short almost 4 decades later and was posted to YouTube in 2007. Created with director and animator Josh Raskin and illustrator James Braithwaite, the 5-minute animation was originally developed to be included on DVD with Mr. Levitan’s book, I Met the Walrus: How One Day With John Lennon Changed My Life Forever. Since being posted to YouTube the short won Best Animation at the Manhattan Short Film Festival and was nominated for a 2008 Academy Award.
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In-Flight Wi-Fi: 76 Percent of People Will Change Airlines to Have It
Wi-Fi: probably every reader of MashableMashable has used it, most of us way too much. Most of the time you can grab it on-the-go or on your mobile phone. But for years there’s one place where you couldn’t access it: in the sky. That is, until recently. A wave of airlines, including Virgin America, Delta, United, and Southwest Airlines, have added options for wireless Internet access on their planes in the last few years. Apparently, consumers are noticing, and are looking for more.
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Pretweeting: Twitter Gets a Prediction Market
Think you know what the next hot Twitter trend will be? Now you can put your money where your mouth is. Prediction markets have been a growing trend in recent year. It is essentially a stock market for future events and decisions. For example, people can buy or sell against a specific occurrence – like whether or not the Democrats will lose seats in the 2010 election. With thousands of people buying and selling on that occurrence, you can come up with a prediction that essentially utilized the crowdsourcing of open markets. Now the prediction market has come to Twitter with PreTweeting, a new website that lets you buy specific words being used on Twitter and gives you $10,000 in virtual currency to do it.
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BREAKING: eBay to Announce Deal to Sell Skype
The fate of eBay-owned SkypeSkype has been in question for months now. Back in April, it looked as if eBay was going to spin-off the VoIP service as a publicly traded company. Now we’ve learned that Skype will be sold to private investors. According to the New York Times, eBay will announce a deal tomorrow that will send the popular Internet telephone service to an investment group. It seems as if the group includes the newly formed Andreessen Horowitz venture capital firm, co-founded by Netscape’s founder Marc Andreessen. The deal terms are not yet disclosed.
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Free Music Monday: 10 More Tracks from Around the Web
Hello again music lovers! If you saw last week’s edition, you’ll know that we’re celebrating the #musicmonday TwitterTwitter tradition here at MashableMashable. We’ll give you 10 free downloads and/or streams to check out, and we hope you’ll let us know what types of music you’d like to hear more of. After last week’s inaugural feature we got some great feedback (thanks!) including several requests for submitting tracks. We’d be thrilled to audition any tracks you’d like to send us, so if you’re an artist, promoter or label who’d like to have a track featured here on Free Music Monday, please drop us a line at barb AT mashable DOT com. This week we’ve already got a couple of submissions for your listening pleasure.
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HOW TO: Stalk Your Kids on Facebook and Twitter [VIDEO]
Social media, it’s great for narcissists, analysts, marketers, and brands. But did you know that it’s perfect for overprotective and nosy parents? In fact, according to Today Now, FacebookFacebook and TwitterTwitter are revolutionizing how parents stalk their kids in college. Of course, Today Now is actually a mock-news show by The Onion that parodies shows like the Today Show, but their new video is a must-watch for any avid social media user. It’s hard not to appreciate the humor in the utter honesty and exuberance of guest expert, Gloria, or E-MOM, who talks about how to use the internet to monitor your child’s every move.
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BROWSER WARS: Google Chrome to Come Standard With Sony Computers
GoogleGoogle is stepping up its efforts to increase awareness, and ultimately market share, of its ChromeChrome web browser with a new Sony partnership. Under the deal, Chrome will come pre-installed on Sony’s Vaio line of computers according to the Financial Times. It marks Chrome’s first distribution deal with a hardware vendor, and though Sony’s own share of the computer market isn’t itself big enough to launch Google’s browser into the stratosphere, it’s still an important milestone on Chrome’s road map.
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