From the maker of the LEGO pinhole camera comes the LEGO 35mm camera! Still a pinhole (no one has tackled a lens board or high speed shutter yet) but now you can drop off your art for processing at any one hour photomart.
[via MAKE: Blog]
Author: John
WorkPartner Robot From Finland
This is a pretty incredible looking robot. It’s got the ability to roll on wheels or lock their rotation and use them as a kind of big bouncy feet and walk around. It has a front mount for manipulator arms and a mast for sensors that is about the same height as a humans head. This lets the robot get a more human picture of the world, NASA/JPL did this on the current Mars rover mission. To me the whole thing looks like a centaur. Should be useful around a warehouse or a farm if it can pull a trailer.
[via Ohgizmo]
FSM Immortalized in the Annals of Science
Brilliant choice of subject!
A dense bed of light-sensitive bacteria has been developed as a unique kind of photographic film. Although it takes 4 hours to take a picture and only works in red light, it also delivers extremely high resolution. The "living camera" uses light to switch on genes in a genetically modified bacterium that then cause an image-recording chemical to darken. The bacteria are tiny, allowing the sensor to deliver a resolution of 100 megapixels per square inch.
New Scientist Breaking News – Living camera uses bacteria to capture image
Hayabusa Touch and Go
Looks like the problem plagued space probe Hayabusa did make it’s scheduled landing on asteroid Itokawa after all. During a communications glitch, it kind of bumped into the target a few times. Kind of like a drunk saleryman navigating through a crowded train. The probe didn’t fire the pellet that was supposed to kick up dust and secure the one gram to be returned to Earth. If the probe checks out, they might give it another more controlled try in the next few days.
120 Format Pinhole Camera Kit
As the season of giving is fast approaching you might want to start thinking about gifts. For the young/old kid that is curious about that ‘other’ kind of photography – you know the kind that doesn’t use memory cards and batteries – this might be just the thing to satisfy their creative urges. This is a paper kit that, when finished, produces a very serviceable pinhole camera.
Aluminium Bug Kits
Aluminium insect kits! How cool is that I ask you! These are a big step up from the wooden ones you find in hobby shops, the metal is soft (aluminium) so it can be shaped to look more natural and it has some sort of spring clip deal that might let you pose them slightly. The page says that they are made in Taiwan and as I have a friend that has family there I just might be able to get a hold on one of these sets. The metal mantis would be perfect on my desk at work.
Metal Insect Kits [ translated ]- Photo Gallery [translated]