June 27, 2011

Vibration tester manufacturer Fluke recently published this video showing what the world of vibration looks like at 1,000 frames per second.

Instead of labeling their memory cards in MB/s, some manufacturers choose to use "Times" ratings (e.g. 8x, 12x, 20x, etc...). While it's pretty clear that a higher number indicates faster speed, what exactly is the number a multiple of?

Apparently some people are becoming so rich through China's economic boom that they're using Canon 5D Mark IIs as ashtrays now. These are probably the same people that might use this Canon coffee table.

On August 4, 2006, AOL published a text file containing 20 million searches done by 650,000 users over a 3-month period for research purposes. Although the company anonymized the data by showing the users as numerical IDs, people soon realized that many people searched for personally identifiable information (e.g. their names), allowing real names to be put to unique IDs, thus revealing the search history of that individual. After the media caught wind of this, the whole thing was known as the …

Editor's note: The guest author of this DIY tutorial, Vadim Gordin, is also selling DIY kits and ready-made Lens Loop slings for $15 and $25, respectively. You can find the project over on Kickstarter.

Wedding photographer Brian Adams and wedding videographer Rainer Flor claim to be the first to capture a wedding entirely using the iPhone 4. Flor volunteered his own wedding last November for the experiment, and a total of three iPhone 4s were used: two for the photos and one for the video.

There's a new entry in the list of most expensive photographs, and this time it's not a fine art photo. Over the weekend, the only existing photograph of legendary outlaw Billy the Kid sold at auction for a whopping $2.3 million to billionaire Bill Koch, becoming the 4th most expensive photo in the world.

Someone wasn't careful while using the "Swatches" panel in Photoshop and accidentally spilled it all over this bed spread! …