When it comes to portable power stations, I’m inclined to say that the ability to store and carry with you a significant amount of energy is priceless. But of course these days you can put a price tag on nearly anything. With portable power stations, that’s usually about $1/watt and $1/watt-hour, at least with the big names in the industry. But with the introduction of several new competitors…
Stockholm-based wind farm and solar developer OX2 has applied for a permit to build a massive 5.5 gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm in the Baltic Sea. If approved, it will be the largest single offshore wind farm in the world.
World’s largest single offshore wind…
Pentax Lenses: Gotta Catch ’em All?
June 29, 2022
Pentax, which is no stranger to unusual strategies when it comes to cameras, announced that it was releasing season-themed photo profiles for a set of its DSLRs that would be locked behind specific lenses. Gotta catch ’em all, I guess? For more, read this week’s Clipped…
The Profoto A2 is a Soda Can-Sized Off-Camera Strobe
June 29, 2022
Profoto has announced the A2 monolight off-camera flash that is about the size of a 12-ounce can of soda. The small and portable strobe is billed as ideal for supporting location shoots like weddings, awards ceremonies, or other events.
The A2 joins the A-series of Profoto lights and the flash head’s diameter is in line with the speedlight-like A10 and significantly smaller than the larger…
DIY-er Sean Billups has transformed his old Google Pixel 3A into a multispectral camera that can view in Ultraviolet (UV) and Infrared (IR) wavelengths that are not normally visible to the human eye.
Multispectral cameras are commonly used by NASA to image the Earth to…
China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) has published a series of detailed images taken by its Tianwen-1 Mars probe that cover the entire surface of Mars.
The uncrewed Chinese spacecraft sent back visuals of various locations of Mars, including its south…
An engineer has created software that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to identify anonymous Holocaust victims in World War II photos.
Numbers to Names (N2N), is an AI-facial recognition platform that can scan through hundreds of thousands of photos from pre-war Europe and the Holocaust and link them to people living today.
In an interview with The Times of Israel, Daniel Patt, a…
Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope isn’t a safe sequel
June 29, 2022
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Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope is looking like a more interesting sequel than you may…
After announcing a partnership with Leica to tune optics, Xiaomi has teamed up with Sony on the massive 1-inch IMX989 sensor, which is set to be utilized by the Xiaomi 12 S Ultra.
This is not the first 1-inch smartphone sensor ever used, as the recent Sony Xperia Pro-I and…
Android Automotive may only be on a couple of cars on the road today, but the platform is set to be used by some major brands over the next few years. Now, BMW is officially committing to using Android Automotive, but without Google’s help.
BMW will use Android Automotive
In a press release this week, BMW has officially confirmed plans to use Android Automotive starting in 2023. The operating…
