I'd love to see the video from the Olympic "DiveCam" in action. Despite there being some footage from women's 10m diving, I don't see any taken with this gravity-driven falling camera into the water.

Seems amazing to me there is coverage in the WSJ, including this highly produced graphic simulation, and yet no actual video to look at!

Has anyone else seen this for real?

Very cool example of a use of the open-source firmware for Canon cameras - this timelapse shows the moon setting at sunrise.

Quoted: With the help of the non-destructive, aftermarket firmware, CHDK, installed on my camera, I set the tripod up, and set the camera to fire off as many frames as it could, until it filled the SD card memory. I did not know where the moon would eventually set, nor did I know if the sun would rise too soon, and thus wash everything out, as I could not reset the shutter speed, nor change any other settings once I set the program in motion. It was pure, once in a 'blue moon' kind of luck. ISO 50, shutter speed 1/60th of a second, +2 EV bias, and other info can be seen in the two stills, from this video, that I uploaded previously. The music is a Creative Commons share from: A genius musician and classical guitarist, www.ottmarliebert.com Le Cafe (Arabian Dance) from the album Winter Rose by Ottmar Liebert This project was made possible with the following tools: CHDK, Canon A620, iPhoto, Quicktime, Garageband, all on a 12" Powerbook G4.

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Peter Furia's latest viral video.

Quoted: http://www.invisibleride.comPantless Knights Productions has discovered a new cultural phenomenon known as "ghost whipping". (Not to be confused w...

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With just 4 degrees of freedom, the dancing "blob" Keepon, does a great job of dancing expressively. He's a CMU robot, BTW:

http://beatbots.org/research/

Quoted: The robot Keepon (developed by Hideki Kozima and programmed by Marek Michalowski) dancing to the song "I Turn My Camera On" by the band Spoon. See ...

Randy Pausch finally succumbed to pancreatic cancer. If you missed the video of his lecture, you can catch it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo

Quoted: "But we don't beat the Reaper by living longer. We beat the Reaper by living well," said Dr. Pausch, who urged the graduates to find ...

Tony's interview with Scoble about Rescue Time!

Bill retired from Microsoft today. Nice video here looking back on his life from childhood to today.

Quoted: Watch videos that look back to the story of Bill Gates from his early years, to founding Microsoft and what lies ahead for him and the company he started.

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Really spectacular - don't try this at home.

Quoted: driving at its best :)

Links to the best AppEngine talks from Google IO conference