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DXG Introduces First Underwater Ditigal
Camera for Less Than $139 - Compact
Digital Camera Features Protective
Housing for Active Lifestyle Uses

DXG Introduces First Underwater Ditigal
Camera for Less Than $139 - Compact
Digital Camera Features Protective
Housing for Active Lifestyle Uses 07/06/2004 03:09 AM
DXG, one of the world's largest digital camera manufacturers and designers, today announced a digital underwater and waterproof camera for everyday outdoor use. At $139 with capabilities of up to 6.6 megapixels, the DXG-308U sets a new price/performance benchmark for rugged outdoor cameras that can be used in a variety of settings. [PRWEB Jul 6, 2004]

Nikon D2X & Underwater Housing Reviewed
(Verdict: Awesome)

Nikon D2X & Underwater Housing Reviewed
(Verdict: Awesome) 03/17/2005 03:51 AM

Wetpixel has a review of both the Nikon D2X 12.4 MP camera and its Subal ND2 underwater housing. The pictures produced by the camera are vibrant and incredibly well-balanced, which you would expect for the $5,000 it costs. Still, reviewer Dr. Alex Mustard says that if you don't need very large output sizes for your shots, you can purchase a Nikon D70 for considerably less that produces rather decent underwater shots. The housing is designed very well and offers excellent ergonomics—an important consideration when on a dive. Dr. Mustard muses "It costs $5,000. And if you fill it up with water, it is worth $0," but goes on to say "in a word, [the D2X] is awesome." Some gorgeous pics accompany the review, so be sure to check them out. (Thanks, Eric!)

Nikon D2X and Subal ND2 Review [Wetpixel]

New underwater digital camera

New underwater digital camera 11/04/2003 12:13 PM
New waterproof underwater digital camera from Ffreefire (that isn't a typo, either). The EWC300F is submersible to a depth of five meters, has a decent resolution of two megapixels, and uses SD memory cards for image storage. Read [Via I4U]...

Underwater Bot Roams the Seas

Underwater Bot Roams the Seas 04/06/2005 04:59 AM
Oceanographers have high hopes for a new generation of inexpensive, autonomous underwater vehicles that can undertake long journeys and capture data on climate shifts and the world's oceans. By Stephen Leahy.

New Underwater Volcano Discovered (AP)

New Underwater Volcano Discovered (AP) 05/20/2004 03:56 PM
AP - A previously unknown underwater volcano has been discovered off the coast of Antarctica, the National Science Foundation said Thursday.

New underwater volcano discovered

New underwater volcano discovered 05/20/2004 11:34 PM
AP via New Jersey Online May 21 2004 4:06AM GMT

That Special Underwater Glow

That Special Underwater Glow 08/17/2004 03:47 AM
Many coral colonies have a nice healthy glow about them, but the glow from certain colonies of great star coral in the Bahamas was different.

Conductor Leads Underwater 'Performance'
(AP)

Conductor Leads Underwater 'Performance'
(AP) 07/10/2004 09:17 PM
AP - Using a red snorkel as a baton, a symphony conductor in scuba gear led a group of underwater "musicians" wearing tuxedos and sequins Saturday at the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

Technology in Extreme Places: Underwater

Technology in Extreme Places: Underwater 04/08/2005 10:24 AM
The research vessel Aegaeo lumbered along the Greek coast to a point 85 nautical miles southwest of Athens: the island of Kythira.

How well would your data centre work
underwater?

How well would your data centre work
underwater? 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
ZDNet Apr 13 2005 5:36AM GMT

Can You Patent Purchasing Underwater
Options?

Can You Patent Purchasing Underwater
Options? 01/05/2004 04:56 AM
The latest in bizarre patent applications is a business model patent being applied for by JP Morgan for the concept of buying underwater stock options. How is this patentable? That's unclear, but the folks at JP Morgan think they've hit onto something. They think that many companies trying to help employees get rid of underwater options may sell them to Morgan - following Microsoft's lead (where Microsoft let employees switch over from stock options to restricted stock). Of course, now that the economy is starting to pick up again, companies (and their employees) may be more interested in holding on to their options. Either way, it doesn't explain how making a risky investment is patentable. It's certainly not an original idea. I remember discussing just such a business model with some people in 1998 - when we knew a few people who had left jobs where their options were underwater, and who had no interest in buying them. Of course, we realized that the risk of buying underwater options on a regular basis meant that it could be quite difficult to ever actually make any money - but the folks at JP Morgan are betting the market is turning around and are hoping to buy up now before anyone realizes it.

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers

Acoustic Underwater Communication
Computers 06/30/2004 09:23 AM

Although calling it "underwater SMS" might be a little misleading, the underwater diving computers recently purchased by the Australian Navy from Nautronix sound extremely useful -- and use sound to communicate. The Windows-based PCs use both GPS and sonar to track the position of the divers and underwater object, and can beam messages from one machine to another via acoustically powered network, not unlike a telephone modem. The manufacturer has a wide array of products designed to facilitate communication wireless underwater, where radio waves are often soaked up and diffused by the water.
Read - Underwater SMS for Navy divers [TheAustralian via Panbo]

Notes and Tips: Underwater Help Needed

Notes and Tips: Underwater Help Needed 05/08/2004 10:22 AM
Lack of an old Mac card is holding up an oceanographic project.

Thai Cops to Deploy for Underwater
Wedding (AP)

Thai Cops to Deploy for Underwater
Wedding (AP) 01/16/2004 10:56 AM
AP - Concerned about a spate of violence, possibly linked to Islamic militants, police will provide maximum security for 36 couples who plan to exchange vows in an annual mass underwater wedding in southern Thailand, an official said Friday.

Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream

Underwater Robot to Re-Cross Gulf Stream 03/26/2005 05:03 PM

In Search of New Power Source, City
Looks Underwater

In Search of New Power Source, City
Looks Underwater 07/10/2004 08:56 AM
New York hopes underwater windmills, or "tidal turbines," can turn the energy of the East River into a clean electricity source.

Ancient Skeleton Found In Underwater
Cave

Ancient Skeleton Found In Underwater
Cave 09/10/2004 08:32 PM
Free Internet Press Sep 11 2004 0:55AM GMT

VideoRay Underwater Robot Finds Wallet
Lost 10 Years Ago

VideoRay Underwater Robot Finds Wallet
Lost 10 Years Ago 07/04/2004 02:17 AM
Cash Still in Decent Condition After Decade in Lake Superior [PRWEB Jul 4, 2004]

New Species of Underwater Bone-Eating
Worm Found (Reuters)

New Species of Underwater Bone-Eating
Worm Found (Reuters) 07/30/2004 07:02 AM
Reuters - Two new species of primitive worms that feed off the bones of dead whales have been discovered off the coast of California, scientists reported on Thursday.

VideoRay Underwater Robot Aids United
Nations in Tsunami Cleanup

VideoRay Underwater Robot Aids United
Nations in Tsunami Cleanup 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) rushed to Phuket, Thailand with Expert Training [PRWEB Jun 1, 2005]

VideoRay Underwater Remotely Operated
Vehicle (ROV) Purchased by Monterey Bay
Aquarium

VideoRay Underwater Remotely Operated
Vehicle (ROV) Purchased by Monterey Bay
Aquarium 06/05/2005 11:52 PM
Underwater Robot to assist in Aquatic Husbandry and Specimen Collection / Environmental Monitoring at Monterey Bay Aquarium [PRWEB May 18, 2005]

Making a pin hole camera that actually
looks like a camera

Making a pin hole camera that actually
looks like a camera 01/09/2004 10:10 PM
Communist-era Czechoslovakian Paper Pinhole camera .. Dirkon - The Paper Camera [pinhole.cz]

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Taking The Camera Out Of The Camera
Phone

Taking The Camera Out Of The Camera
Phone 11/04/2003 07:06 PM
We've had a lot of stories in the last six months or so about shortsighted companies deciding to simply ban camera phones outright. In the past, I wondered if such rules would have an impact on mobile phone sales, but I didn't expect the carriers to jump on this topic so quickly. Put me in the same surprised boat as Alan Reiter to hear that carriers are convincing mobile phone handset makers to offer multiple versions of their phones: one with a camera and the other without. I really thought that with only a few companies overreacting and missing the point about camera phones, it would blow over, and a decade from now we'd be laughing at silly companies banning camera phones. At this rate, that might not be true. This is going to be a huge waste of money. Designing a new phone will take some money, and will create a phone that offers less value to the customer (and less opportunity for revenue for the carrier). However as camera phones begin to find more acceptance in the marketplace, people are going to get angry when their boss tells them the expensive phone they just bought can't be brought into the office. They're not going to want to buy the version without the camera if part of the reason they're upgrading is for the camera in the first place. This is a (costly) over reaction to a technology that will do nothing to stop the real problem (theft of corporate secrets or invasion of privacy), but will cost lots of money and anger many people.

Digital Camera Help Website MalekTips
Offers a Holiday Digital Camera Buying
Guide

Digital Camera Help Website MalekTips
Offers a Holiday Digital Camera Buying
Guide 12/19/2004 03:45 PM
Free advice when shopping for digital cameras - what to look for and what to avoid. [PRWEB Dec 7, 2004]

i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing

i-Buddie USB 2 HDD Housing 11/18/2003 11:34 AM
vnunet.com Nov 18 2003 10:29AM ET

So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising
Here?

So Why Are Housing Prices Still Rising
Here? 03/08/2004 11:18 PM
SF Chronicle: Offshoring's giant target. Jobs are more likely to be shipped overseas from Silicon Valley than any other region in the nation, placing the Bay Area's economic engine directly in the path of the global freight train known as offshoring.

The Housing Bubble, Continued

The Housing Bubble, Continued 06/19/2004 12:14 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Economy boosts valley home prices. The median price of a home in Santa Clara County reached $590,000, up 20.2 percent from May 2003, according to DataQuick Information Systems. A total of 2,149 resale houses changed hands in the county last month, a nearly 30 percent increase from a year earlier.

It's much more than the economy at work here. It's a mindless, dangerous bubble that shows what a short attention span human beings have when they are infected with greed and/or panic. This particular news story ends witha local public defender who found a lender that offered a "zero-down" loan -- that is, loaned the full selling price with no down payment. I can understand the borrower's motive, though I think it's an incredibly risky move, but the bank making this loan is just irresponsible. So is the real-estate industry that promotes this kind thing, but that's par for the course. Of course, the lender will now push this mortgage into the national market, offloading it to some other company. This is how we have such liquid markets, and the system was a boon in the past, greased as it has been by the likes of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the giant federal home-loan operations that act as though they have the full faith and credit of the U.S. taxpayer behind them even though they do not. But it is not sustainable, yet nobody in power dares mess with this machinery. What we'll see eventually, if we don't find a way to slowly deflate this bubble, is a massive collapse of the housing market that will in turn spark a severe recession. The truly scary scenario, still not the most likely but growing in probability every day, comes when falling prices for housing lead to massive collapses in the financial industry. But if that occurs, the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs and the money-center banks with big exposure will be considered too big to fail. We taxpayers will bail them out to the tune of several trillion dollars, an amount that'll make the S&L bailout of the 1980s seem tiny. And the only way that will work will be to re-ignite inflation on an absolutely massive scale, because the only way to make it work will be to ratchet up the money supply in unprecedented fashion. This is a bubble. It will deflate. If it doesn't deflate gently, the nation is in for the worst kind of pain.

UK housing boom continues

UK housing boom continues 04/29/2004 05:01 AM
House prices have picked up again, rising by 2.1% during April, but may cool in the second half of the year says the Nationwide.

Nailing the Housing Market

Nailing the Housing Market 03/22/2005 06:34 PM
KB Home reports excellent first-quarter results. But investors beware.

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble

Freddie Mac: No Housing Bubble 07/30/2004 12:20 PM
Salim Haji gets the scoop on why Freddie Mac believes that the U.S. real estate market today is rational.

Housing Bubble, Continued

Housing Bubble, Continued 04/11/2004 01:19 PM

Mercury News: As offers pour in, cutthroat market a boon for sellers. The fast-paced, competitive nature of this spring's Bay Area housing market has participants and observers alike speculating on the reasons -- particularly after three years of severe job losses.

The story goes on to offer all the usual reasons, such as a shortage of houses and low interest rates. But there's another very good explanation: rampant speculation of another kind, inducing panic buying like the kind that occurred in the stock market in the late 1990s. This is a bubble that will deflate eventually. It's happening elsewhere, as this NY Times story notes today. The mania will end here, too, and it'll be ugly.

finally, affordable housing!

finally, affordable housing! 03/17/2005 03:20 AM
Build a huge house for only $782?! Low-cost housing for the masses! Unfortunately, you have to travel back in time to build houses for less than $1000. How many of these homes are in your town or on your block? (courtesy of J-Walk)

Housing curbs for new EU migrants

Housing curbs for new EU migrants 04/26/2004 06:45 PM
Tony Blair will announce curbs on "economically inactive" migrants from new and would-be EU states.

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble

Pop Goes the Global Housing Bubble 06/17/2005 04:21 PM
The Global Housing Price Bubble is bursting. Prices are already declining in Australia and Britain. The Economist has another story that outlines how a global bursting of this bubble could be deleterious to the world's economy. The bubble is bigger than the stock market bubble of the late 90s. Will there be a smooth landing or will spending collapse when it cannot be funded on housing price gains?

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble?

Who Cares About the Housing Bubble? 04/13/2004 10:07 AM
A swig of Pepto and a small perspective shift is overdue.

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP)

Dow Down 43 After Drop in Housing Starts
(AP) 02/18/2004 08:15 PM
AP - A drop in housing starts and a rally in the U.S. dollar on currency markets sent stocks lower Wednesday as the news gave investors an incentive to collect profits.

Annals of the Housing Bubble

Annals of the Housing Bubble 05/21/2004 10:01 PM

Mercury News (reg req): Median home prices pass half-million mark. The median price of resale houses sold in the Bay Area reached $520,000 last month -- the first time that figure has exceeded the half-million point.

Lunacy.

No compassion in housing proposal

No compassion in housing proposal 09/22/2004 10:33 AM
Funny, we didn't hear any of the Republicans who used New York City as the backdrop of their convention last month talking about the administration's plans to fo rce poor families to either pay hundreds of dollars in extra rent or go homeless. But we're sure George Pataki, Michael Bloomberg, and Rudy Giuliani are going to talk to their Republican friends in Washington and take care of this pronto.

The Housing Bubble Builds

The Housing Bubble Builds 07/08/2004 02:12 PM
The real estate market remains strong despite rising interest rates.
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Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater
Demolition Team Chrono Reviewed
(Verdict: Beefy)

Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater
Demolition Team Chrono Reviewed
(Verdict: Beefy) 06/24/2005 04:01 PM

Friend-of-Gizmodo Scott reviewed his heavy-duty Chase Durer Chronograph, a big, beefy quartz thing that I actually saw on the wrist of Greg Kihn last night. He was one of the contestants of Beat Me Baby One More Time or whatever it's called.

But I digress. This is a quartz chrono with PVD coated body and bracelet. It's water resistant to 1000 feet, meaning you can go diving for the lost treasure of Atlantis. In terms of underwater demolition, however, the watch does not have a remote timer/detonator even though it certainly does look like it should have one.

Review - Chase Durer Special Forces Underwater Demolition Team Chronograph [WristWatchReview.com]

Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP Digital Camera
for $200

Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP Digital Camera
for $200 06/01/2004 01:53 PM

Although you'll want to read the copious reader reviews before you jump right in (they vary anywhere from exuberant satisfaction to implications that the inner mechanisms might be constructed of matters fecal), the Canon PowerShot A70 3.2MP Digital Camera can be had for only $199.88, which is about $25 or so better than anywhere else on the web, plus free shipping. You can even throw in a cheapo pleather case for another $5.
Read - Canon Powershot A70 [Amazon via Slickdeals]
Read - Canon PSC-60 Soft Camera Case [Amazon]

Canon to release 7.1MP PowerShot G6
digital camera

Canon to release 7.1MP PowerShot G6
digital camera 08/23/2004 08:51 AM
Canon U.S.A. Inc. has introduced its new 7.1-megapixel PowerShot G6 digital camera. The new US$699 camera is expected to be released in September features a 2.0-inch LCD monitor that can be positioned 270 degrees, a 4x optical zoom with a 35-140mm 35mm equivalent lens. It also sports faster start-up time, simultaneous RAW and JPEG recording, and a 640x480 movie mode. Zooming from wide to telephoto has been shortened by 30 percent compared to the PowerShot G5, and auto focus speed has also been increased by up to 55 percent.

Canon debuts PowerShot A520 4-megapixel
camera

Canon debuts PowerShot A520 4-megapixel
camera 02/01/2005 09:53 PM
Canon U.S.A. Inc. on Tuesday introduced its PowerShot A520 digital camera. The point-and-shoot 4-megapixel digital camera features a 4x optical zoom and is lighter and smaller than the A510 model it complements. Canon expects the new camera to go on sale in March for US$299.99.

Canon intros 4MP PowerShot A520 digital
camera

Canon intros 4MP PowerShot A520 digital
camera 02/01/2005 09:21 PM
Canon today announced the four megapixel PowerShot A520 compact digital camera, which the company says is 13 percent smaller and 10 percent lighter than previous models, and is also equipped with a longer 4.0x 35-140mm (35mm format equivalent) optical zoom lens...

Canon PowerShot S60

Canon PowerShot S60 05/20/2004 09:55 AM
I'm a little late to the party with this, but somehow I totally missed Canon's announcement of the PowerShot S60, so I figure there was a chance some of you missed it, too. Canon has updated the S50 with a...

Canon Powershot 520

Canon Powershot 520 02/01/2005 09:08 PM

Canon continues to flesh out its popular Powershot A Series of consumer cameras with the Powershot A520, a four-megapixel snapper with a 4x optical zoom. With an estimated price of $300—and a street price probably far below that—the 520 continues Canon's line of high-quality, easy-to-use cameras that don't take a lot of savvy to manage. Seriously, cheap memory card format (MMC/SD), common battery type (AA), and really nice quality images—what's not to like?

The 520 is the follow-up to the Powershot 510, which was just announced a week or two back.

Canon PowerShot A520 [LivingRoom]
Canon PowerShot A520: big brother to PowerShot A510 [BIOS]

Canon PowerShot S410

Canon PowerShot S410 08/22/2004 07:35 PM
ZDNet Aug 23 2004 0:32AM GMT

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