Not only has  James Cameron had his fair hand dabbling in 3D films, he’s now helping NASA build a high resolution 3D camera to visit Mars. Director Cameron’s latest film is 3D phenomenon ‘Avatar’. By winning Oscar’s for Cinematography and Art Direction, Cameron is now turning his hand to help NASA find life on Mars, ready to launch in Autumn 2011.

The Ocar winning director is working closely with Malin Space Science Systems Inc. of San Diego to help with the development of robot rover, Curiosity (pictured above).  It will be equipped with the new 3D camera, giving the rover the ability to film cinematic sequences of Mars. It’s mission will be to “study the habitability of Mars and whether it can or did support microbial life” says Crave.

When filming Avatar, Cameron used the Fusion Camera System, which is a lightweight 3D camera system. Now Cameron hopes that this technology will help bring Mars to life.

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For those of you that surf the waves and are finding it a bit nippy in this English weather, then take a look at this. A heated wetsuit, designed by Rip Curl. The H-Bomb wet suit is 3/2 millimetres thick with a heating panel for your back. It gives you three settings (controlled by a switch on the lower left side) and so you can decide whether to have short boosts of heat of up to 124 degrees Fahrenheit or a constant low medium or high heat, says Geeky Gadgets.

Although it looks stylish and has a portable ‘plug and play’ desktop heater with slimline battery placement, Wired found that the batteries needed extra cleaning after surfing and came in quite expensive, at $1,000. The heated panel essentially transforms you into a ‘shark friendly hot pocket’ and is maybe more of an expensive gimmick than a snug wetsuit.

A design has been devised for gamers to play their favourite games on a flexible A4 sized piece of silver plastic. This prototype, called Cobra is made possible by using a projector system which is mounted on your shoulder. The game is then controlled by shaking, tapping and bending the  plastic board.

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Within the projector is a camera which tracks three infrared LEDs on the plastic screen. This enables the rotation of the screen and therefore enhances (more…)

If any of you out there have an iPhone or an iTouch, I’m pretty sure, like me, you’ll be constantly on the scout for interesting and cool apps. In this series of articles/posts to start off, this week, I thought I’d tell you about the Sleep Cycle alarm clock. This analyses your sleep patterns by monitoring your movements throughout the night.

Sleep Cycle uses the accelerometer in your iPhone to monitor you as you move from a light  to deep sleep, awakening (more…)

Product Category: Digital Photo Frames

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Old fashioned picture frames are so boring and static. Digital photo frames – on the other hand – let you create slideshows with cool transitions to display all of your vacation, family get together and party pictures. Some of the digital photo frames integrate video, audio, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and a host of other features. The best part is that (more…)

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Transform your  keyboard into a neat package, small enough to fit into your pocket. This USB full size keyboard folds into four segments, resulting in a pocket sized case.  Made by Japanese gadget manufacturers Thanko, this may be your perfect answer in the search to find an aid for (more…)

The arrival of the new Eye-Fi memory card is here. But wait, this is no ordinary memory card. Oh no, this has built in Wi-Fi, meaning that you can instantly upload photos and videos to your computer and to your favorite site – they’ll just land there already organized. Choose from over 20 websites, including Flickr, Facebook, Picasa.

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This SD card automatically geotags (adds geographical identification) your photos as you take them, then wirelessly uploads them from your digital camera to iPhoto across a Wi-Fi network. You can then view your photos on a map and search by location. Pretty cool, eh?

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Clothes that display what mood you are in. Designed and made by Vanessa Sorenson, it detects your mood by connecting to your computer and searches for keywords in your tweets. Therefore you can show your emotions to the world (as long as you’re in a Wi-Fi area i’m guessing!)

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A PowerPoint diagram meant to portray the complexity of American strategy in Afghanistan Imageg Source: NYT

Powerpoint – Microsoft’s presentation tool and part of the Office suite – has made giving colourful presentations and briefs a breeze with its handy graphics editing features. My boss is very fond of Powerpoint and spends most of his time in the office preparing PPTs to brief us. But for military it has become an enemy in disguise. (more…)

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The very new and very exciting Lenovo Lephone is causing quite a stir with it’s clam-shell like look and detachable qwerty keyboard. Not only does it have Wi-Fi, a full touch screen display, 1GHz Snapdragon processor, front and back facing cameras and it runs Android 2.1 OS, but it also comes with a customizable case integrating a speaker system and a secondary battery.

Phew! That’s a lot to take in – but doesn’t it sound good?

Only problem is it’s available just in China. Boo is boo.