"Canon's EOS 7D has already become one of the most talked-about DSLRs of 2009. Ahead of our full review, we're pleased to present our High ISO Noise results page, which compares the EOS 7D's output against the EOS 50D, EOS 5D Mark II and the Nikon D300s."
- Andrew Terry
I was at the store today and played with the 7D for a bit. It was interesting. Liked the viewfinder. Nice frames per second. *very* loud shutter though!!!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
"Photoshop whiners of the world: Stop saying words! This is not a photomontage. These two doors and the stair are very real, suspended many feet up on the concrete walls of the Congress Hall in Biel, Switzerland. Of course, those doors and the stairs weren't in the original plans. The original architects weren't as crazy as Sabina Lang and Daniel Baumann, the artists who built this vertigo inducing piece."
- AJ Batac
from Bookmarklet
"See those two screws at the bottom of the picture? If you connect those screws to a switch of some kind, and plug the whole thing into the USB port of a computer, the switch will act as a one-key keyboard. This one happens to be an Enter key."
- ⓞnor
from Bookmarklet
This is an elaborate AFD joke by Jacques, right? (Edit: by "joke", I mean I wouldn't be surprised if the description is accurate, but kind of underpromises what it can do.)
- Andrew C
Wow, he got shinydevices.com? That's a pretty good domain! Also, this device is way, way prettier than I expected. I'm really impressed by how pretty it is.
- niniane
It is kind of pretty. Who is making these?
- Paul Buchheit
Paul: When I first read "$33 for a 1 key keyboard? (minus the actual key)", I thought you were talking about an actual Apple product.
- Gabe
Dan was kind enough to manufacture the plastic casing pictured. It is indeed prettier than I had expected!
- Jacques Frechet
I've been thinking about hacking up a cheap USB keyboard (a la http://www.instructables.com/id... ) for a project. This device looks like it'd be easier, prettier, and possibly smaller, but $33 does seem a bit steep considering the fact that USB keyboards can be found for less than $10, and it sounds like I'd need several of these if I want to control multiple keys.
- Laurence Gonsalves
How 'bout starting with some USB dictation transcription pedals?
- Ken Sheppardson
I hadn't heard of those before. Thanks. From my searches, it looks like they're for "rewind", "play/pause" and "fast-forward". I'm guessing there are special keycodes for those? I could probably remap them to the keys I want with software, but it'd be nice if they could be more "plug-and-play" (so I could move the device between machines without having to set up mappings). Do you know if any of these transcription pedals are configurable through hardware (eg: dip switches)?
- Laurence Gonsalves
BTW: I've actually seen a few companies that made exactly what I'm looking for, but they all seem to be discontinued. This page has a bunch of links: http://www.halfbakery.com/idea...
- Laurence Gonsalves
Laurence: I'm afraid all I know about them is that they exist. Sorry.
- Ken Sheppardson
Those products from piengineering look good. A bit pricey ($119.95 for what is effectively a 3-key keyboard) but they seem to be programmable, and I guess economies of scale work against them.
- Laurence Gonsalves
If you keep increasing the pricetag you'll reach the Optimus 3 Mini, the 3-key keyboard with separate LCD screens for each key. $179.95.
- Amit Patel
Amit, I think the Optimus 3 uses OLED screens, not LCD. Presumably that's why they're so expensive.
- Gabe
The impressive part about those devices seems to be the reprogramming of the device ROM via USB directly from this web page http://shinydevices.com/setting... (check the source)
- Thomas Amberg
Well technically it is.... Notice the ring? Heh.
- Tanath
Soooooo ... they make corded models?
- Steven Perez
Yeah, Steven. Good question. I am guessing that the battery-operated model would go through a couple of Costco pallets worth of Duracells every couple of months....
- Morgan Haley
I think I saw one, once, that was gas-powered. 5-speed with a kick-start if I recall correctly.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
Also, I notice the wedding ring. Only MARRIED women are allowed to enjoy the benefits of a cordless massager.
- Ladybug Heather
You know, if you use rechargeable batteries, you can massage as much as you want without having to run out to the store to get more.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Hmm... and just who is the lady in this photo? I see some resemblance to the senior yearbook photo of our own Ms. FFing Enigma: http://ff.im/5lprH Before she became the Roller Derby Hero we know now, was our own Miz Tina "Daisy Do-Wrong" a glamorous cordless massager model?
- Ladybug Heather
Don't think so, Heather: based on this picture I think this lady could be old enough to be my mother...
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
You're no fun, Tina! ;-) [And yeah, I was born in 1972, so she's old enough to be my----- HEY! WAITAMINNIT!!! MOM!!!]
- Ladybug Heather
I walk the third many times. It's about what my road looks like. But all three are intriguing! The only one that's missing is Anne's "White Way of Delight" (Anne of Green Gables-Prince Edward Island) ;)
- Melanie Reed
I guess it would be like the Lady or the tiger: they all look inviting but what if you knew the prettiest one had the most deadly end? What of the longest one (where you couldn't see the bend in the road up ahead would bring you your heart's desire? Would you take it?
- Melanie Reed
Hi Folks! Today is my birthday, I'm 33! :) And I wanted to celebrate by releasing an idea -and an implementation of it- to the wild! It's Socnode: The basic unit of distributed social networks. http://www.socnode.org/
:) Really glad to have you arround, guys! Jorge, now your turn, man! ;-) Josh! That's *A* HONOR! Watashi wa? Hontoni honto? Arigato Josh san, and hey! Focus Daniel San! ALLWAYS LOOK EYE :) — Mille merçis, Laurent! :)
- directeur
Credit where credit is due: The blue O is an idea by Vijay no baka! The guy who knows how to insult me in japanese and who in return gets his fair share of insults too! Arigato, rokudenashi! :) — Oh and to see the thing in action, go to http://socnode2.appspot.com login with "beta" and password "123" share something and go to http://socnode.appspot.com to see it there too!
- directeur
Thanks Laura! Tunahan, thank you too! And Oh yes! I'm old, and old people don't send DMs to their turkish friends with a shamefull record of them singing in turkish :D
- directeur
otanjoubi omedeto gozaimasu directeur :D btw the Matrix series that rocked the planet was inspired by Ghost in the Shell. Not only that, GITS talks about social media and memes 10 years ago. The anime we watch are far from the silly Powerpuff kiddie anime that people normally see as anime. Watch away directeur, I'm with you :D
- vijay
Happy birthday, Directeur!! Looking forward to checking out SocNode, thanks for sharing!
- Harold Cabezas
Thank you all folks! :) @Vijay: Totally! @Harold, please do! You can try the demo (links above) and check out the source code too! @Cristo: Happy birthady to you too! ;-)
- directeur
Happy birthday, glad to meet you and have you as a FF. Be happy allways, you deserve it.
- Céu de Buarque
Thank you, all! :) Jason, let's hope so! As I often said it in the Dango Daikazoku group, the idea here is really more important than my own django implementation of it -which actually is beautiful too! ;-)
- directeur
A belated happy birthday to you, Directeur. :)
- Brome
holy crap! in what way did they mean this? because you shoot strays that loiter too long? or because your kids will be off in the woods shooting stuff, and therefore not on your lawn bugging you?
- Morgan Haley
They clearly mean goats.......just kidding they totally mean those fatty little brats.
- Geoff Schultz
I bought my son a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas. They're not made of quite as heavy a wood as they were when I was a kid, but still pretty good.
- Joey Gibson
"Bruce Wayne saw bats flying towards him out of a very bright light, haunting him every night during his sleep. The image above shows what is currently haunting every Nikon executive in their sleep at night, causing them to wake up screaming like girly men while bathing in their own sweat. For Bruce Wayne, things got better. But for Nikon, the worst is yet to come."
- Holger Eilhard
from Bookmarklet