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You think your Leica’s expensive? This one cost $2.8 million (video)
May 14th
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If you’ve ever baulked at the price of Leica’s rebadged Panasonic cameras, then spare a thought (or some change) for the anonymous buyer of this 1923 0-Series snapper. Vienna’s WestLicht Photographica auctions flogged the prototype for €2.16 million ($2.77 million) and is now the most expensive camera ever sold — beating this $1.9 million 0-Series from last year. If you’d like to see the surprisingly relaxed way the auctioneer handles the recession-baiting sale, head on past the break for the footage.
[Thanks, Rakesh]
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China builds $3.7 billion, 1,373 mile power cable, how was your afternoon?
May 14th
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The State Grid corporation of China is constructing a power line capable of transmitting a staggering 37 billion kWh per year. The record-breaking cable stretches from the power rich eastern Hami Prefecture to the energy-starved city of Zhengzhou towards the east. Costing a twitch-inducing $3.7 billion, when it’s completed in 2014, it’ll be the most capacious link in the world. Rather than rest on that particular laurel, the company is commencing work on a second, slightly smaller line that’ll be used to transmit wind and solar power from Hami to the rest of the country — here we were thinking that skipping our lie-in was an impressive feat.
China builds $3.7 billion, 1,373 mile power cable, how was your afternoon? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 09:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet
May 14th
Here are the latest reports on Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet
Samsung made much ado over the Galaxy S III’s 2,100mAh battery, but we’ve been wondering whether or not that power pack was a major perk or just a necessity to offset that hefty Exynos 4 Quad. One of what looks to be a growing number of escaped pre-release devices was put through the ringer in battery tests and came out looking spic-and-span: it lasted for just over 10 hours for video and voice, or long enough to make even a tablet like the new iPad or Transformer Prime break a sweat. Web browsing wasn’t quite so hot, though, which at a bit over five hours was well behind the seven hours of an iPhone 4S. Don’t expect the seemingly infinite battery of the Droid RAZR Maxx, and don’t be surprised if final devices handle differently, but those with the international Galaxy S III should make it through at least a few interminable meetings watching their favorite reruns… not that we’d condone such a thing.
Samsung Galaxy S III battery tested by GSMArena, lasts as long as your tablet originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 09:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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MacBook Pro and iMac with next-gen Ivy Bridge processors crop up on benchmarks (update)
May 14th
Here are the latest reports on MacBook Pro and iMac with next-gen Ivy Bridge processors crop up on benchmarks (update)
Yup, Apples are bound to flow beneath the Ivy Bridge at some point, but how much of a performance boost will they deliver? If you’re happy to hold onto a little skepticism, then two unexpected appearances on the Geekbench site could offer some early answers. The first purports to be an unknown ‘MacBookPro9,1′ laptop powered by an Ivy Bridge Core i7-3820QM running at 2.7GHz, which achieved a benchmark of 12252 — that’s around 17 percent better than a current equivalent Core i7 15-inch or 17-inch MacBook Pro. The second benchmark comes from an ‘iMac13,2′ running off Intel’s next-gen Core i7-3770 desktop chip clocked at 3.4GHz, which only merits a score of 12183 because it’s hobbled by 4GB of RAM. If you exclude memory and compare only the CPU integer and floating point scores, then you’re looking at a roughly nine percent gain over a current 27-inch iMac with a 3.4Ghz Core i7-2600 processor. Now, these benchmarks could be faked, or represent non-final hardware, but the motherboard codes look valid (see the source links) and they generally tally with what we’ve come to expect from Ivy Bridge: a healthy oar-stroke forwards, but nothing that would frighten the fish.
Update: 9to5Mac has done some digging and come up with a few more interesting tidbits about the upcoming MacBook Pro refresh. For one, code pulled from the Mountain Lion beta appears to indicate that the Ivy Bridge machines will boast USB 3.0 and a new GPU in the NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M. The site also claims that the laptops will be slimmer than the current gen, a rumor that’s we’ve been hearing for quite some time now.
MacBook Pro and iMac with next-gen Ivy Bridge processors crop up on benchmarks (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 08:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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HD video possible in upcoming Leica compact, bon vivants check trust funds
May 14th
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Full-frame HD video in a brand new compact body, with Leica lenses? It could happen, but if you have to ask why exorbitant Leicas don’t already do video then you probably can’t afford it. While still calling the feature “theoretical”, Leica’s chairman Dr. Andreas Kaufmann intimated that the company had solved issues with data rate, battery life and heat for a possible M9 replacement. He also said that HD would be shown soon on “existing and new models”, and Leica would stick with Truesense imaging, the former Kodak shop which supplies the M9 CCD, to make the new full-frame sensor. Whether that means video could also be retrofitted to existing M-series rangefinders remains to be seen, but more will be revealed on September 18th. Until then, if you need to make an extravagant splurge, the Hermes M9-P, perhaps?
HD video possible in upcoming Leica compact, bon vivants check trust funds originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 14 May 2012 08:46:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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The Bizarre History of the Vibrator: From Cleopatra’s Angry Bees to Steam-Powered Dildos [Nsfw]
May 13th
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It Seems That Aliens Are Living Under the White Sea [Nature]
May 13th
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The World’s Largest Wood Stockpile Is Absolutely Insane [Video]
May 13th
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NASA Captures the Sun’s Most Striking Photo Yet [Astronomy]
May 13th
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Loving Kittens Playing In Super-Slow Motion Obviously Is a Cute Overload [Video]
May 13th
Here are the latest reports on Loving Kittens Playing In Super-Slow Motion Obviously Is a Cute Overload [Video]
Is there anything cuter than puppies and kittens playing? Yes, yes there is: puppies and kittens playing in slow motion thanks to the wonders of a Phantom camera. That seems to be one of the main premises of Too Cute: Puppie and Kittens. More »
