March 2009
Monthly Archive
Teens Capture Space Photos For Under $100
Matt 21 Mar 2009 | : Technology
A group of teenagers had a dream of taking photographs of space for a science experiment. When billion dollar space rockets were out of the question, they got creative and came up with a plan to get photos under the $100 project budget. The four students managed to send a camera-operated weather balloon into the stratosphere, 20 miles above earth equiped with a cheap digital camera they programmed to take pictures. The results are astounding.
View more on this at The Telegraph or just view the photos.
Compact Disc Celebrates its 30th Anniversary
Matt 09 Mar 2009 | : Technology
I know CD’s have been around for a while but I had no idea that they were actually older than I am. Although CD’s may not be as popular now as they were 10 years ago, it’s pretty amazing that they’ve been around for this long and are still selling. Originally a spin-off of the much less successful LaserDisc technology, Sony and Philips finally made progress with the Compact Disc when on October 1, 1982 Billy Joel’s 52nd Street became the first CD album to be released. Since then over 200,000,000,000 (200 Billion) CDs had been sold worldwide.
More @ Wikipedia
Clever Google Holiday Logos
Matt 05 Mar 2009 | : Logo Design
Leave it up to Google to have some extremely clever logos depending on what holiday, birthday or other event happened on that day in history. Take the Dr. Seuss logo above. Typically a fun company would do something exciting to celebrate Dr. Sueuss’ birthday but Google goes out and changes their logo for the day. Google has an archive of logos they’ve used over the past few years. It can be found here.
