Canon Rebel T3 DSLR reviewed: a safe bet for first-time shooters

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• Canon Rebel T3 DSLR reviewed: a safe bet for first-time shooters
• CIA and KGB Spy Weapons: Rectal Escape Kits, Turd Transmitters and Lipstick Guns [Spies]
• Sell Your Car Online, Safely [Safety]
• Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained
• Harry Winston's Opus Eleven watch: mechanical masterpiece / bank breaker (video)
• Create A Hula Hoop Rug [Weekendproject]
• Here's a CF Card Reader Adapter for iPad and iPad 2 [Video]
• Metacritic Now Rating Humans [Ratings]
• ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft
• Earth Hour 2011 starts at 8.30PM your local time, wants you to switch off for a bit

Canon Rebel T3 DSLR reviewed: a safe bet for first-time shooters Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:02 PM PDT Are you a true contrarian looking for a camera that befits your nonconformist lifestyle? Well, Canon's latest entry-level DSLR may not be the most unruly camera out, but at least it sports a moniker that fits the bill. The Canon T3 Rebel, also known as the EOS 1100D, is a 12.2-megapixel affair designed with the DSLR newbie in mind, and according to a review over at PhotographyBlog, it doesn't sacrifice image quality for ease of use. Touted as a successor to the Rebel XS, the T3 actually carries over some useful features from its more sophisticated sibling, the T3i, including a user-friendly control layout, but lacks the camera's Scene Intelligent auto mode and extensive list of creative filters. Aside from that, the reviewer found T3's grips too slick and its diminutive LCD screen a minor setback, but was quick to point out that none of these is a deal-breaker. In fact, aside from a bit of noise encountered at the highest ISO setting, the camera delivers high quality photographs even in low light. All things considered, it looks like the Rebel T3 is a "responsive and intuitive DSLR" for the novice photog, and at $600, it's got at least some of the competition beat. Now, we won't tell you what to do, but if we were you, we'd click the source link to see how the T3 stacks up. Canon Rebel T3 DSLR reviewed: a safe bet for first-time shooters originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:02:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  PhotographyBlog  | Email this | Comments

CIA and KGB Spy Weapons: Rectal Escape Kits, Turd Transmitters and Lipstick Guns [Spies] Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT You didn't think the first set of the historical CIA spykit was all they had, right?Come on! It's the CIA. Here's a few images from another set that also includes some KGB weapons. Some of these "tools" are rather interesting. More »

Sell Your Car Online, Safely [Safety] Posted: 26 Mar 2011 03:00 PM PDT When you go to sell your car, you are opening yourself up to both financial and physical risks. While making the transaction you have to keep your wits about you to watch out for your own interests in the deal. Edmunds, the popular car information and guide site, has some excellent tips on staying safe while selling your car online. More »

Kinect's AI Breakthrough Explained Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:58 PM PDT mikejuk writes "Microsoft Research has just published a scientific paper (PDF) and a video showing how the Kinect body tracking algorithm works — it's almost as impressive as some of the uses the Kinect has been put to. This article summarizes how Kinect does it. Quoting: '... What the team did next was to train a type of classifier called a decision forest, i.e. a collection of decision trees. Each tree was trained on a set of features on depth images that were pre-labeled with the target body parts. That is, the decision trees were modified until they gave the correct classification for a particular body part across the test set of images. Training just three trees using 1 million test images took about a day using a 1000-core cluster.'" Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Harry Winston's Opus Eleven watch: mechanical masterpiece / bank breaker (video) Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:05 PM PDT It's been a while since we gave Harry Winston's Opus watch any play, but some timepieces are just too lavish to pass up. Case in point: the Opus Eleven, designed by temporal taste-maker Denis Giguet of MCT. Aesthetically speaking, it's probably a touch too steampunk for some, but the way it tells time is straight up fascinating. Giguet points out the movement enlists 566 parts, a good deal of which are exposed in the main face -- the center piece displays the hour, while the upper right disc shows off the minutes. Now, it might look like a relatively minimal watch for Harry Winston, but its case is made of 18k white gold and sapphire crystal, and the Opus Eleven's definitely got a Winston-worthy price tag, ringing in at about $250,000. So if you've got a quarter of a mill just laying around, this is a definite contender for that stack of cash. Want to see all those tiny pieces in action? Check out the video after the break. Continue reading Harry Winston's Opus Eleven watch: mechanical masterpiece / bank breaker (video) Harry Winston's Opus Eleven watch: mechanical masterpiece / bank breaker (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink CrunchGear  |  Watch Review Blog  | Email this | Comments

Create A Hula Hoop Rug [Weekendproject] Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:00 PM PDT This simple and cheap project is a good way to teach your kids about weaving using simple things you may have around your home. More »

Here's a CF Card Reader Adapter for iPad and iPad 2 [Video] Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:00 PM PDT MIC Gadget has an iPad adapter that many professional (and semi-professional!) photographers might be interested in: a CF card reader that seems to work really well. They tested it on the iPad 2 and transferred three 21 megapixel photos in 4 seconds. More »

Metacritic Now Rating Humans [Ratings] Posted: 26 Mar 2011 02:00 PM PDT Metacritic, whose 90s, 80s, 70s and dreaded 60s are points of pride and shame for the video game industry, will now be applying ratings to individual game developers, giving them a score based on an average of all the games they've worked on. More »

ISO C++ Committee Approves C++0x Final Draft Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:45 PM PDT Randyll writes "On the 25th, in Madrid, Spain, the ISO C++ committee approved a Final Draft International Standard (FDIS) for the C++ programming language. This means that the proposed changes to the new standard so far known as C++0x are now final. The finalization of the standard itself, i.e. updating the working draft and transmitting the final draft to ITTF, is due to be completed during the summer, after which the standard is going to be published, to be known as C++ 2011. With the previous ISO C++ standard dating back to 2003 and C++0x having been for over eight years in development, the implementation of the standard is already well underway in the GCC and Visual C++ compilers. Bjarne Stroustrup, the creator of C++, maintains a handy FAQ of the new standard." Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Earth Hour 2011 starts at 8.30PM your local time, wants you to switch off for a bit Posted: 26 Mar 2011 01:15 PM PDT In what has become an annual tradition now, the WWF's Earth Hour is presently sweeping across the globe, getting people to switch off non-essential lights and appliances for a sixty-minute kindness to Ma Earth and her finite energy resources. All you'll need to do to participate is power down the old World of Warcraft questing station, turn the TV off, and maybe take a walk outside so your lights don't have to be on, starting at 8.30PM tonight. Half the world's already done its bit and it's now coming around to those in the UK, Portugal and Western African countries to do the same. Will you be part of it? Continue reading Earth Hour 2011 starts at 8.30PM your local time, wants you to switch off for a bit Earth Hour 2011 starts at 8.30PM your local time, wants you to switch off for a bit originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Mar 2011 16:15:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink   |  Earth Hour  | Email this | Comments

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