Geekonomics

Looks like my favourite camera, the Canon PowerShot G11, just got better! I’m in cyberlust!

London, UK, 14th September 2010 – Canon today announces the new PowerShot G12 – the latest model in the multi award-winning PowerShot G-series trusted by professional photographers the world over. The new model offers photographers best-in-class flexibility and all-round powerful performance, with professional levels of control and support for a wide range of accessories.

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Reported on the Sun and the Telegraph.. Looks convincing enough to me.

But you can try zooming in on this and tell me what you see? Remember to zoom…

This story was quite fascinating to me, although the find of Atlantis on Google Ocean turned out to be not so.

Online retail store making 600million euros in revenue for 2008 and Michael Arrington of TechCrunch hasn’t heard of it, and doesn’t want to either. I guess he’d rather focus on startups that can raise lotsa money but no revenues to show for it. Now, who has an invite for this geek to join Vente-privee.com?

Caught on the news on TODAY :

New scanners to be used across Europe by 2010

BRUSSELS — Digital body scanners which leave little to the imagination will be used by airport security on passengers travelling across the European Union (EU) within two years.

According to a draft European Commission regulation, the new millimetre wave imaging scanners are to be used “individually or in combination, as a primary or secondary means and under defined conditions” to provide a “virtual strip search” of travellers.

The new EU regulation, which will be binding on Britain, is intended to enter into force across the continent by the end of April 2010.

The new imaging technology creates an image of an unclothed body which privacy critics argue “amounts to a virtual strip search” has been tested on a voluntary basis at Heathrow’s Terminal Four. Read more…