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Google’s Project Loon proposes internet distributed by hot air balloon
Author: Jon Daniels
No, we’re not joking. Google is seriously proposing hot air ballon-powered internet access, and has already launched a pilot project in New Zealand. One of the Google[x] moonshot projects, there are a couple of videos embedded after the break explaining the issue, and the technology Google wants to use to address it. The project’s playful logo the custom designed antennas users will use to receive their signal from balloons floating twice as high as commercial airplanes fly. According to Google, in “more than half” of the countries in the southern hemisphere and for two out of three people on earth, internet access is far too expensive.
Developing…
Source: Google Blog, Project Loon (Google+), Project Loon
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Earth, as seen by Raspberry Pi camera attached to weather balloon
Author: Matthew Baker
The Raspberry Pi camera has been out for less than two weeks, and it’s already skirted the final frontier. Armchair astronaut Dave Akerman strapped the $ 25 shooter to the equally inexpensive Raspberry Pi, put it inside a protective case shaped like the berry that inspired the product’s name, and then attached it to a weather balloon. Three hours and quite a few vertical miles later, his experiment was recovered by a stranger several miles from the launch site, who called the phone number written on the side of the Linux powered microcomputer. The resulting photos are beautiful (see more at the source link), and required no help whatsoever from NASA.
Via: Gizmodo
Source: Dave’s World
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I’d Ride That: A 20-Foot Balloon Animal Dinosaur
Author: Rod Sutherland
This is the 20-foot long (it looks longer to me but I’ve ridden genuine dinosaurs though so I should understand) balloon animal Acrocanthosaurus built by balloon-twisting expert (and spectacular dude to have at a kid’s birthday celebration) Larry Moss and his group at Airigami for Virginia’s Museum of Natural History. Due to the fact that if there’s two things children like, it’s balloons and dinosaurs. If there’s three things kids like, it’s balloons, dinosaurs, and eating their own boogers. \* licking finger \* Like homemade Play-Doh.
Hit the jump for numerous more shots and a time-lapse of the dinosaur being made. Which, for the record, is nothing like how God did it (he was into clay).
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AHAHAHAHA: Metal Gear Solid Snake Balloon Animal
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This is a Solid Snake balloon animal sculpture. You might argue he’s not actually a balloon ANIMAL, but you’d be wrong, because he’s a snake. Also, I’m not sure what the hell that guy from the carnival is doing there but he let goat-boy escape again there’s going to be hell to pay.
Thanks to ChaosLes, who loves chaos so much sometimes he runs through a crowd as fast as he can yelling, “TIGER ON THE LOOSE!”
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Ladies Get The Breaking Water Balloon Hair Treatment
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Bear in mind the series of bald men with breaking water balloon “wigs”? Well right here’s another series of the very same thing, other than with bald women. As you can see, this lady right here looks suspiciously like a cyborg, so she most likely short-circuited right after the image was taken. Reminds me of the time I 9-volt batteried my nips in the tub. Unassociated depressing reality: I just located out I have lower back hair. It’s like, between my spinal column and love deals with. I discovered it when I was inspecting my ass in the mirror for dingleberries and virtually passed out from disgust with myself.
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Motorola Droid RAZR HD guides slip out to the web, pop the hype balloon (video)
Author: Buck Howard
Not that we were on pins and needles wondering just what Motorola’s September 5th event would certainly include, however just what vestige of mystery was left may just have actually been sapped away. A quartet of Motorola tutorial videos recently uncovered by YouTube individual revowii walk users with the unannounced XT926, better known in unofficial circles as the Droid RAZR HD. It’s all about the looks in this leak: aside from the noticeable link to Verizon, what’s usually confirmed here is the expected usage of a customized Android 4.0 with on-screen navigation keys, much like the Atrix HD in AT&T’s corner of the cosmos. Earlier murmurings have the Droid RAZR HD carrying the exact same Snapdragon S4, 720p display and LTE also, which might leave the CDMA voice network, NFC and possibly raised storage space as the only real distinctions. We’ll understand the full truth in about 2 weeks’ time, however those who don’t mind a peek into the possible future can easily hop past the story break to indulge in some video presentation time traveling.
Filed under: CellphonesMotorola Droid RAZR HD guides elope to the internet, pop the media hype balloon (video) initially appeared on Engadget on Sun,19 Aug 2012 17:20:00 EDT. Please see our terms for usage of feeds. Permalink|Droid-Life|Email this|Opinions
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Mmmm, Air Steak: Butcher Shop’s Meat Balloon Display
Author: Jade Kim
New York City butcher shop Japan Premium Beef recently had these meat balloons (created by design firm ODL) on display in their front window to…actually I don’t know why. To make customers think you’re a novelty balloon store? They don’t look very appetizing, I can tell you that. Well, except for the long brown ones in the front — give me two of those. Oooh — and a *tehehe* RUMP roast. One time I was at the grocery story and asked the butcher for a steak cut from as close to the butthole as possible and then made chomping sounds with my teeth. He asked me to leave, true story.
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Amazon’s Kindle deal with Waterstones deflates Nook’s global balloon
Author: Brian McKinnell
Amazon’s deal to sell Kindle e-readers at UK bookseller Waterstones isn’t just a curio particular to the e-book market in England or a point in the long, declining curve of traditional bricks-and-mortar bookstores. It’s also a case study of contrasts between short-term and strategic thinking. Let’s start with the short play and move on from there.
For Waterstones, partnering with Amazon immediately solves a short-term problem with long-term implications. Its customers are increasingly moving towards digital readers. Amazon’s Kindle gives Waterstones a chance to move with them, using what’s far and away the most popular e-reading platform in the UK. As James Daunt, Managing Director of Waterstones, told The Bookseller, “ultimately, when…
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Project Aether films northern lights at 100,000 feet using a GoPro camera on a balloon (video)
Author: Jesus Sargent
Sadly we can’t all be spacemen. Commercial travel beyond the atmosphere is getting closer but still priced way, way, way beyond the budgetary constraints of mere human beings. The closest many of us will get to outer space is photography and, thanks to ever-cheaper and ever-more-durable cameras, getting those pictures is easier than ever. We recently visited Project Aether on location in Fairbanks Alaska, a group working to study what happens in the upper atmosphere and, along the way, inspire students around the world. Using a helium-filled weather balloon and a payload made of carbon fiber tubing, the team lofted a set of GoPro HD Hero 2 cameras, one of which captured photos of the green aurora borealis and, off to the side, the lingering the glow from a long-set sun. That black arc below? That’s the earth.
We’ll have much, much more to come on Project Aether in an upcoming Distro feature, but for now, enjoy the video below — and keep your head in the clouds.
Project Aether films northern lights at 100,000 feet using a GoPro camera on a balloon (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Daily Crunch: Balloon Edition
Author: Tyler Evans
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