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Tuesday, 07 June 2011 15:20

Camera Lens Cap Holder Finally Gets It Right

By Charlie Sorrel
June 7, 2011 |
9:20 am |
Categories: Cameras

The Camera Lens Cap Holder eliminates distracting dangle

I have seen a bunch of different “solutions” to the problem of lost lens caps, but none of them really wor...

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Dinosaurs Walking at Boston's Museum of Science

Robotic T. Rex. Image courtesy of the Museum of Science

Dinosaurs have been a highlight of Boston’s Museum of Science for decades. The Museum’s original Tyrannosaurus Rex model was positioned in the lower level to place its head at your eye level, so it would stare at you as you walked in. A new, horizontally aligned model now towers over the permanent dinosaur exhibit in the lower level of the Blue Wing. (In case you missed that update from the paleontologists, the mighty dinosaur did not stand upright.) So the original model was moved outside to the Museum’s drive and stares down at the Duck...

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Verizon Ban on 4G Tethering Apps Violates Openness Rule: Complaint

An activist group asked federal regulators Monday to require Verizon to allow its Android customers to use their 4G smart phones as modems for other devices, citing openness rules the carrier agreed to when it bought the spectrum in 2008.

FreePress, an online rights group that supports net neutrality, argues that the nation’s largest wireless carrier asked Google to remove so-called tethering apps from the Android Market — because Verizon wants to charge $20 a month for subscribers to use their phone as an ad hoc modem.

FreePress says that request violates the openness rules that the FCC...

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