Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

NASA JPLNews posted a video showing how the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory will occur. This is a very complex landing system, hope they get it right. Actual landing date is August the 5th, 2012

165TB of New Imagery Added to Bing Maps

Bing Maps released a new set of imagery to their maps service, Bing Maps. This publication is the largest set to be released by bing ever. The latest Aerial release includes new Satellite imagery as well as Global Ortho photography. Both releases total 165 terabytes of new data live on Bing Maps. Prior to this, our existing Aerial footprint was 129 terabytes total.

AERIAL: HIGH-RESOLUTION NADIR OR "STRAIGHT DOWN" ORTHOPHOTOS TAKEN BY AIRCRAFT OR SATELLITE

This release features imagery over North America, South America, Africa, Australia, Europe and Asia. The total area covered in this data release is nearly 38 million square kilometers.

Testing dlvr.it

Testing dlvr.it

Logitech Mouse for MMO Gamers

Logitech announced a new addition to the Logitech G-Series: The G600 MMO Gaming Mouse, highly customizable and easy-to-use mouse specifically designed for MMO gamers.

The mouse features 20 programmable buttons – including 12 thumb buttons, set in two groups of six on a meticulously designed thumb panel – all in easy reach for quick and easy no-look navigation and faster game play. With three default profiles – two for MMOs and one for general gaming – it’s set up for optimal use right out of the box, no drivers required. And, it has a G-Shift button that easily doubles the number of actions you can perform, giving you complete control in your favorite MMOs.

RIP Mr. Trololo - Eduard Khil (1934-2012)

Solar Powered Keyboard by Logitech

Logitech launched a super awesome must-have gadget earlier this week. A solar powered wireless keyboard for Macs, iPads or iPhones. Too bad it's only for Mac or iOS devices, it would have been awesome to be compatible with my Asus Transformer. So if you're all about green and small CO2 footprints this is for you and of course if you like super awesome gadgets.

Features:

• Light Powered (Obviously) even indoors and in low light condition. If fully charged it will work for an extended period of time (three months) If you're in the arctic circle with two of these babies you're set for 6 months of darkness, bad thing is that only your keyboard will have power and not your mobile devices.
• Bluetooth
• Concave Key Design
• PVC-Free construction, fully recyclable box - For all you tree-huggers :p

Your eCountry Needs You - What is eRepublik

Ever heard of eRepublik?

What is Erepublik?

Erepublik is a massive multiplayer online (MMO) game. It hosts 69 different countries. Each country has its own population which is made up of the people that join up to that country. You work and fight your way to success! You can also become a country's president and sign treaties and other agreements (or start wars) There are also eNews Papers you can start and post articles about in-game economics or the constant in-game warfare.

How much does it cost to play?

Sign up is free and there are no monthly fees at all! But if you want to get serious you can buy extra boosters and upgrades from an in-game store.

What's the point?

Erepublik is a social-stratergy game. Social as its about communicating what-your-all-about and encouraging others to follow you and stratergy, as once you have people that respect you or are willing to work with you, you can do so much more...

What are you waiting for? Sign up here.