Author: matt buchanan

One remarkable photo out of many in Life’s quietly stunning photogallery, The Day That Einstein Died: Dr. Thomas Harvey, who famously dissected Einstein’s brain, cuts into one here. It might be Einstein’s. [Life via Jon Snyder] More »

Light painting was the killer technique behind the winners in our slow shot photo contest—and it’s how this quite awesome Hennessy ad was made, not CGI. Wanna know how they do it? Check out the video. [Strobist] More »

Several publishers now set their own price for Kindle books, not Amazon. Which often means pricier than what Amazon was charging. And now Amazon says they’re adding sales tax on any book where the publisher sets the price. More »

The CDC 6600 was the fastest computer in the world in 1964, just like every supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray when it’s born. But I think this is the only one that stares at you. [Time via Coudal via ★] More »

One of Leica’s more affordably beloved cameras, the D-Lux 3, was a point-and-shoot based on Panasonic’s LX-2 (which led to much angst amongst camera nerds.) Round two : Leica’s V-Lux20 looks like a riff on Panasonic’s ZS7, but hotter. More »

We know the secret technology behind Microsoft’s Project Natal motion controls. But this is what it sees, what you look like to it. Which is not unlike a Predator’s prey. [NextGN] More »

Obsolescence, meet iPhone. It’s true, iPhone OS 4 won’t touch the original iPhone at all. But even the iPhone 3G is getting shafted quite a bit with iPhone OS 4. More »

Holy crap. Against our wildest expectations, Apple approved the Opera Mini browser for the iPhone, and it’ll be in the App Store within 24 hours. Original iPhone users should be reallllllly happy right now. [Opera] More »

Microsoft’s Project Pink—sorry, Kin—in a sentence: It’s the phone I’d beg my mom for if I was 15 again. And didn’t want an iPhone. More »

Flash “evangelist” Lee Brimelow responds to Apple cutting Flash developers off at the knees for iPhone. Adobe makes him change it. The sentence left in its place? Well that kind of says everything. Things, they are complicated. [Flash Blog] More »

Want to experience the thrill of watching iPhone multitasking for the first time? The agony that it’s not coming to your iPhone? Well, just watch the entire iPhone 4.0 keynote. [Apple] More »

Music services embedding personal info into the songs you buy as sekret DRM isn’t new. But it could take on a whole new level of relevance once cloud-based music streaming services from Apple or Amazon or Google finally launch. More »

The traditional iSuppli component breakdowns that attempt to put a neat little number on what a product actually costs to build appeal to a primal part of us, the part of us that wants to know, “Did I get screwed?” More »

So, what’re you most excited to see at the iPhone OS 4 event in just two days? Multitasking? A brand new interface? Um, how about—the next generation of iPhone ads? More »

Apple’s just sent an invite “for a sneak peek of the next generation of iPhone OS software” on April 8 at 10AM Pacific. That’s in three days! We’ll be there. Start your predictions now. More »

I honestly can’t tell you what it’s like to see and touch and consume news, magazines and comics on the iPad. You just have to experience it. But I can tell you what to read to blow your mind. More »

Supposedly taken at Google at HQ during a lunch break. Presented without comment. (Mostly.) Well, that and Fred Armisen looks more like Steve Jobs. [via digg] More »

You didn’t preorder an iPad. But you want one now. Can you still buy one? Where do you go? What’s it going to be like? This is what you need to know to buy an iPad tomorrow. More »