Question by dariodepaulocastro: Name of metal gadget to walk around with strapped in the legs that is a modern version of circus wood legs?
Looked all over the net. Anyone knows?
I saw a couple times. They walk on it. Looks cool. It bends a bit for comfort and the bottom is a strong rubber piece.
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Answer by Rikkitikkitavi
http://www.power-stilts.com
http://www.damnhot.com/stilts/Stilt_inst.htm
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Short version: The price is right, and it is rugged, but form factor problems may sink this camera’s chances.
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The most inexpensive camera in this week’s roundup, the XP10 is no slouch when it comes to specs. In fact, it beats the Casio in terms of video, and is freeze-proof to boot (if you care about that). Its price shows in its build, however; it isn’t slim and sexy like the Casio or bulky and reassuring like the Olympus.
My little field tests showed that at the very least, it can handle being thrown over your shoulder a couple times, and it had no problem at all underwater. Here’s the video:
I’ve also put it in the freezer while I’m writing this, so we’ll see how it likes that. [30 minutes later] Yeah, it turns on all right, and apart from a very foggy lens and LCD screen it seems to function fine. There is a very alarming clicking noise going on inside, though. We’ll see if that fades.
So its ruggedness has been established; what of the camera? Well, I went ahead and took sample shots for all three cameras at the same time. They’re here in this Flickr set — feel free to poke around. Here’s the drift, though: the Fuji performs at or about the quality of the Olympus, and not quite as well as the Casio. Its underwater shots were perfectly clear, though, perhaps even the clearest.
The $200 price point seems to show in the quality of the lens; it’s not bad, but when you get in close you can see that a lot of fine detail is lost compared with the Casio shots. It has a reasonably close focus, though I wouldn’t call it macro. Its lens was nice and wide and the zoom is quick and focused fine at 5x. Color seemed accurate, though none of these cameras excelled particularly in that area. Overall, I don’t take issue with the image quality.
Video was similarly acceptable, if only in comparison to other cameras of its class. 720p is smeary and slightly choppy, as any “HD” camera under $300-400 will be. Chroma noise is apparent in greys and exposure is rather slow to adjust, but not terribly so. Edges are completely lost to compression, as Here’s a still:
To be honest, it’s a $200 camera and you can’t expect amazing image quality. It shoots just fine.
My issue with the camera was the design, though. I think it’s a bit ugly to begin with, but that’s a matter of taste. There are a number of problems with the functional design, though:
As you can see, I didn’t exactly find it a joy to use. Personally, I would consider these problems are a deal-breaker. I have to compliment Fujifilm on the unlocking mechanism, however. It took me a second to figure out, but it really does prevent any accidental opening of the SD card/battery compartment.
Conclusion:
For $200, it’s actually a bargain to get a 5x zoom, decent image quality, and rugged/underwater capability. I’d recommend it to people who don’t want to invest much or who have a good camera already for serious shooting. But if this is to be your main camera, save yourself some trouble and upgrade.
I just came across this story in the neighborhood newspaper. I can’t find it anywhere online. What is wrong with our seventh-graders that they are using their DIY skills to make shanks instead of putting together a cool fort or at least a more creative weapon? They couldn’t, I don’t know, modify Nerf arrows with metal caps so they hurt when they hit?
If they’ve got some violence in the system, as many kids do, they need to work it out. Most kids do that through video games these days, yet why do I get the feeling that somewhere in the Seattle school district tonight, somebody will be cursing the same games for making kids more violent?
Luckily, no one was hurt in this incident. The kids involved were expelled, but beyond that nothing is known. I think that going to an inner-city high school and being held up at gunpoint a couple times has made me a more well-rounded person all told, but I wouldn’t wish a shank on anyone.
Just imagine the situation when you want to buy a computer but the credit that is offered is not suitable or there is even absence of the credit. Some of the stores that are retail can offer you to put it on layaway but you can get it only after paying the whole sum. There is a chance to rent the computer with an opportunity of owing it in the future but it will cost you a couple times more. Not suitable credit can be a big problem for the customer unless he knows where to look for. Then it will not cost him so much than it could.
Bad credit computers or the representatives of the retail companies that also offer bad credits in most of the cases can be found online. In such situations mostly neither credit check nor money for the new computer are required. If you have a permanent job and availability of the checking account, there is a high possibility that your computer will be financing by one of those bad credit computer company. There are two ways to get started the financing of the new computer by bad credit. The first way means no making down payments and the second considers making down payments. The choice of one completely depends on you.
In case you are able to put the money down on the computer, you have to do that without hesitations. It gives you a chance to get the computer faster and besides you will pay less every week. If you can not pay at the beginning, you still will be able to get the computer financing but weekly payments are going to be higher. No matter which type of the strategy you choose, you will get your computer before it is fully paid because in reality only the remaining balance gets financed.
It can also be that right after you make a down payment you will get the computer and continue paying the rest of the sum. In case you are not making the first down payment, the companies require you to make a few payments before they will consider you to be their client. After you paid the entire sum on time, you will get the computer and you will be financed according to the remaining balance.
Laptop became device of the first importance in our life. We hardly can imagine working without it. That is why lack of money is not the reason for refusing from the laptop. There are credit systems that help to get the computer buy paying the sum in parts. However, it is recommended to make at the beginning a bigger payment in order to get the laptop immediately. In that case you will be in favour of the credit company.
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Knowing you guys, you not only knew Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 leaked several days ago, but you grabbed it instantly, and gained some nice ratio buffer in the process. Oh, and you listened to it many times over (as have I). Good, great.
Well, not everyone can flout the law so readily, so Rhapsody, which I’ve written about a couple times, has decided to bump up the release date of the album to today, 3PM EDT. (The album was originally supposed to come out on next Friday.) Now, the official reason for the bump up is because of “popular demand and recent buzz,” but we all the real reason: to lessen the blow of piracy. It’s not like this is the first time this has happened to a highly anticipated album.
So, again, once 3PM hits today, you, too, can enjoy The Blueprint 3.
Rhapsody also has a contest that runs through Friday, where, among other prizes, lives a Vizio HDTV. You basically have to listen to the album while on Rhapsody.com, then click the little “tweet” button, and that’s it. You can read the full deets here.
And if Jay-Z sells less than 800 million copies of the album I’ll be surprised. The guy is as over as Ric Flair.
While sitting in my dentist’s chair recently, I marveled at just how scary looking many of the implements on his tray were. And don’t get me started on that contraption I put my face into at the optometrists! It’s hard to believe that these implements of modern medicine will some day appear as quaint — and arguably as effective — as instruments of yore, like the “artificial leech” pictured here.
For a quick walk down memory lane, take a peek at 20 Scary Old School Surgical Tools over at SurgicalTechnologists.net. it’s fun for the whole family! I recommend the trephine if you’re considering trepaning yourself. And really, who doesn’t think about trepanation a couple times a day?!
