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World’s first digital camera to be powered by sunlight and wind-up renewable energy

“Sun & Cloud is a digital camera the features built-in components for generating power with renewable energy, including solar and mechanical power. The camera, priced at $200, could be an excellent learning tool for kids, teaching them just how energy is created and how much energy it takes to run an electronic device. Plus, it takes pictures, which kids love and so is a great reward for the kids to want to learn about the renewable energy aspect of the device.”

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High-Resolution Stereo Camera nadir and colour channel data taken during revolution 11497 on 13 January 2013 by ESA’s Mars Express have been combined to form a natural-colour view of the region southeast of Amenthes Planum and north of Hesperia Planum. The region imaged, which lies to the west of Tinto Vallis and Palos crater, is centred at around 3°S and 109°E, and has a ground resolution of about 22 m per pixel. The image features craters, lava channels and a valley from which water may have once flowed. Dark wind-blown sediments fill the valleys and the floors of the craters. (via Wired Science Space Photo of the Day | Wired Science | Wired.com)

(via This is What You Get When You Stack Photos of a Meteor Shower)

This photo looks like two images stitched together; above is a normal forest, and below, a strange, Martian one. But it’s a single image from a single place and time — the hills of western Hungary, six months after a devastating industrial accident. (via This Image Is Not Photoshopped : The Picture Show : NPR)

SIXTH PLACE - Specimen: Stinkbug eggs. Technique: Brightfield illumination. (Haris Antonopoulos/Athens, Greece) (via Extraordinary Microscope Photographs - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

An image provided by NASA, the SDO satellite captures a ultra-high definition image of the Transit of Venus across the face of the sun on June 6 from space. The last transit was in 2004 and the next pair of events will not happen again until the year 2117 and 2125. (NASA) (via Transit of Venus - The Big Picture - Boston.com)

Researchers from the University of Miami, Florida have completed the first satellite-tagging study to find out how ecotourism impacts on tiger sharks. Debate rages in the conservation community over whether companies offering shark dives could be harming populations. (via BBC Nature - In pictures: Satellite tagging tiger sharks)

This is a disaster caught in freeze-frame, the above image is not a computer render but a real 3D object. Tel Aviv-based artist Eyal Gever uses software to simulate catastrophes on screen (in this case a to buses crashing) and then turns the most compelling frames into 50cm resin models, using a £215,000 Objet 3D printer. (via How Tel Aviv artist Eyal Gever catches catastrophes in 3D (Wired UK))

The Butterfly Nebula Nebula, NGC 6302, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. What resemble dainty wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. NGC 6302 lies within our Milky Way galaxy, roughly 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius. The glowing gas is the star’s outer layers, expelled over about 2,200 years. The “butterfly” stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri. More info here. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team) (via 2011 Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic)

PowerTrekk charger will replenish your smartphone using water (via Wired UK)