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Submission + - The $150 Space Camera: MIT Students Beat NASA On B (wired.com)

beatle11 writes: Two students (from MIT, of course) put together a low-budget rig to fly a camera high enough to photograph the curvature of the Earth. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, they filled a weather balloon with helium and hung a styrofoam beer cooler underneath to carry a cheap Canon A470 compact camera. Instant hand warmers kept things from freezing up and made sure the batteries stayed warm enough to work.

Of course, all this would be pointless if the guys couldnâ(TM)t find the rig when it landed, so they dropped a prepaid GPS-equipped cellphone inside the box for tracking. Total cost, including duct tape? $148.

Comment Another one for the books... (Score 0) 593

I could write a book of all the terrible tech support stories I've heard about Dell. As mentioned above, you should probably just call your credit card company and get a charge back. It's unlikely that your going to get the laptop now and even if you did, I don't think you'd want to deal with Dell anymore anyways.

Comment And thats it... (Score 0) 382

He could make much more than $1495 recording movies in theaters. One movie would suffice. Plus how are they going to enforce the ban. Is every theater gonna have the guys picture around? "The man was also banned for a year from possessing any video recording equipment, even a video-capable cellphone, outside of his home." Again same issue, except maybe the cellphone. To me that's stupid.

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