When we first got wind of a throwable, 36-lens compound camera that automatically snaps 360-degree panoramas at the height of its toss, we were already impressed—and that was jus the prototype (seen above on the right). Now, the officially named Panono camera is nearly half its former size, just as powerful, and finally ready to be caught by consumer hands. And after playing around with the ball for a bit, we can officially say that, yes, it is every bit as awesome as it seems. Read more…
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The Throwable, Panoramic Ball Cam Is Finally Here—and It’s Incredible
First time accepted submitter sqorbit writes “Netflix and Youtube are gaining ground not only on the competition, such as Amazon, but also over peer-to-peer file sharing. Netflix claims more than 30 million customers and believes it could double that number in the future. Traffic from Netflix and Youtube amounted to over 50% of Internet traffic in September. Meanwhile Bittorrent traffic is down slightly (7.4% from 10%) in Internet traffic compared to last year. Could more people be satisfied with current video offerings or are less people finding useful things to download via file sharing?” Read more of this story at Slashdot. 
A few weeks ago, drips of lost footage filled with cut takes from Return of the Jedi began appearing online. Now you can see all 30 minutes of the recovered footage, compiled into a single video. Read more… 
