Hasta La Gadget!

NASA and the US government may have moved on from the shuttle program, but it’s clear that the American people are still in love with our nation’s cosmic cargo planes. An estimated 20,000 people showed up at the Ames Research Center/Moffet Air Force Base in Mountain View, California this morning to see Endeavour buzz the tower. With so many folks itchin’ to see Endeavour’s farewell tour firsthand, the line to get in was lengthy, but we braved the crowds to bring you some shots of the action. Enjoy.

[Thanks to Chris Williams for helping with some of the crowd shots]

Update: Canon/RED guru and LA-based DP Vincent Laforet caught the shuttle’s final approach and landing at LAX. You’ll find the slow-motion clip, shot at 5K resolution on a RED Epic at 96 frames-per-second with an 800mm Canon f/5.6 lens, just past the break.

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Vizualized: Bay Area bids adieu to Space Shuttle Endeavour (update: video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 Sep 2012 18:08:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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London has a rich history of underground radio stations, but what if we flipped that, and turned London’s Underground into a radio? Well it’d look like this. The circuit-board radio project is a collaboration between Yuri Suzuki and Masahiko Shindo, and uses Harry Beck’s iconic tube map design. Note the choice of BBC’s White City for the tuner, and Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner for volume control — plus a few other famous names changed for geeky in-joke fun. We love the attention to detail, we just hope it’s not permanently tuned to Capital FM.

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Visualized: London Underground circuit map is also a radio originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 16 Sep 2012 13:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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And why wouldn’t it be? That’s how the Kraay family of Lacombe, Alberta, Canada gets down, as evidenced by the family’s past 13 years of elaborate corn maze designs — from a logo of the Edmonton Oilers to a 25th anniversary commemoration of Rick Hansen’s “Man in Motion” tour. Said QR code sends adventurous scanners to a website for the Kraay’s family farm website. The code also got the Kraays into the Guinness Book of World Records for “World’s Largest QR Code,” which was really what drove this whole project. At approximately 29,000 meters (1.1 square miles), that’s quite a bit of carefully crafted corn designing. It’s certainly more elaborate than the previously claimed record holder, and a lot more official.

“It was something that we didn’t think would happen. There were a lot of little things we had to do and Guinness is pretty picky with how you collect your evidence. We were a little bit on edge on whether it would come through so we were very relieved and very excited,” Rachel Kraay told CTV News about the project. To verify that the code works, the Kraays had to commission a helicopter to fly them over their own farm, allowing them to scan it while hovering hundreds of feet above. And then, at the end of last week, the Guinness folks sent over a package certifying the bizarre world record. “They didn’t even call. I just went to the door and there was a large package and inside was the certificate and a letter. I guess that’s how they do it.”

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Visualized: World’s largest QR code is a Canadian maize maze originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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So many tired and weary feet at this show, who wouldn’t want a nice lounge? Particularly a Smart one? And hey, Samsung’s tenty IFA lounge seemed oddly welcoming — at least to us Engadget folk. You’d think Samsung would be a little more cautious these days…

Visualized: Samsung’s eerily familiar IFA Smart Lounge originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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What do you get when you multiply a crazy Make project with a Kickstarter fund? You get the answer to our childhood dreams, that’s what.

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Visualized: DeLorean hovercraft cruises around McCovey Cove, wins the internet originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 12 Aug 2012 15:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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