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Best of the Rest: When to Use Camera Flash, CEATEC's Best Robots

by Thomas Houston on October 7, 2009 at 07:38 PM


There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
  • All those camera flashes popping off at giant sports events might look cool in the heat of the sporting moment, but there's almost no chance any of those pictures will actually turn out. Gizmodo takes an in-depth look on when you should use flash and when you're best served turning it off. [From: Gizmodo]
  • CEATEC 2009 (check out our coverage here) is in full swing and the exhibition halls are full of robots. Check out the best, including the creepy HRP-4C singing robot and the ALSOK Guard bot, over at Huffington Post. [From: HuffingtonPost]
  • Stateside fans of British television have it pretty tough with their British counterparts having access to BBC's iPlayer, which features a huge selection of content. We've been locked out of iPlayer access here in the U.S., but PaidContent writes that 'The Beeb' is working on launching a global version of the software. [From: PaidContent Via: DownloadSquad]
  • Single-serving blogs take one extremely specific topic -- , for example -- and cover it obsessively. Our newest favorite is 'Awesome YouTube Comments,' which is exactly [From: Awesome YouTube Comments]
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