Also, it's kind of cute when the robot hand picks up the rice grain with the tweezers.

There really is so much amazing stuff online, it's overwhelming.

Thanks to Gizmodo, I found this NASA site called Earth Observatory. They specifically linked to the section about the Sarychev Peak Eruption, Kuril Islands

But you've got to check out the video. Yeah, that's real.

I saw this a while back and kept meaning to put it up here. There ya go. Check it out in full HD if you can, it's worth it.

SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

I think this could qualify as Chindōgu.

Here's something:

We are flying to Singapore tomorrow. We will arrive Thursday night. Whew. We've started a tumblr blog to cover this event.

and

(I couldn't figure out how to get this thing to auto-play on load, so I removed it and have linked to the quicktime file directly here.