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Top Five Astronauts Using Twitter From Space

Dean Sherwin — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:40:25 +0000

In May of last year, Twitter history was made when Astro_Mike (or Mike Massimino – an American astronaut) made the first ever tweet from space after the launch of the Atlantis space shuttle. It read “From orbit: Launch was awesome!! I am feeling great, working hard, & enjoying the magnificent views, the adventure of a lifetime has begun!”.

History has once again been made when the first ever tweet from the International Space Station made it onto Twitter a few days ago, made by TJ Creamer.

“Hello Twitterverse! We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station — the 1st live tweet from Space! More soon, send your ?s”

This tweeting from space seems to be getting very popular. There are now quite a few astronauts tweeting from space. Some have hundreds of thousands of followers accumulated in just a few days So here are a few of the best ‘out-of-this-world- tweeters at the minute. I’ll add to this list as more space explorers come into the ‘Twitterverse’

@Astro_Tj – TJ Creamer, NASA

@Astro_Soichi – Soichi, CNSA

@Astro_Mike – Mike Massimino, NASA

@Astro_127 – Mark Polansky, NASA

@Astro_Naoko – Naoko Yamazaki, CNSA

Buy a Star Trek Wetsuit for Cheap

Steven Finch — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:27:11 +0000

Ever wanted to get a Star Trek wetsuit? Well now surprisingly you can even do that!

The wetsuits as you can see from the picture above is taken straight from the original series. The wetsuits are available at Roddenberry.com from $435.

via Geekologie and Dvice.

Packing Suitcases and Space Age Technology Merge

Luis Sandoval — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:12:20 +0000

Crenk loves to find innovative and creative ways to make the mundane more interesting. We cover web apps, mobile apps, products, technology, and more, and in all that we love to share what is happening out there.

Well here’s a mundane task that does not get any more boring, packing a suitcase. Travelers around the world do this on a daily if not weekly basis, and as such it’s nice to see an update to this old process.

Infusing space age technology into packing suitcases may just be what this task needs, and it’s been done for all of us to enjoy. Enter, Spacepak.

This innovative system of bags ($30-$98) allows you to divide your belongings into specific piles: underwear, t-shirts, shoes, camera, socks, etc. Each of these bags are then undergoes double compression to maximize the space inside your suitcase. This can virtually double the space inside that luggage allowing you to take that extra pair of shoes or outfit you didn’t know you needed.

NASA TV – A Pretty Cool View From Space

Dean — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:07:58 +0000

Sixty years ago a fuzzy image of two guy names Neil and Buzz crackled onto TVs around the world with the famous line “One small step for man. One giant leap for mankind”. Every television station seems to be going berserk showing anything remotely related to the event such as nostalgic summaries, conspiracy theories, sci-fi, interviews and documentaries. Here on Crenk however, we like to give you stuff that’s worth your time. Have you ever wondered just what the Russians and the Americans and everyone else in the International Space Station gets up to? Well now you can watch it all live.

NASA TV have set up streaming cameras in the space station that run continuously, streaming it all back down to earth onto your screen. I watched it for a few moments as a NASA technician repaired the US toilet. Apparently, it stopped working and the US astronauts had to ask the Russians if they could use their toilet. Good thing they said ‘yes’ too.

The video and sound quality are superb, keeping in mind that their being streamed from space. There is also a running commentary telling you what each astronaut is up to and why he/she is doing that. They also alternate to different positions around the Space Stations. For example, I seen a Russian chowing down on some space food, an American fixing a loo and two Canadians floating around talking to someone at home about their day.

If you’re into all that space stuff then this is worth a go. You can also get an app for Windows Sidebar in Vista that streams it onto your desk top. NASA TV is also worth a peek if you just want to see where your tax dollars end up. To have a look, click here. 7/10

WinSplit Revolution: Spilt Up Your Screen Space into Several Windows

Steven Finch — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 11:37:57 +0000

If you constantly have 2, 3, or 16 windows open on your computer, WinSplit Revolution can help you organize your space. This little Windows utility automatically resizes and relocates windows making it easy to stack your programs vertically, horizontally, or in little boxes.

The program isn’t really that useful if you’ve got an 800 x 600 pixel display, but if you’ve got a high resolution widescreen monitor, WinSplit Revolution can help you make the most of your space. You can assign keyboard shortcuts to various positions. For instance, one hotkey can maximize the current window, while another can unmaximize it and drag it to the left side of the screen.

ZunaVision : Stanfords New In-Movie Placement Software

Steven Finch — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:17:48 +0000

Over at Stanford artificial intelligence researchers have developed an amazing piece of software that im sure Google will purchase very soon. The software makes it easy to place and manipulate an image into a piece of video. Thus, could allow advertising to be simply placed in any video.

It works for videos as well – you can play a video on a wall inside your video. The technology can cheaply do some of the tricks normally performed by expensive commercial editing systems.

More information at ZunaVision but first watch the demo video:

This software would be perfect for video makers who place their videos onto Youtube, because they will be able to sell advertising very simply within the videos. This would also mean that they could place their videos and promote on Bittorrent related sites, cause the content owner is drawing an income. Just a thought!

WhoIsHostingThis.com: Hosting Search

Steven Finch — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 21:15:50 +0000

Tonight I can across a very interesting website, WhoIsHostingThis.com. The website seems to allow you to search any site in the world and it will tell you which hosting company they use. It is not the most useful site in the world but it can be very interesting at times. Some hosting companies on the net claim to have testimonials from certain companies and now you can see if those companies still use the hosting service they recommend.

There are companies in most fields these days that are famous in the same sense as a celebrity, for example GoDaddy.com in domain registration, everyone knows who GoDaddy is. Currently who is the leader in Celeb for Hosting?