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iPhone Hip Holster Recharges Your Battery While Repelling the Ladies [Holsters]

Sheathing something as slick and pocketable as the iPhone in a holster feels wrong to me for many reasons, but this particular holster adds the handy ability to charge your drained batteries with its own rechargeable Li-ion battery back. It's good for one full charge before it needs to be recharged itself. Handy, and at $25 the price is right, but this thing is huge. Product page says this only works with first-gen iPhones and iPod touch—but I don't see any reason why you couldn't squeeze a 3G in. [Product Page via BBG] [lien] [EN]

Silver-Zinc Batteries Coming in 2009 With 40% Better Run Time Than Lithium-Ion [Power Up]

Lithium-ion is, by far, the most common form of rechargeable battery found in today's mobile devices. However, a shift towards silver zinc may be looming on the horizon thanks to a new product in development by ZPower, Inc. Ross E. Dueber, president and CEO of the company is scheduled to address attendees at the Batteries 2008 conference in Nice, France starting tomorrow, where he will tout the advantages of his silver-zinc technology scheduled to launch in "a major notebook computer in 2009." Whether we will find out the identity of this "major notebook" in the coming days remains to be seen, but the impending release does offer some hope for consumers frustrated by the battery life of their precious portable gadgets. First and foremost, silver-zinc can offer up to 40 percent more battery life than traditional lithium. [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot S5 IS chez Maginea Ref 264798157

Canon PowerShot S5 IS coloris noir disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 2077B012 [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot SX100 IS Appareil photo numérique compact

Canon PowerShot SX100 IS - Appareil photo numerique - compact - 8.0 Mpix - zoom optique : 10 x - memoire prise en charge : MMC, SD, Carte memoire SDHC, MMCplus - noir   [lien] [EN]

‘Bridge’ protein spurs deadliest stages of breast cancer

A protein known for its ability to “bridge” interactions between other cellular proteins may spur metastasis in breast cancer, the disease's deadliest stage, a study from Burnham Institute for Medical Research has found. Led by professor Gen-Sheng Feng, Ph.D., and colleagues at Burnham and Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, Quebec, the study ranks among the first to more precisely define the cancer role for the protein known as Gab-2. These results, to be published in the journal Oncogene. The protein has been of keen research interest for its role in breast cancer, but whether it controlled metastasis or initial tumor growth was unknown. Gab-2 is one of a group of proteins known as “scaffold” or “bridge” proteins, which provide a molecular intermediary to help cell signal proteins interact. [lien] [EN]

Dude, Where’s My Bridge?

Workers at a heating plant in Khabarovsk, eastern Russia, went to work early one morning to discover that a bridge on the only road to their work had disappeared overnight! The thieves worked at night when there was no one around, which allowed them to dismantle and remove the heavy construction without anyone noticing, a spokesman [...] [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot A570 IS chez Maginea Ref 264800805

Canon PowerShot A570 IS nu disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 1773B009 [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot A570 IS PowerPlus chez Maginea Ref 264800803

Canon PowerShot A570 IS PowerPlus disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 1773B013 [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot A720 IS chez Maginea Ref 264798007

Canon PowerShot A720 IS disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 2092B008 [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot S5 IS PowerPlus chez Maginea Ref 264798145

Canon PowerShot S5 IS PowerPlus disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 2077B012 [lien] [EN]

Canon PowerShot SX100 IS chez Maginea Ref 264798009

Canon PowerShot SX100 IS disponibilite: dispo. envoi immediat; marque: Canon; port: 8.3200; reference: 2091B009 [lien] [EN]

NYC Installing Gigantic 120-Foot Waterfalls Under the Brooklyn Bridge, in the East River [Art]

While this image of a gigantic waterfall cascading down from beneath the Brooklyn Bridge looks like some wacky photoshop, it's actually something that's being installed this summer. A new art project... [lien] [EN]

Bridge Collapse Resulted Mainly from Design Flaw

It turns out that bridge in Minnesota, which was designed and constructed in the early 1960s, collapsed mainly because of a design flaw: Sixteen fractured gusset plates in the center span on Interstate 35W were a main cause of the deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis last August, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said on Tuesday. The plates, which connected steel beams in the truss bridge, were roughly half the thickness they should have been because of a design error. How that flaw made it into the bridge is unclear; according to NTSB chairman Mark Rosenker, investigators couldn't find the original design calculations. Extra weight from construction was also a factor in the tragedy, which killed 13 people and injured 100. I blame George W. [lien] [EN]

Golden Gate Bridge Sculpture from a Single Toothpick

Toothpick artist Steven Beckman managed to create a sculpture of the Golden Gate Bridge from a single toothpick! Link - via Spluch | Lots more toothpick art at Steven’s website [lien] [EN]

Canon Drops Nukes In Camera Price War: $180 PowerShot A590 IS, A580 and A470 Surprisingly Capable [Digital Cameras]

Canon's PowerShot A590 IS is not just a budget camera. Hell, it's not even a "no-compromise" low-end camera. On paper, it looks a hell of a lot like something that would've cost $500 not long ago,... [lien] [EN]