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iPad Microscope

April 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

Yesterday  we mentioned that the Flip camcorder was taken off the market by Cisco. One of the reasons for the Flip’s demise may be the ubiquity of camera and video [...]

MOS: Tornado Alley

March 17, 2011 // 0 Comments

Spring is in the air. The temperature in Boston has been in the mid-50s and may even break 60º this weekend. The giant piles of snow from the innumerable Winter storms have [...]

Buyology

March 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

We were at the Chestnut Hill Mall Apple Store for the iPad2 launch last Friday. The iPad2 went on sale at 5PM and by 6:30PM they had sold out of all versions. When Apple [...]

Plasma ThunderBall FirstLook

March 7, 2011 // 0 Comments

What  is plasma? This glowing, ethereal condition is often known as the forth state of matter. More specifically, Plasma is the gaseous state of matter where gas has been [...]

Olympus Innov-X XRF

February 23, 2011 // 0 Comments

The  more we recycle, the less demand we put on our environment. Scrap metal has been one of the biggest exports out of North America in recent years, mainly because of the [...]

Olympus Innov-X XRF DELTA FirstLook

February 22, 2011 // 0 Comments

There  are a LOT of cool, cutting-edge high-tech companies in Massachusetts, so many that we tend to take them for granted. Some of them, like Genzyme, are public, high [...]

Valentine’s Day 2011

February 14, 2011 // 0 Comments

How  better to demonstrate your love for your honey-bunny, pookie-bear, or snugglie-poo than by mathematically plotting a heart in three-dimensional space? The best part? [...]

MOS : Hayden Planetarium FirstLook

February 10, 2011 // 0 Comments

For  the past year, the Museum of Science has been busy renovating the Hayden Planetarium. This Sunday, the Planetarium will reopen it doors and unveil to the public the [...]

Pelican 1650 Case retrofit

February 8, 2011 // 0 Comments

We posted a FirstLook of a telecope transport case yesterday. The case was originally designed for the military to protect and ship electronic equipment. It happens to [...]

Meade LX200 Telescope Case

February 7, 2011 // 0 Comments

The interns have been researching various options for transporting the two telescopes. There are few telescope case makers and their cases are typically custom-fit units [...]
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