The Nikon Coolpix S210 is your regular point-and-shoot camera which makes it a great present for those who do not yet own any digital camera to date. Judging by the specifications, it seems as though the S210 relies more on its looks to get by. Still, it ain’t no performance slouch thanks to the following features :-

• 8.megapixels CCD sensor
• 3x Zoom-NIKKOR glass lens
• Electronic Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization
• 2.5″ LCD monitor that views great even in direct sunlight


• Face Priority AF


• In-Camera Red-Eye Fix


• Support for SD and SDHC memory cards

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Nikon has enhanced its Coolpix Performance Series line of digital cameras with the Coolpix P60, bringing both Program and Manual controls to the user for greater ease-of-use. The functional body design and a defined hand grip for secure finger placement and easy operation contains the following features :-

• 8.1 megapixels CCD sensor
• 5x Zoom-NIKKOR glass lens
• Vibration Reduction (VR) Image Stabilization
• Face-priority AF
• In-Camera Red-Eye Fix
• Support for SD and SDHC memory cards

The Nikon Coolpix P60 will be available this March for $229.95.

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If you are working in the construction industry, I’m sure you can identify with all the aches and pains that seem to pop up out of nowhere after an honest, hard day’s work. The half-body robot from Nagoya University could change that situation, being a one-handed power suit that was specially developed to help construction workers fit ceiling panels. The workman first uses his own strength to guide the panel into position, whereby the machinery will take over and hold it in place for fixing while the workman effortlessly rivets or screws it into place. The current prototype is still deemed too bulky for commercial use, so expect further slimming down efforts from the team of researchers at the university.

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Tokyo-based weather forecasting company Weathernews, Inc. is currently working on a Pollen Robot that comes in the form factor of a ball, housing complex electronics within to monitor the pollen situation in the upcoming hay fever season. Each of these Pollen Robots weigh 1 kg and has a diameter of 30cm, complete with a pair of eyes that glow according to the level of Japanese cedar and cypress pollen in the air (white, blue, green, red and purple). Pollen Robots are capable of sending minute-by-minute reports to the Weathernews HQ over the Internet, where collected data will be analyzed to form the online pollen map. Interesting.

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Filed under: Late Night, TV Royalty, Programming, Celebrities, Talk Show

Here’s who’s on the late night shows tonight.

• Charlie Rose: TBA
• The Daily Show: TBA
• The Colbert Report: TBA
• The Late Show with David Letterman: Bill Cosby, Lake Bell, and The Matt Savage Trio
• Jay Leno: TBA
• Jimmy Kimmel Live: TBA
• Tavis Smiley: Bruce Bartlett and Shelby Lynne
• Late Night with Conan O’Brien: TBA
• The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson: Raquel Welch and Antonio Gates
• Last Call with Carson Daly: Niki Taylor and Quincy Coleman (repeat)

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Well, not quite…Craig Ferguson will become an official U.S. citizen in a few weeks. However, as the talk show host mentioned on the Late Late Show Monday night, he did take the test to become a United States citizen and received a perfect score. Something a good portion of U.S. citizens probably could not do (end of commentary on American society).

His quest for citizenship actually began as a joke last year when Ferguson was named an honorary citizen by the mayor of Ozark, Arkansas. After that he began a campaign to get the same designation in other towns and cities. The campaign caught on and, as of this writing, Craig has been named as an honorary citizen of over 16,000 communities and 23 states nationwide.

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Mike Wallace, the semi-retired 60 Minutes correspondent, underwent triple-bypass heart surgery over the weekend at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan.

The 89-year-old Wallace, the oldest of the 60 Minutes correspondents, is recovering nicely, according to a CBS News spokesperson. The spokesperson added that the Correspondent Emeritus was already taking his first steps just two days after undergoing the procedure. Man, this guy is tough! It is unknown at this time if the surgery was planned or done after a checkup revealed an issue.

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Filed under: OpEd, American Idol, Celebrities, Judges

AOL TV has an interview with Randy Jackson up right now. The interview asks a lot of good questions (i.e. “Paula gets a bad rap. Do you think you have to stick up for her?”) but gets a lot of vague answers from the Idol judge who is just as articulate in the interview as he is on the show. Catch my sarcasm?

If you’re a die-hard Idol fan, I would definitely check out the interview. But like I said, he skirts around some of the better questions using his signature crutch phrases like “You know what I mean?,” “You just never know. You know?,” and “It’s cool, man.” Very articulate, indeed.

He does, however, compare his new MTV show America’s Best Dance Crew to Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” video and he compares his new compilation album to a Quincy Jones album. That’s good for a laugh. Now, I’m not a gambling woman. But I’d bet his CD won’t be anything like a Quincy Jones album.

Let me know what you think…

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Jamie Lynn Spears is returning for the fourth season of Zoey 101, despite the sixteen-year-old’s public announcement of her pregnancy. This was intended to be the final season even before the announcement was made.

The season was filmed last summer, but there was concern that Nickelodeon would shelve it due to the controversy. Since Spears announced her pregnancy, the show has experienced a boost in ratings.

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Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, OpEd, Celebrities

Maybe it wasn’t exactly an epic journey, but let’s have some fun info from a day in the life of Annie anyway, shall we? Well, Monday afternoon, I shelled out a couple of bucks and jumped on a train to Washington DC. I already do so every once in a while to visit the museums, but this time I had an actual mission: to be an obnoxious fangirl in front of the Stephen Colbert portrait in the National Portrait Gallery.

From the looks of some photos on the Internet, the line to see the portrait can get pretty intense, but I guess crowds weren’t really flocking in on a Monday afternoon. Anyway, my friends and I were excited to be there but also a little disappointed. I’ve always known that the “painting” was just a digital image on canvas, but, up close, I was really blown away by how it really wasn’t much more than Photoshop filtered. I mean, brushstrokes weren’t even simulated. My friends and I, all of us being annoying artists, quietly whispered complaints back and forth about the detailing, because, come on, the Report couldn’t afford a real painter or even someone to do some tablet work on the computer? Hell, I would have done it for free. Arty nitpicking aside, people around us seemed to enjoy the Gallery’s blurb about the portrait, which I’ve included after the jump…

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