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PhotoWhoa like a Groupon for shutterbugs

A new group-buying portal called PhotoWhoa has sprung up to offer photography-centric deals to shutterbugs. Similar to popular sites such as Groupon that offer items at discount prices, PhotoWhoa requires a large number of buyers to purchase the same item.

All you need to do is provide your e-mail address to enable you to sign up for deals that supposedly give you up to 90 percent off retail prices of photography-related products. Besides sending you deals every few days, PhotoWhoa offers a money-back guarantee in the event you're not satisfied with your purchase. … Read more

Originally posted at Crave

By Shawn Low

All the glory of the universe, in a single Flash app

Every few months, I come across something on the Web that completely blows my mind. This morning, a friend of mine sent me a link to Nikon's Universcale Web app. It puts the entire universe into proportion, from the smallest particle to the largest measurements of space.

From the femtometer to the light year, Universcale spans 40 magnitudes of measurement into a single cosmic Web application. It's really amazing when you zoom all the way out into stars and galaxies and then realize that every time you go a magnitude higher, everything you saw before, from the flea … Read more