Announced earlier this year overseas, the SZ-31MR, a nice 16Mpix Shooter capable to record video in 1080/60p and featuring a nice 24x optical zoom, has finally been announced in Japan and schedule to arrive later this month at around 45,000 Yen (roughly 14,000 Yen more expensive than in the USA). But what’s matter here today is the launch of this new Olympus Tough TG-1, a new rugged camera capable to withstand the worse by being Waterproof, Shockproof, Freezeproof, Crushproof and …

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Olympus bring the SZ-31MR in Japan and announces the Tough TG-1

This short video, made at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory , proudly explains the science behind the world’s first accurate atomic clock. It was designed by Louis Essen and built at the National Physical Laboratory in 1955, and the video is worth watching for the voice-over alone

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An Amazing Vintage Video About the World’s First Accurate Atomic Clock [Video]

Let’s face it, most rugged cameras can cope with being dropped, frozen or dunked in water, but few of them take a good photo. Which is why the newly announced Olympus TG-1 stands out: it’s based on the company’s amazing point-and-shoot XZ-1 , only it’s toughened up for the great outdoors.

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Finally, a Rugged Camera Designed to Take Great Photos [Cameras]

Looks like virtual Tupac might have some company. With Kinect , you are the hologram. Besides logging in lots of quality time at a South Korean theme park, the Kinect is now doing double duty at the Human Media Lab of Queen’s University in Canada thanks to a 3D holographic chat system called “TeleHuman.” The setup basically creates a life-size rendering of its subject by using six Kinect sensors, a 3D projector and a cylindrical display.

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‘TeleHuman’ uses Kinect for 3D holographic chat, bumps up options for contacting Obi-Wan (video)

I have been rather disappointed by today’s launch of NEC latest Notebook and Desktop. While the company completely revamp its product line-up inlcuding the All In One ValueStar W, N Series as well as the Notebook LaVie E, S and LaVie M, only the two new computer were announced today sporting Intel’s 3rd generation Ivy Bridge CPUs. The first model sporting Intel’s latest CPU is a rather “blend” desktop the ValueStar L Series that comes with its VL750/HS version ..

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NEC refresh its Desktop and Notebook line-up while mostly skipping Ivy Bridge

Nokia Siemens Networks laid out an ambitious heterogeneous network strategy at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, unveiling Flexi Zone, a fabric of hundreds of small 3G, 4G and Wi-Fi cells that behaves like a single cell site. NSN, however, was missing one crucial piece in its new Liquid Radio framework : Wi-Fi. GigaOM has learned NSN has now filled that hole, signing a contract with Ruckus Wireless to integrate with and resell its high-performance Wi-Fi gear

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Exclusive: Ruckus completes Nokia Siemens’ HetNet puzzle

After spending years in the U.S.

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Azure Power’s rise in the Indian solar world

For over a decade, if you were to say “home shopping,” you were likely referring to the experience of viewing products on your TV set, and ordering over the phone. After launching in the ’80s, it wasn’t long before television networks like QVC and The Home Shopping Network (HSN) had become synonymous with “home shopping.” The Web and eCommerce changed that

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Evine: Former HSN CEO Takes On The Bigs, Launches Interactive Shopping Platform For Women

Ematic clearly isn’t aiming to differentiate itself when it comes to tablet designs, but then again, the company is a devotee of that tried-and-true method of undercutting its competitors’ prices. (Remember that impossibly cheap PMP ?) Its just-announced Android 4.0 slate, the eGlide XL Pro 2, may not be a “standout device” as the outfit proclaims, but it does look and act like a tablet — for a Walmart-friendly $220.

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Ematic announces eGlide XL Pro Android 4.0 slate for $220

For its second product with collaborative partner Aesop (the ultra luxe chemists), French label APC has concocted a quite a strange product indeed. More