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Drobo storage robot is a very cool USB connected RAID/drive array used to store backups, photos, movies, or whatever you want to use it for. Best of all, since all the drives are in an array, nothing is lost if a hard drive goes bad. As you’ll see in the video from the linked picture, replacing drives is very simple and makes it a snap for those with little or no technical expertise. It’s so simple, a caveman can…oh wait, that’s for Geico.

Say goodbye to modifying your computer with extra drives and bringing them into a RAID configuration (or whatever your setup may be). Just purchase a new hard drive that’s on sale and slap it in.

I could store a lot of photos and my backups on this one with ease.  I want one!

The folks over at Think Tank Photo are having a contest from November 16th through December 15th where they will be giving away a free photo bag, every day during the contest. You only need to enter once and you could be selected during the contest time frame.

You can enter the contest here.

After entering the contest, be sure to check out their article on Fear for Your Gear While Running Through the Airport, Part 1. I found it to be an informative and interesting read. It’s filled with all sorts of insight from many photographers who have travelled all over the world.

I received this in an e-mail message a month or so ago. For those that don’t have the time to get out and take some photos, I guess you can resort to filming Superman.

Superman Photography Game

If you have a few minutes, you should check out what’s in store for linking photos together. Note that this isn’t just limited to photos. Newspapers, books, and probably just about anything you can think of in the future may be linked together, on a world wide scale.

It does make me wonder though, how copyrighted/digital rights material will be protected from being linked with this. With stories like the lady who’s upset with Google Streets with having a picture of her cat on the internet and wants it removed. I imagine we’ll eventually be hearing about how people thought their personal photos weren’t available to anyone surfing the internet when they used sites like Flickr, Smugmug, etc.

You can read up more on Photosynth at Microsoft Labs

I thought this was another interesting project. Similar to the alarm clock photo project I posted a couple of years ago in the news. If you have 5 minutes, it’s worth watching. 2,356 photos. Now that’s some dedication.

If the video doesn’t show up for you above, you can visit it here on YouTube

Canon is releasing their next model to replace the ever popular 20D camera. With all these options, I don’t think this will be for prosumers. You’ll definitely have to be a pro to operate it. Just check out all the cool neat features on it. I want one!

The fine folks over at Sybex are throwing a little Photo contest. Apparently this started back on February 15th, but I only heard about it yesterday. The deadline for all entries is April 1st, so there isn’t a whole lot of time left to submit your photos. The grand prize is $1000, 2nd place is $500 and 3rd place will receive a copy of the Digital Photographer’s Library.

Check it out here

In any case, $1000 could buy a nice lens…

While we’re on the kick of photo quizes, here’s four more. Some of these repeat from the previous test. For those of you who are competitive, I’ve posted my scores next to each link for something to beat. The forth test got me on 4 of them.

Real or Hoax, Test 1 (8 out of 10)

Real or Hoax, Test 2 (8 out of 10)

Real or Hoax, Test 3 (8 out of 10)

Real or Hoax, Test 4 (6 out of 10)

Someone sent me another picture test on whether or not these are real photographs or digitally altered. Needless to say, I did rather poorly scoring only 5 out of 10. I’m sure most of you have already seen the majority of these pictures and like I, dismissed them as hoaxes.

See how well you can do