SurfFoo for April 17th

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Gems from the Web:

• HaptiTouch 2.0 Will Make You Forget All About That Silly iPhone - …yet another “iPhone killer”. Yeah, as if…
• NAB Video - AJA IO-HD at FreshDV - Details and Q&A on AJA’s new HD ingest/encoder/breakout box solution. HD-SDI, Firewire 800, supports the new ProRes codec on-board, and many many other options.
• RedScoop3.mov (video/quicktime Object) - Exclusive interview with Red founder. If only they had used a tie mike…
• NAB: Red tidbits - Final Cut Studio 2 will NOT ship at first with Redcode RAW support - so Final Cut Pro 6.0.0 won’t have it, but a future release will.
• The Dilbert Blog - One of Douglas’ one-line-gems: “I’d write more, but I have to go earn money for the government to flush down the toilet.”
• Are mobile phones wiping out our bees? - The theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees’ navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem, there is now evidence to back this up.
• Package Delivery 2.0 - After some bad experiences with package delivery, Peter describes how the experience should have been.
• Studio Daily | RED at NAB, Part 2 - RED is developing a Professional Pocket Camera - a miniature camera. RED is also developing a new line of 4k displays. RED is also developing a new 4k projector.
• Studio Daily Blog » RED makes major announcements at NAB - At the opening of NAB this morning I interviewed Ted Schilowitz. Here’s a summary of the new announcements.
• Studio Daily | RED at NAB - “I’ve reserved two RED ONE camera systems and several RED lenses. In the coming months, I’ll put them through a grueling series of mobile productions around the world in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, Caribbean, the South Pacific and beyond.” Am looking foreward to that
• 25 Reasons You Might Be A Hardcore Graphic/Web Designer - After some deep thought, I came up with this list of signs that you might be a hardcore designer. A lot of these signs can overlap other professions too. Indeed.