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Nikon Coolpix S80 Point-and-Shoot: 14.1MP with a 3.5″ OLED Touchscreen

The Nikon Coolpix S80 takes up where the S70 left off: bumping the megapixels up to 14.1 (from 12.1), upgrading the 3.5″ touchscreen to OLED, and rounding some corners for a decidedly sleeker (like .7″ thick sleek) look.
The S80′s touchscren will let you draw and stamp right on your pictures, just like recently announced S1100pj projector-cam, and it carries over the S70′S 5x optical zoom and 720p video capabilities.
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Nikon Coolpix S8100: A 1080p, 10x Zoom Point-and-Shoot That Actually Fits In Your Pocket

Any point-and-shoot can fit in your bag, but not every point-and-shoot can fit in your pants. The super-slim Nikon S8100, however, doesn’t sacrifice power for pocketability: it shoots 1080p video; and has 10x optical zoom and 10fps full-res high-speed shooting.
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Nikon’s First Pro-Worthy Point-and-Shoot

Oh, I’ve been waiting for this little camera for a long time: A pro-worthy Nikon point-and-shoot. After the bizarre melange of features in Nikon’s last flagship camera—uh, ethernet jack?—the P7000 is nakedly all about performance.
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Nanotech Breakthrough Could Make Satellite Imaging 20x More Powerful

Take a few of my favorite subjects: quantum dots, satellites, and gold. Mix them together, and what do you get? A breakthrough from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute that could revolutionize infrared detection. Somewhere, the Predator is jealous.
What the RPI researchers have managed to do increase detectivity in quantum dot-based IR detectors 20 times over—is particularly remarkable in that they’re able to greatly enhance the signal of the detector without also increasing the noise.
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