Assorted tech photos

More assorted photos I've accumulated over the past week, wrapped to protect the bandwidth challenged. As usual, click on the image to visit the source.

( 10 images below the cut )

Hear me Roar!

Tech Stories for 11-July-2008

Privacy protections can end with a judge's order - A contributor to PhysOrg reminds readers that company-held repositories of private data can be released with the stroke of a judge's pen.

The indestructible umbrella - Wired presents a video shows a combat-grade umbrella.

Memristor RAM prototype in the works - HP plans have a prototype of a new type of high-speed non-volatile RAM, called RRAM (Resistive Random Access Memory), working by some time in 2009.

Children naturally empathic - fMRI studies of children show that their brains respond to sights of people in pain is if it were happening to them.