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Photo viewers have been around for centuries (give or take a few score), but few have offered the capacity and speed found on the HyperDrive Album. Produced by none other than Sanho — the same dudes and dudettes responsible for those spectacular HyperMac batteries — this here device is essentially a 640GB pocket hard drive meant to suck down photos from your SD or CF card (it plays nice with both formats) as you shoot; it can either lighten the load on your memory card or act as on-site backup, and it’s reportedly capable of downloading 2GB per minute with full data verification. Better still, it’s capable of decoding and displaying RAW images on the 4.8-inch display (800 x 480 resolution), and the internal battery will last through 200GB worth of transfers. It’s available now for $599.99 (or less if you opt for a smaller / empty model), but don’t even bother if you’re looking for SDXC compatibility.

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This week, data from NASA’s Cassini probe has shed light on a couple of the stranger features of Saturn, providing answers to questions that were raised years ago. In terms of the planet itself, Cassini has spotted strange hexagonal patterns in the clouds near the north pole that were observed for the first and only time 30 years ago, when the Voyager probes swung by the planet. And researchers have used Cassini data to produce what they think are satisfying models for the strange coloration of Saturn’s moon Iapetus, something that was first noted over three centuries ago—by Cassini himself.

First, Iapetus, which would look like a fairly typical moon if it weren’t for a rather distinctive feature: the face that leads it around its orbit is about 10 times darker than its trailing face. This difference is so pronounced that Cassini himself reported it all the way back in 1677—both of today’s papers about the moon cite his paper in the the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (volume 12, page 831, for those inclined to look it up). In Arthur C. Clarke’s book 2001: A Space Odyssey, the moon’s bright side was created by an alien civilization as a way of drawing the intention of any intelligent life.

I have a deep and rather personal interest in earthquake and volcano prediction. This comes from spending most of my youth within a few kilometers of an active fault line and less than 100km from a volcano that has, in the past, left a layer of ash over most of the surface of the Earth. In fact, events in just the last year (nevermind the last decade) have convinced me that accurate earthquake and volcano prediction would probably be a bigger lifesaver than any other single scientific development.

So it was with interest that I read a recent Nature paper reporting that scientists might have been misinterpreting some aftershocks as earthquakes, leading them to overestimate the risk on some faults and underestimate the risk on others.

We’ve already explained why the push-up belongs in your fitness routine, but if you’ve grown weary of the standard method, weblog Art of Manliness rounds up “the ultimate push-up guide” with 35 variations on the classic, including “The Hindu”.

Concerning “The Hindu” push-up, Art of Manliness says the technique has been used for centuries and “consists of a dynamic full body movement that will build strength and flexibility in your chest, shoulders, back, hips, and triceps.”

Watch the above video to see the method in action. Two things to keep in mind when applying this technique:

• Make sure to get a good stretch in your back.
• The first time you perform a Hindu Push-up you might find yourself falling on your face during the initial descent.

If you’re looking to give your muscles even more of a workout, try “The Dive Bomber” push-up, which is performed exactly like The Hindu, except upon returning to the starting position, “you follow the same swooping motion you make on the descent in reverse”.

A third variation is “The Tiger,” which combines The Hindu and Dive Bomber. The Tiger focuses on your triceps and, if positioned properly, should look like an upside down V.

Browse the full post for the entire list of push-up variations—complete with videos—and if you’re looking for a push-up plan, check out previously mentioned One Hundred Push-Ups for details on how to go from 0 to 100 push-ups in a matter of six weeks. Still prefer doing crunches over push-ups? Here’s why you should switch gears and ditch the crunches now.