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Geek: Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Popular Science posted this amazing satellite image of Barack Obama's inauguration, two million people captured in amazing crispness by commercial satellite GeoEye-1. You can check them out on our blog. Flow935.com

Here’s what Robots are up to…..
Tiny robots so small they can be injected into the bloodstream could soon be used to help carry out surgical procedures. Scientists have created micro-motors -- just twice the width of a human hair -- which will power tiny robots around the body of stroke victims. Doctors will be able to control the robot gaining a unique view of things like a stroke-damaged cranial artery via a camera mounted to the front.

Random geekieness
Tom Cruise says he's interested in turning last week's Hudson River plane crash into a movie. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Cruise said that he's considering adapting the incident for film. Cruise, who earned his private pilot's license in 1994, praised the pilot for doing a "heroic" job, saying: "I know what it's like, because we train for emergencies and then for it to happen and to have it turn out the way it did -- that's how we want them all to end."