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addLib App Simulates Sleek Swiss Style for iPhone Pics
Ever fancied yourself a graphic designer but found that you lack the skills to compose an arresting image? As usual nowadays, the iPhone has come to your rescue. A new app called addLib will translate your iPhone photos into works of modernist Swiss ... Read more →
Is the Leica M9 Worth the Hype?
2 months ago on SwitchedHYPE CHECK Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera What it is: The cult of Leica originated in the '40s, when Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Magnum photographers first brought the so-called "decisive moment" into the cultural consciousness. Their ...
Tween 'Boyz' Use Nikon Cameras to Be Living, Dancing Projectors
2 months ago on SwitchedOh, Japan, will we ever understand your madness? From the country of USB breast warmers and the electro diva Mu now come the Helicopter Boyz in Yomiuri Land. Naoki Ito, of the ad agency GT Tokyo, decided to enlist these tweens for a Nikon promotion ...
StreetView: 'Move Over, Robert Frank!' as Artist Finds Google's Oeuvre
2 months ago on SwitchedIt wasn't too long ago that Google Maps took to the streets with its army of camera-equipped cars as it embarked on its quest to photograph every avenue in the world. As they archived all these random images of daily life and human existence, they ...
New Toothbrush Equipped With Tiny Spy Cam
2 months ago on SwitchedFor the spy with a thing for dental hygiene, may we present the perfect gift: It's overpriced ($243), electric, and it'll record grainy video while polishing pearly whites. The Pinhole Spy Toothbrush Hidden Camera DVR proves that there's nothing that ...
Gift Guide: Leica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera
3 months ago on SwitchedLeica M9 Digital Rangefinder Camera (Gadget Head, Cost No Object) The Leica brand has represented the ne plus ultra of photographic excellence for nearly a century, and continues to burnish its impeccable rep with its new M9 ($7,000). As ...
Silk-Silicon Implants Could Connect to Your Brain, Enable LED Tattoos
3 months ago on SwitchedBiology and technology are increasingly crossing paths these days, so it comes as no surprise that researchers have found a way to literally fuse the two, creating implantable technology for the 21st century. Researchers have developed a new type ...
Gift Guide: JVC HD Everio GZ-HM400 Camcorder
3 months ago on SwitchedJVC HD Everio GZ-HM400 (Creative, Under $1,000) If you aspire for your homemade movies to be more 'American Beauty' than America's Funniest, you'll need to forgo the raft of pocket-sized but underpowered HD camcorders and opt for a ...
Man Sues Over Spying Baby Monitor That Picks Up Baby, Neighbors
3 months ago on SwitchedPeople get up in arms about unwarranted wiretapping of civilians or even suspected terrorists. Babies, though, have always been fair game. For whatever reason, parents have never had any moral qualms about using baby monitors to invade the privacy ...
Video Spy Cam Hidden in Car Key Fob
3 months ago on SwitchedIt might not be the smallest camera we've ever seen, but the Fake Car Key Spy Camera definitely would be a nice stocking stuffer for an Inspector Gadget in training. The camera is designed to look like a remote device that unlocks a car, shoots ...
Wearable Vicon Camera Lets You Log Every Moment of Your Life
3 months ago on SwitchedPotentially taking the place of moms and their ever-flashing cameras, a new device allows people to document their lives simply by wearing it. According to New Scientist, U.K.-based firm Vicon has licensed technology from Microsoft Research Cambridge ...
New Canon App Lets You Print From Your iPhone
3 months ago on SwitchedSick of of transferring all those photos from your iPhone or iPod touch to your computer whenever you want to print? A new, free app from Canon, which was launched today, will cut out the middleman, making it easier to turn digital image albums into ...
Web Game Rewards Voyeurs for Monitoring Real Security Cameras
4 months ago on SwitchedIn what he says is an effort to combat petty crime, a British businessman is asking wannabe spies to take part in a revolutionary Internet game. Next month, Tony Morgan will launch the crime-fighting service Internet Eyes, which will allow regular ...
Erin Andrews Stalker Banned From Internet
4 months ago on SwitchedEven the most casual of male sports fans is probably familiar with the stellar career of ESPN sideline reporter Erin Andrews. When she's not delivering spellbinding, up-to-the-minute reports about the finer intricacies of a coach's halftime speech, ...
Amateurs Send First HD Camcorder Into Space via Balloon
4 months ago on SwitchedIf you're afraid of heights (or easily nauseated), this story might not be for you. On August 23rd, a group of amateur radio enthusiasts in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, took a high-definition video camera to new heights, literally. Reaching 107,145 ...
Billionaire's Yacht Blasts Lasers at Spying Paparazzi
4 months ago on Switcheddigg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/22/billionaires-yacht-blasts-lasers-at-spying-paparazzi/'; The world's largest, costliest, and most private yacht, owned by Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, has two heli-pads, a missile defense ...


