Tag: CAMERA

Share We always thought that the rise of digital photography would, at one point or another, render film obsolete. According to Kodak, however, we (and virtually everyone else) were all wrong. As Wired reports, the iconic film company is enjoying something of a counterintuitive renaissance in this digital age, as sales of color film remain strong, and black-and-white film sales are actually ...

We might as well learn to love 3-D, because Fujifilm (and nearly every other manufacturer) isn't going to hold back on the tech. Fujifilm is giving 3-D cameras another go in September by releasing the FinePix Real 3D W3, which captures 3-D AVI photos and videos at a high-def quality resolution of 720p. Why would consumers buy this camera when Fujifilm's first 3-D camera, the FinePix Real 3D W1, ...

We've all lost a high-tech gadget or two to that most low-tech of the natural elements: water. (Or, in the recent case of this writer's laptop, coffee.) Always miles ahead of us stateside folk, who have alternately used hair dryers and bowls of quick rice to dry out our devices, the Japanese have implemented the Dryer Box, a sort of clothes dryer for drowned gadgets. The copy-machine-sized ...

Share Golfers are notorious for dropping thousands of dollars on swing coaches to lower their scores, but a new camcorder claims to render those costly lessons unnecessary by making you the coach. According to DVICE, the V-Swing is a hands-free camcorder that attaches to a golf bag and records your swing as close as six feet from the tee. The $350 device has a wide-angle lens mounted on a long, ...

First, Barbie went nerd, and, now, with the release of Barbie Video Girl, she's suddenly gone all Peeping Tom on us. The new doll, at first glance, looks like any other disproportionate, run-of-the-mill Barbie. A closer look at her, um, cleavage, however, would reveal a camera embedded discreetly within her necklace. And, on her back, is a color LCD screen. That's right, girls of all ages can now ...

Think of how much you love your iPhone. Now picture it with a Canon EF 70-200mm strapped to the front end. Did your heart just well up? 'Cause ours didn't. Yet, for Apple fanboy Jeremy Salvador, the idea of pimping out his iPhone with an adaptor to fit any Canon EF lens seemed too good to pass up. After buying an Owle iPhone mount, he decided that its array of built in excessiveness was not ...

While newer smartphones like the iPhone 4 and HTC Evo are coming with 5-megapixel (or higher) cameras these days, the lowly cameraphone is still known for its blurry, out-of-focus shots. The crew at the Fstoppers video blog claims the quality of your image isn't tied to the quality of your camera, and to test this, co-founder and photographer Lee Morris put the iPhone 3GS's camera to the test. ...

If there's one thing Hollywood has taught us, it's that the Earth will most likely be destroyed by a flaming rock from outer space. Luckily, researchers are hip to this idea. According to Space.com, a massive telescope anchored in Hawaii houses the world's largest digital camera, which scans the sky for asteroids that could eradicate humanity. The PS1 telescope, which sits on a volcanic peak in ...

It's summer, which means your gadgets will be spending some time around water. But a trip to the beach or lake doesn't have to spell doom for a camera or cell phone. Lifehacker recently wrote about some cheap and easy ways to waterproof a gadget (and protect against STDs, too!) Believe it or not, you can use a clear, non-lubricated condom as a waterproof bag for cameras and other hydro-sensitive ...

Sergeant de Bruin of the Royal Dutch Navy was scuba diving off the coast of Aruba exploring a wreck on the sea floor when he lost grip on his digital camera, and watched it drift away in the ocean currents. Seven months later, his bright red cam, still in its water-proof plastic case, washed up on the shores of Key West, Florida. Paul Shultz found the Nikon washed up against the rocks 1,100 miles ...

Well, those crazy kids at MIT have done it again. We're pretty floored by this video (after the jump) of student Natan Linder's LuminAR robotic assistant, which looks like a desk lamp married to the Terminator's exoskeleton. And a task lamp was, in fact, Linder's inspiration for this gesture-driven droid, as he essentially replaced the traditional incandescent bulb with a state-of-the-art ...

Judging by past experiments, Volkswagen believes autonomous features are the future of the automotive industry. According to Engadget, the auto manufacturer's 2011 Phaeton has a dash-mounted camera that reads street signs and adjusts to lessen glare from oncoming headlights. Once a street sign has been read, the information (e.g., traffic information, speed limit) is displayed on the car's ...

Shooting video with digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras like the Canon 5D Mark II, 7D and T2i can produce some pretty fantastic results -- as a quick tour around Vimeo, or a viewing of films by Vincent Laforet or Philip Bloom will illustrate. But high-quality video doesn't shoot itself, and achieving superb results with a DSLR isn't as simple as pressing "record." Not only do you need to ...

Researchers at The University of California at San Diego have developed a tiny silicon chip that can detect the presence and plot the location of dangerous chemicals in the air. Their goal is to embed the chips in cell phones, which could then "map a chemical accident as it unfolds," says Michael Sailor, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the university. Much like the olfactory ...

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never move from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over their creations, nevertheless. ...