Tag: CAMERAS

Share Edward Horsford captured these high-speed images of water balloons at the precise moment they exploded -- and the results are truly incredible. As NPR explains, Horsford took the photos at night, in his own backyard, using a specially timed flash mechanism to get the absolutely perfect shot. A timer on his camera ensures a long exposure of one to two seconds, while an attached microphone ...

You've rallied the troops, you've waltzed right into your buddy Billy's old apartment complex, and are throwing a 3 a.m. pool party. You've got your crunk rap, your beers and your excuse. ("Billy said it'd be fine, officer....") But, how are you going to remember all the dimly lit, underwater antics from this epic, slightly illegal happening? The UNDERABOVE, cousin. ...

The videotape camcorder is dead -- long live the pocket digital video recorder! Flip's award-winning series of mini high-definition camcorders are that magic hybrid of quality and simplicity we adore, and have become the iPod of its genre. The UltraHD is Flip's top-shelf offering, a lightweight, well-built and shirt pocket-ready HD video shooter that captures up to 2 hours of crisp 720p video at ...

After the break, you may watch an interview with the world's strangest cameraman (conducted by CNN's strangest reporter, no less). We mentioned him a while back, but artist Wafaa Bilal has successfully implanted a camera in his noggin. Having named his project 'The 3rd I,' Bilal will transmit the once-a-minute snapshots to a display at the Mathaf: The Arab Museum of Modern Art in Qatar. ...

Occam's Razor: The obvious solution turns out to be the right one, too. Aquapac's line of waterproof camera bags are, in essence, stupidly obvious; they're essentially industrial-strength Ziploc bags with a patented seal. But, hey, we aren't hatin'. They get the job done, and allow low-budget mortals like us to go where only professionals have dared venture, deep into the drink with our precious ...

Share Four years ago, Peter Trayhurn and Geoff Tosio found themselves floating adrift five miles off the coast of Australia, and facing the terrifying possibility that they might never be found. They had been exploring underwater caves when the anchor line on their boat snapped, and the vessel drifted away. Miraculously, Trayhurn and Tosio were spotted by a ship, plucked from the water, and ...

Finland is testing out a new traffic cam that not only spies you when you speed, but uses image-analysis software to read your license plate, check your insurance and tax status, and even determine whether or not you're wearing your seatbelt. Not creeped out yet? The ASSET speed cameras can also dole out tickets for tailgating, by measuring the distance between you and the car in front of you. ...

Professional athletes already employ motion-capture technology and 3-D imaging to identify weaknesses in their various swings, gaits and throwing motions. Now, another group of dedicated and intense professionals hopes to perfect the techniques of its members through a similar system of video analysis. According to CNET, the second-grade classroom at Cesar Chavez Elementary School in San ...

We already know that kites outfitted with cameras can provide a DIY alternative to satellite imagery, as was evidenced in Grassroots Mapping's overhead shots of the oil-strangled Gulf Coast. Now, Frank Taylor, the author of the Google Earth Blog (not officially affiliated with the Menlo Park-based Net behemoth), has provided his favorite aerial imagery producer with some hi-res shots of his own, ...

An MIT graduate student has discovered a way to check a person's pulse with a plain-old, low-res webcam. According to MIT, Ming-Zher Poh has used open-source face-tracking software, and measured the variations in brightness resulting from blood vessels pumping blood in the face. Poh's method, which doesn't involve any sensors, produced pulse readings that were within three beats per minute of the ...

Luke Geissbühler and his children are hardly the first people to send a weather balloon up into space with an HD camera attached. But that doesn't stop us from watching in awe every time we see a DIY craft go up and send back shaky footage of Earth's blue atmosphere bleeding into the black void of space. The video was captured by a high-defintion camera stashed with an iPhone (for GPS ...

Ever tried to stage a lunar landing? Well, chances are, it didn't go so well, or even resemble the 1969 event at all. Luckily, a Hasselblad MKWE just went up for sale on eBay at the low price of $33,751. This camera was made specifically for NASA by Hasselblad, and was used by moon-walkers to capture those historic images of golf swings and patriotism. Now, to find a spare spacesuit... ...

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 ...

The classic Holga camera's cheap construction makes for unplanned vignetting, odd color recreation and unpredictable imaging, all of which made it the analog format du jour in the late aughts. Designer Saikat Biswas's Holga D concept takes the iconic, film-based camera into the digital realm with a full-frame digital sensor, E-ink display and little else. Focusing on film's quality of delayed ...

The first step to solving the Gulf Coast oil crisis, as with any problem, is figuring out just how large and expansive the spill really is. As scientists, lawmakers, and Kevin Costner continue to debate the best way to stop the gushing, a group of academics at MIT are doing their part to track the disaster as it unfurls. The project, called Grassroots Mapping, uses camera-equipped kites to ...