British company ThruVision has developed a new camera, the T5000, that can detect weapons, drugs or explosives hidden under people’s clothes from up to 25 meters away in what could be a breakthrough for the security industry. The camera uses “passive imaging technology” to identify objects by the natural electromagnetic rays — known as Terahertz [...]
A new international, annual competition to launch in conjunction with the first ever New York Photo Festival, the New York Photo Awards, will honor talented photographers from all over the world whose exceptional work “breaks new grounds visually, intellectually and aesthetically.” The awards will give those visual artists the opportunity to reach key decision-makers in [...]
Police in Britain are conducting trials on a small battery-powered, radio-controlled helicopter called the Microdrone that comes with a camera and a loudspeaker. The manufacturer’s demonstration video points out that the copter works as a peeping tom device. (Not that the police would ever misuse it.)
From the Article: “It’s battery powered, so it’s quieter — [...]
What can you do with a 13 Gigapixel photo? Surprisingly, quite a lot, given the right software. New York artist Gerard Maynard worked together with Kolor Company to create a huge stitched-together panorama of Harlem. While the intent of their Harlem 13 Gigapixels site appears to be to show off the capabilities of Kolor’s Autopano [...]
Everyone knows the UK is the world’s most surveilled country, but learning just how surveilled shocks: A new report from Information Commissioner Richard Thomas claims one public-surveillance camera for every 14 people. More than 300 of these cameras listen through microphones. The national police also maintains a growing DNA database that now contains profiles [...]
Britain gets 1984 telescreens: CCTV cameras that bark at you when you do something wrong. Scary stuff, particularly when there’s a regular CCTV camera for every 5 people in Britain already.
Flickr user /\ltus has posted a stunning “high dynamic range” photo of the Tokyo skyline. HDR photos merge several shots at different exposures to create a hyperreal color that has to be seen to be believed. Be sure to view at full-size for maximum effect.
This is the camera of the moment…
The DC500 Hello Kitty is a 5Mpix camera supporting ISO 100, with a 2” display, SD card, and 32MB of internal memory.
And yes, it is only available in pink..!
*UPDATE* (11/21/06) - I know some of you are really looking forward to picking up this camera, and I am currently [...]
The Cool Tools weblog highlights Gorillapod, a small, flexible tripod tool that can attach itself to just about anything.
If you do much photography on the go (although I don’t do all that much, I’m sure there are a lot of you out there that do…), I’m sure you already know that lugging a tripod along [...]
If you’re a Nikon Coolpix customer with a WiFi-enabled digital camera, you’ll soon be able to walk by any T-Mobile WiFi hotspot and upload your pictures over the WiFi network to T-Mobile’s servers, where you’ll receive 50MB of space - no home or business network needed.
While this is a good concept, limiting users to a [...]
…from your photos. This free online service from FutureLAB can remove people who wander into frame while you’re trying to take the ultimate snapshot. The idea is that when people are milling about, you just take multiple pictures. Later, feed them into “TOURIST REMOVER,” and the online software figures out what doesn’t belong and builds [...]
Sony’s all out assault on the marketplace didn’t stop with those wonderful new HD camcorders of theirs, they’ve also got three new standard definition Handycam units to show off. The DCR-SR80 leads the pack with a 1 megapixel CCD, 60GB drive, 2.7-inch widescreen viewfinder, 12x optical zoom, a hot shoe, and $800 price tag; the [...]
With storage-intensive multimedia options becoming commonplace on so many handsets these days, external memory options are popping up on tons of handsets these days, and generally in a few different flavors — microSD and miniSD.
These are both SD-compatible, and one has to guess why miniSD was ever invented, since microSD is so much smaller and [...]
Those cats at MIT have been at it again: when not fooling around in their dorm rooms or playing with robot snails, they’re toiling away in the lab late at night developing technologies that could well become commonplace in our everyday lives. Their latest breakthrough is a sphere-shaped web of photo-detecting fibers that can measure [...]
Someone on Digg pointed out today that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently sailing around the Red Planet looking for signs of life sports a 1.2-gigapixel — yeah, gigapixel with a "g" — digital camera. This article says that from orbit, the camera is "capable of photographing objects as small as a kitchen table." If the [...]
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