Category: Cameras

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, ...

Thanks to technology like Google Earth, you can visit places with a few clicks and keystrokes. But Google Earth uses GPS to create 3-D maps of locations, which means you can't venture "inside" the structures to really get a feel for the space. That could soon change. According to a report by San Francisco's ABC News 7 (catch it after the break), professors and graduate students at the ...

With a laser and a webcam, Autodesk research engineer Andy Barry has created an affordable 3-D scanner. Instead of crafting a better scanner than what's currently on the market, his goal is "to make it really cheap, so we can build a million of them, and get it out to everybody." The scanner's name, MakerScanner, derives from Barry's intent for his scanners to be paired with MakerBot 3-D ...

More flip-flopping on the body-scanning debate: even though the Transportation Security Administration has roundly decreed that the millimeter-wave systems in use at several major airports do not store images of your naked bulk, the U.S. Marshals Service just admitted that it had saved "approximately 35,314 images" from a single Orlando, Florida courthouse, according to CNN. Whoops! This ...

Brazil -- land of caipirinhas, Carnival and one of the world's highest crime rates per capita -- will be a bit more like the world of 'The Running Man' starting next week. In one of the scariest advertising schemes known to us, Unilever's detergent line Omo will be placing GPS devices in select boxes of suds throughout the country. According to Advertising Age, "consumers who buy one of the ...

Your faithful writer, bolstered by assurance in the strides we're making with shark-detecting technologies, was planning another trip to the beach this weekend. But it suddenly dawned on him that this August 1st will see the 2010 premiere of Shark Week! For shark-phobic rubbernecks, Shark Week is the ultimate car crash, keeping us glued to the television for tales (and tails) of torment and ...

We've held off from reporting on Sergey Larenkov's computational rephotography, perhaps due do to the link-bait, ludicrous headlines that other outlets have chosen to run, like "Ghosts Now Officially Exist" and "Camera Software Lets You See Into the Past." Computational rephotography is the process of matching a historic photo's perspective with a new one, and it has lately been automated by the ...

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, ...

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 ...

As it's done with just about everything in the world of technology, Japan has just taken targeted advertising to a whole new (and wholly creepy) level. According to a new report out of Tokyo, several companies have begun testing digital billboards that can instantly identify the age and gender of anyone who walks in front of its attached cameras. Once the data is collected, the billboard then ...

Artist-slash-entrepreneur-slash-maniac Josh Harris has always been somewhat obsessed with real-time webcam surveillance. But his latest project, 'Wired City,' might just take real-time video interaction to a whole new, zany level. As TechCrunch explains, "Wired City is like Chatroulette on steroids." The game starts when webcam-equipped users (or "ChatStars") go to video chat rooms, where they ...

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. ...

Dubai, the Las-Vegas-of-the-Middle-East-turned-economic-wasteland, is rejecting full-body scanners at its airports because they "contradict Islam," according to Brigadier Pilot Ahmad Mohammad Bin Thani, who is the head of airport security for Dubai police. Concerned about the "privacy of individuals and their personal freedom," Bin Thani remarked to the Associated Free Press that Dubai will use ...

Not content to rule the PC market, Intel is trying to shoehorn its chips into everything it can find. The latest target of the chip giant is the automobile, which it hopes to make truly "smart" by way of processors, sensors and wireless transmitters. At the company's latest Research Day event, it showed off an electric vehicle equipped with cameras and sensors that stop just short of turning it ...

You might not realize it, but you live everyday with an arbitrarily imposed, but very real limitation on the quality of digital images. Russell Kirsch created the first digital image, over 50 years ago, when he scanned a photo of his then infant son (on the right in its original size). When deciding how to render the ones and zeros, Kirsch decided on the seemingly logical choice at the time -- ...