04.29.2008
I'm a huge, huge Flip camera fan, but if I had money to spend and a really serendipitous life where there was good stuff to record more often than not, I'd invest in Sony's Handycam camcorder, HDR-TG1. This hot little device will be available on May 30, 2008, in time for summer fun, the wedding season, vacations, and all your sun-filled adventures.
The HDR-TG1 is a small and slim titanium encased camcorder that delivers full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution video recording. In spite of this device being enormously sexy, expensive, and seemingly fragile, it's actually built for taking everywhere and for the fumble fingers in all of us. The titanium body is protected with Premium Hard Coating to provide resistance to even the smallest scratches.
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04.21.2008
The new pink and silver Panasonic Lumix DMC FS20P is a 10 megapixel digital camera with 30mm wide-angle lens, 4x optical zoom, Intelligent Auto Mode and 3.0" Diagonal Intelligent LCD - which translated, means it's easy to use, has a huge screen, great resolution, and handy features to quarantee a great photo. As a camera is only as good as it's lens, this is covered by a Leica, one of the best makers of lenses.
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04. 9.2008
Imagine being stuck in a downpour, your destination still miles away - and you have nothing other than an umbrella to protect yourself. You resign to a dull, wet journey, right? Not if the umbrella happens to be the Pileus WiFi Camera umbrella.
The Pileus umbrella seems like it came straight out of a sci-fi movie – it has a built-in camera that you can use to shoot pictures in the rain, plus other add-ons too. That includes a GPS system (wow) and in the future, a video camera as well. Though I choose to be skeptical about the picture quality you'l get out of the camera under such weather conditions, I have to concede that the concept is definitely unique. The Pileus also has integration with Flickr! With a wireless Internet connection in place, the photos you click can be uploaded to Flickr at the touch of a button on the handle! Or you can browse photos from Flickr on the umbrella’s webbed innards just by “a snap of your wrist.”
I think the reasons behind the creation of this umbrella would be as interesting as the features themselves. There's no word yet on the release or detailed specs, but expect to see it selling soon on Sharp Edge.
Via Shiny Shiny.
More on innovative umbrellas:
Self Standing Umbrella
Weather forecasting umbrella, plan for puddles
Almost unbreakable umbrella: Senz
Music in the Rain
NanoNuno umbrella featured in Time's Best Inventions 2006
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03.31.2008
Legendary British nature documentary maker David Attenborough (you may be familiar with his work if you saw the groundbreaking and epic Planet Earth has developed an oddly effective new way to film his favourite subjects - reclusive wild animals - in their natural habitat.
For his new program, Tiger - Spy in the Jungle, currently showing on BBC1 in the UK (and no doubt in America and the rest of the world soon), he got exclusive footage of tiger cubs, and was able to follow them from newborns to adulthood thanks to an inventive new filming technique. Trunk cams.
Yes, somehow Attenborough and his team got elephants to film the action in India's Pench National Park, using cameras made to camouflage with their trunks. (I swear this isn't an April Fool).
You can read more about this revolution in nature documentary making here, but I still don't understand how the elephants were persuaded to participate. I hope they at least got union rates.
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03.21.2008
If I didn't work from home and had anything approaching a decent sense of balance, I could totally see myself cycling to work. But I hear a lot of horror stories from cyclists in major cities about drivers who just don't respect the environmental option and try to hustle bike riders off the road. A company called Action Cameras suggests that cyclists try one of their wireless helmet cameras to catch these criminals in the act. The video cameras attach to a cycling helmet and record directly to an SD card (up to 2 GB is available).
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03.17.2008
Since I prefer text-based forms of communication that don't shame me for not having brushed my hair and still being in my pajamas at 4 in the afternoon, I've never been a fan of the web camera. I tolerate the presence of the ones built into my mobile devices, but I rarely install the corresponding software to get it to work.
Pair that with the fact that this skull web camera ($65.36) from GeekStuff4U terrifies me to the core (the pained expression of that evil skeleton being strangled by the cobra's tail will haunt me tonight), and you'll understand why you won't ever see me online.
And no, it doesn't make a difference that the 1.3-megapixel camera will record my movements at a fluid 30 frames per second. Because you know for a fact that the minute I look into that lens, those skulls will come to life and shoot laser beams from their eyes. And don't even get me started about the centipede/millipede.
Via Shiny Shiny.
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03.12.2008
The more we get away from traditional camera designs, with sleeker, smaller digital cameras, the more nostalgic I get about old film cameras. This miniature digital camera, the Rolleiflex MiniDigi AF5.0 from Komomura Corp., is modelled after the legendary twin lens Rolleiflex, which were everywhere a few decades ago, and are still sold today. The 5 megapixel retro camera is priced at 43,050 Japanese Yen (about $420).
Via Nikkei Weekly (subscription).
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02. 6.2008
Photo: Nikon D300 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Nikkor Zoom LensPrice: $2,479.95 and ranked 5/5 stars with 51 customer reviews!
Back in December 2007, I made my first post about a mid-range Digital SLR camera that I had just purchased - the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi. (scroll mid-way down the gift guide to read).
In advance of posting about a new group of wonderful long-lensed SLR’s arriving to market in the next few weeks, I wanted to guide you towards a wonderful article recently written by Mike Davidison, CEO of Newsvine, “A Rookie Guide to Digital SLR Cameras.”
Mike dives right in and explains the query that so many of us reach after owning a number of pocket-fitting 7-10 megapixel cameras, “What’s the story with the SLR?” Why would I want to own such a big bulky camera? And, make that serious of an investment? And, if I do, when is the right time?
As you look forward to my upcoming series of posts on these bulky, sexy, snapping, shooting, SLRs in the coming weeks, take a moment to get a better understanding of what’s behind the technology and how it applies or doesn’t apply to your own photographic needs.
Visit Mike’s post over at his blog: mikeindustries.com.
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02. 1.2008
According to the founder, Lesley Mattos, of Adesso Albums, the idea for the company "was hatched at a wedding in Italy when the bride asked me to take Polaroid pictures of guests and scotch tape them into a scrapbook where they’d write a note. I realized there must be an easier way to save these memories." Voila, instant photo guest books were born.
Guests can leave sappy, sentimental notes with a photo of themselves in the specially designed
slots. It creates a unique keepsake and a great gift idea for a wedding, baby shower, anniversarry, Bat Mitvah, you name it.
Originally designed to work with Polaroid cameras (you can still buy a starter kit with a Polaroid camera and album for $139), now their big sellers are the digital camera books. (Soon they will be offering the brand-new Zink process, the new printing technology that does not require ink cartridges to produce photos.)
Adesso has albums for all occasions, and for a few extra bucks you can have the leather books personalized with embossing. Check their site for pricing.
The one drawback - ah, you saw it too - is that someone has to encourage folks to take photos at the sign-in. I figure a well-placed sign would do the trick, or failing that, someone stationed at the guest sign-in, armed with a camera and plenty of alcohol.
I already bought one for a Bat Mitvah we're attending in March. Not for the lovely Bat (Alexandra), but for the parents. They're gonna love me for it.
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