iPhone Photography Award Winners Showcase Stunning Smartphone Photos
The winners of the 2013 iPhone Photography Awards have been announced recently, showing the best of human creativity and the amazing capabilities of your smartphone to take mind blowing pictures. From towering architecture, to stunning vistas, and some haunting portraits to boot, these award winners are shaking the 'hipster' image of iPhone snaps.
University Team Create Hi-Res 3D Camera Using Lasers
Not content with claiming our movies and our televisions, 3D is now taking our photographs with a camera system that creates 3D images using lasers from over a kilometre away. And that's no fuzzy blurry image either. From over 1000 metres this camera can snap crisp, high-definition images that are accurate to the millimetre.
Fujitsu's Camera Software Reads Pulse In Real-Time By Looking At Your Face
Biometrics have flourished in past years. From securing your smartphone to tracking people through airports, it's gained a lot of interest. Fujitsu Laboratories is no exception to this trend, and from it’s continued development, they have created camera software that can read a person pulse from just their face.
'1 Second Everyday' App Builds Movie Using The Rest Of Your Life
New iPhone app 1 Second Everyday gives the capability of building a movie that includes one second of every day for the rest of your life. Through the simple interface, users can savea chronological combination of short clips to form an interesting new take on the video diary.
'Bounce Imaging' Ball-Shaped Camera To Help Emergency Services
As first responders face the common risk of entering areas without knowledge of the hazards they could be facing inside, US start-up Bounce Imaging have created something rather innovative to help with this situation: a ball with six cameras placed inside, instantly sending a 360-degree picture to a smartphone.
‘World’s Smallest Wearable Camera’ Lets Users Record Their Daily Lives
Our lives may not always be super exciting, but even so, life experiences come and go without a moments notice. Once special moments are consigned to memory, and later often forgotten completely. And this is where a new Kickstarter project comes in.
Military-Made Android Malware Spies Through Your Smartphone Camera
Researchers from the U.S. Navy and Indiana University have created an Android app named PlaceRaider, which can secretly create a 3D virtual map of your location using your smartphone's camera.
Nowhere To Hide: FBI To Roll-Out $1 Billion Facial Recognition System
The FBI has revealed its plans to launch a $1 billion Minority Report-like facial recognition system across the United States so unprecedented in scope that it will be able to be used to identify criminals with greater than 90 percent accuracy.
'Hiding Duck Project:' A Kickstarter Crowdfilming Platform To Combat Human Rights Abuse
A Kickstarter project has been opened to provide a secure and free network of hardware and software for the over 500 citizen journalists in Syria, Egypt and Bahrain to record the acts of abuse to human rights.
Researchers Develop Robotic Camera That Accurately Mimics Eye Movement
Researchers at the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology have succeeded in developing a robotic camera system equipped with muscle-like action that replicates the muscle motion of the human eye in ways never before seen. It is hoped the milestone will eventually make robotic tools safer, as well as making camera feeds from robots more intuitive to use.
University Researchers Develop Gigapixel Camera Delivering Snaps Of One Billion Pixels
A team of researchers have developed the a gigapixel camera , the AWARE-2, capable of producing images with a resolution five times better than 20/20 human vision (that’s snapshots of one billion pixels each) over a 120-degree by 50-degree field of view.
The Instagram Camera Is The Modern-Day Polaroid Camera, With Added Social Features
Having already been behind some of the most gorgeous iPhone 5 concept designs currently filtering through the many layers of the net, artist Antonia De Rosa of ADR Studio is now turning his sights on a Polaroid-like camera inspired by social photo-sharing app Instagram.
Early Press Screening For The Hobbit Fails To Wow Critics, 48fps Is A Killer
He might have served ever-faithful fans of the source material, the more po-faced critics of the film world - The Return of the King was the first fantasy film to win Best Picture, remember – and New Line Cinema with his ambitious adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic fantasy trilogy The Lord Of The Rings, but Peter Jackson faces an uphill struggle to appease them all with trilogy prequel double-header The Hobbit if early reactions to press screenings are to be believed.
The Ikea Camera Is Cardboard, Holds 40 Photos and Is Fully Recyclable
Swedish furniture retailer Ikea might be known around the world for its 'blink-and-you'll-get-lost', crazy-big warehouse stores and insistence on flat-pack furniture, but its latest creation is one more suited to holiday snappers than DIY enthusiasts.
BubbleScope And BubblePix Hands On
Panoramic photography has always had its difficulties. There's always the strong likelihood that you may go too fast or too slow in one of the shot frames, leaving for an unwanted deformation of the picture. Then there's the sight of a person spinning in one spot, looking like a fool and visually demonstrating just what you look like doing the same.
Well that's not a problem now, thanks to the Bubblescope.
Gizmodo Films Co-Workers Gushing Over The 'New iPad' (It's Really An iPad 2)
Though revisions and re-launches of older hardware models is nothing new, at the current pace companies are getting through iterations, there is a definite feeling creeping in of feeling burnt-out by incremental updates to hardware/software or a combination of the two. Apple's new iPad will quite deservedly draw many people in with its super-crisp retina display (a 'resolution' in tablet PC's, as many are putting it), slightly better camera (who really takes photos or videos with their unwieldy iPad anyway), admittedly more powerful processor and 4G capabilities (the UK has no networks using such connectivity). But is that enough of a reason to make the jump from the iPad, let alone the iPad 2?
MIT builds a Camera that shoots at the speed of light
The MIT media lab researchers have created a camera which captures at a shutter speed of one trillion frames per second, meaning it can actually record the travelling of photons of light between points.
The team hit the breakthrough taking a picture of a laser beam as it passed through a fizzy drink bottle, using a sophisticated system with a modified Streak Tube to intensify the photons and a pretty beasty-sized camera. The footage that was captured required multiple hundreds of takes of the same experiment, creating quite a beautiful stop motion film of multiple beams of light reflecting through the bottle, collecting in the cap and dispersing.
Peter Jackson reveals filming rigs behind The Hobbit
See how the iPhone camera has improved over the years
So the iPhone started as a phone that didn't really break a sweat over making an effort on the afterthought they called a camera. Fast forward to the 4 and we have something that takes stunning photographs, and actually has a flash! But how much has the camera improved since the first inception? This is a question that Lisa Bettany has answered.
iPhone 4S shoots video as well as Canon EOS 5D
A special rig, designed by Robino films, enabled both a £2,500 Canon EOS 5D and iPhone 4S to record exactly the same shot for a comparison. The results are surprising.