A young German guy has a detailed Instructable online this week that explains how you can exercise your inner narcissist and make a 3D paper clone of yourself.
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Videocalling has been a sci-fi staple for decades. From 2001 to Back to the Future people chatting face-to-face from great distances was a way of saying "Hey, look, it's the future!" So does FaceTime mean we're in the future?
FaceTime is
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There's something exhilarating about meeting someone new, whether it's in a coffee shop or online. That is, until your new pal pulls a Lyndon Johnson and
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Big Brother was watching before, but soon he'll bewatching with a whole new set of high-tech eyes. The US Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is creating a wide-eyed
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Have you been dying to capture your entire life on video, but worried you'll look like a weirdo with all those cameras and devices attached to you? Now you can just don your favorite pair of nerd glasses
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We're putting things that used to be on paper on video devices, things usually associated with large video screens onto pocket-sized devices, and now Sony is putting video on a flexible
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It's a testament to good design that the trusty Polaroid camera has remained a hot commodity even as digital fever has been busy blasting most other film-based gadgets to camera heaven over the last decade.
Fans of the instant photo
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With existing camera technology, capturing 3D images as the biological eye does is difficult and time consuming; basic stereoscopy requires two images to create a single 3D frame, which means that to shoot 3D video you need at least two cameras rolling on the same subject at the same time (even
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Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
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James Cameron's love of science and high-tech cameras has previously shone through with his undersea documentaries -- not to mention Titanic or even Avatar. Now the film director is playing "public engagement co-investigator" on NASA's upcoming
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Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
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The director of hit television series, House MD, has revealed via Twitter that the season finale of the latest series was filmed entirely on a Canon 5D Mk II DSLR camera. We’re not sure if this is part of a directorial stunt or pre-arranged marketing activity between Canon and the makers
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The problem with surveillance cameras is that they can see but they can't think, which means there always has to be a human on the other end making cognitive sense of what's right in front of the camera. But if we meshed machine vision with visual intelligence,
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With existing camera technology, capturing 3D images as the biological eye does is difficult and time consuming; basic stereoscopy requires two images to create a single 3D frame, which means that to shoot 3D video you need at least two cameras rolling on the same subject at the same time (even
Read more...
Have you been dying to capture your entire life on video, but worried you'll look like a weirdo with all those cameras and devices attached to you? Now you can just don your favorite pair of nerd glasses
Read more...
It's a testament to good design that the trusty Polaroid camera has remained a hot commodity even as digital fever has been busy blasting most other film-based gadgets to camera heaven over the last decade.
Fans of the instant photo
Read more...
James Cameron's love of science and high-tech cameras has previously shone through with his undersea documentaries -- not to mention Titanic or even Avatar. Now the film director is playing "public engagement co-investigator" on NASA's upcoming
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We're here in San Francisco for Apple's anticipated announcement
Update: Here are our hands on impressions of the iPad. Our liveblog with all the details of the announcement is archived
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Photographing animals in the wild traditionally requires a meticulously engineered infrared camera trap and good timing. Brothers Will and Matthew Burrard-Lucas, however, ingeniously attached a DSLR camera to a four-wheel-drive remote-control buggy, thus creating the BeetleCam.
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All the worthwhile highlights from Samsung's CES press conference
Samsung's CES press conference is usually the most lavish, and this year seems to be no different. Check out an up-close look at Samsung's standout new gear here, including their best new TV
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Cisco's pocket web-video recorder, the Flip, has received an update, with the new Flip MinoHD being announced for release. The new model can now record up to 120 minutes of video, which you can play back on a larger LCD screen. While the previous model felt a little like a toy with its clear
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Photographing animals in the wild traditionally requires a meticulously engineered infrared camera trap and good timing. Brothers Will and Matthew Burrard-Lucas, however, ingeniously attached a DSLR camera to a four-wheel-drive remote-control buggy, thus creating the BeetleCam.
Read more...
James Cameron's love of science and high-tech cameras has previously shone through with his undersea documentaries -- not to mention Titanic or even Avatar. Now the film director is playing "public engagement co-investigator" on NASA's upcoming
Read more...
Video gamers and warfighters alike will appreciate this stunning first-person-shooter view of a Dutch marine boarding team taking back a German merchant ship from Somali pirates. It's not hard to imagine many more soldiers of the future equipped with cameras so that commanders can have multiple
Read more...
With existing camera technology, capturing 3D images as the biological eye does is difficult and time consuming; basic stereoscopy requires two images to create a single 3D frame, which means that to shoot 3D video you need at least two cameras rolling on the same subject at the same time (even
Read more...
It's a testament to good design that the trusty Polaroid camera has remained a hot commodity even as digital fever has been busy blasting most other film-based gadgets to camera heaven over the last decade.
Fans of the instant photo
Read more...
We're putting things that used to be on paper on video devices, things usually associated with large video screens onto pocket-sized devices, and now Sony is putting video on a flexible
Read more...
Have you been dying to capture your entire life on video, but worried you'll look like a weirdo with all those cameras and devices attached to you? Now you can just don your favorite pair of nerd glasses
Read more...
A young German guy has a detailed Instructable online this week that explains how you can exercise your inner narcissist and make a 3D paper clone of yourself.
It's worth checking out
Read more...
This spooky image of a tiny nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502 was recently released by the Hubble Space Telescope, but perhaps even more eerie than the wispy, ghost-like appearance
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