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OmniVision Looks To Step Up Smartphone Camera Capabilities

Shooting Video On Your Smartphone May Well Make It Into Much Higher Resolutions If OmniVision Has Its Way
By on Tuesday, 22. May 2012

The folks out at OmniVision have been responsible for some pretty impressive camera sensors before, with some even suggesting that they may well one day make iPhones even slimmer than they already are. But now, OmniVision has brought out an impressive new set of sensors that may offer even better [...]

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Pentax K-30 Gets Unexpected Leak Via French Catalog

French Catalog Features Listings For The K-30, A Previously Unannounced DSLR
By on Friday, 18. May 2012

It’s been a good long while since the folks at Pentax first wheeled out their K-R entry-level DSLR–in fact, we haven’t heard much about it since its bizarre new Gundam-style paint job–so it’s pretty safe to say that a replacement may be in order. And, if recent brushes with French [...]

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Spectral Instruments Develops Ultra-Powerful Image Sensor

Cameras With Extremely High Resolutions Become Possible With Spectral Instruments' New Sensor, But Not Without Some Issues
By on Friday, 18. May 2012

The newest image sensor from Spectral Instruments is powerful, to say the least. Extremely powerful, to be more accurate. Just how powerful is it? Well, it’s sufficiently powerful that it can take pictures of both the sun and the stars in the sky…in the same shot. That’s an absolutely preposterous [...]

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Apple Said To Be Working On Face Unlock System Similar To That Of Google, But Better

Recent Reports Emerge Of Apple Plans For A Facial Unlock System That Uses 3D Rendering
By on Thursday, 10. May 2012

We all remember the demonstration of Google’s Face Unlock system, an interesting idea that was later revealed to be not all that great when it was discovered that, in some cases, it could be beaten with the simple expedient of holding a photo up to the screen and allowing it [...]

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Fujifilm FinePix XP170 Provides Lots Of Protection For Photos

Fujifilm's New FinePix XP170 Is Surprisingly Rugged & Versatile As Well
By on Tuesday, 8. May 2012

Admittedly, one of the big problems faced by standard cameras these days is that, when you put them head to head against a smartphone camera, they fold like a house of cards. They generally can’t access the Internet to upload their shots as taken–some, however, can–and most of them can’t [...]

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RED Cancels Big Camera Showdown

Just Two Days After Launching The Take-All-Comers Contest, RED Pulls Its Offer For Unexpected Reason
By on Thursday, 3. May 2012

Remember Tuesday? Yeah, I remember Tuesday like it was just two days ago. Back when Jim Jannard of RED announced that the RED line of cameras would take on the world’s camera makers in a battle to see just who’s the best. Well, that contest is now sadly not to [...]

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RED Issues Camera Challenge To The World's Camera Makers

RED Means To Take On Every Other Camera Company On Earth In June 4th Face-Off, Issues Challenge To Any Camera Company
By on Tuesday, 1. May 2012

Well, you’ve got to hand it to RED and CEO Jim Jannard for sheer chutzpah; he and his company have issued a challenge to the world…or at least to the world’s camera makers. And the challenge is both simple and sweeping in its scope: take your best shots and put [...]

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Australian Scientists Plan Bionic Eyes For Human Testing Next Year

Human Testing Of The Bionic Eye Looks To Go Into Effect In 2013, Some Progress Already Being Made
By on Friday, 27. April 2012

If you’re a fan, as I am, of the comic series Transmetropolitan, you’re already familiar with the story of the quicktanks, machines geared toward building, from the ground up, a human body. The description of building an eye is particularly pointed: “…the quicktank is given a job most of us [...]

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Ikea Expands Electronics Offerings With Bizarre New Camera

Those In Need Of An Extremely Light, Extremely Thin Camera Will Want To Check Out Ikea, Who's Just Unveiled A Real Winner
By on Wednesday, 25. April 2012

Ikea, of late, has developed an interesting new direction. Apparently no longer content to bring out simple, inexpensive furniture that you assemble yourself with the aid of mostly Allen wrenches, they’ve recently made a move into more electronic-based fare with the launch of a table that could contain a fully [...]

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iPhoto '12 Said To Be Coming This Summer

iPhoto '12 May Be Arriving This Summer, Bringing Some iOS-Specific Features To The Mac As Well
By on Tuesday, 24. April 2012

There’s some exciting news for those of you Mac users out there who like iPhoto, but would like to see it operate a bit more like its iOS equivalent. iPhoto ’12 may be making its way to Macs this summer, and when it does, it might be bringing along some [...]

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