Cameras & Camcorders Category

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]