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Cameras and Imaging
Wingscapes BirdCam keeps an eye on wildlife
By Emily Clark
23:38 June 15, 2008 PDT
Backyard birdwatchers will love this wildlife spy-cam from Wingscapes. The motion-activated BirdCam is designed to capture video and digital photos of birds and small animals while you’re not around to see them. Read More
Eye-Fi wireless SD memory card range
20:13 June 15, 2008 PDT
The makers of the world’s first wireless SD memory card for digital cameras have complemented the original offering with two additional devices tailored to meet specific user needs. The original Eye-Fi (now called Eye-Fi Share) is joined by the Eye-Fi Explore, which adds geographic location tags to each photo, and the Eye-Fi Home, which is aimed specifically at home users. Read More
OpticPro A360 large-format scanner
By Emily Clark
02:43 June 13, 2008 PDT
Plustek's new OpticPro A360 is a large-format scanner designed to combine ease of use and advanced networking capabilities with the ability to scan an A3 page in just 2.4 seconds (color at 300 dpi). Read More
Holografica's 3-D, goggle-free display
By Kyle Sherer
20:42 June 9, 2008 PDT
Holografica's HoloVizio technology provides multiple viewers with a three-dimensional display that naturally changes as people shift their perspective. The technology is being researched by the 3.7 million EU-funded Coherent Project, which aims to provide a networked holographic audio-visual platform to support real-time collaborative 3D interaction between geographically distributed teams. Read More
Canon SELPHY CP770 portable printer
By Darren Quick
18:09 June 3, 2008 PDT
June 4, 2008 For happy snappers who want those photos printed NOW, Canon's compact SELPHY CP770 features a bucket-like carrier basket to store the paper and ink, along with a power cord, while the optional battery makes the printer completely portable so that photos can be printed anywhere. Read More
Pentax Optio V20 tackles blinking subjects
By Mike Hanlon
03:58 May 23, 2008 PDT
PENTAX’s new US$300 Optio V20 is designed to help overcome one of happysnapping’s greatest problems – blinking subjects. The 'Digital Shake Reduction' reaches new levels too, and compensates not just for the snappers shaking hands, but moving subjects too, and if your hands are shaking when you play back the images it will compensate for those movements too. Read More
Portable Printstik printer
By Emily Clark
01:33 May 22, 2008 PDT
Planon, maker of the DocuPen ultra-portable color scanner, has released a highly portable 1" x 10.75" x 1.9"printer designed for use with smart phones and other Bluetooth enabled devices. The “Printstik” holds a cartridge roll of 20 pages of paper and can print up to three pages per minute. Read More
QPC Lasers demonstrates ultra-compact portable projector technology
By Darren Quick
19:40 May 18, 2008 PDT
May 19, 2008 The miniaturization of technology has brought unprecedented portability to increasingly powerful mobile devices such as PDAs and mobile phones, but the trade off has been the corresponding reduction in screen sizes to an often impractical level. One solution is miniature projectors which let users carry the equivalent of a big screen TV in their pocket. High power semiconductor laser designer and manufacturer QPC Lasers, Inc. is hosting private demonstrations of their high power miniature prototype BrightLase Red-Green-Blue “RGB” laser, which is designed for high resolution miniature projectors in the 100 lumens output region for portable handheld consumer electronics. Read More
Straight from Q's laboratory - the Snakehead aerial camera
By Kyle Sherer
19:26 May 18, 2008 PDT
SpaceCam Systems' "Snakehead" is a plane-mounted, gyroscopically stabilized, fully-articulated high-resolution movie camera that allows pilots to fly as aggressively while preserving a stable shot. Read More
Bioscrypt unveils new VisionAccess face reader
By Kyle Sherer
18:08 May 18, 2008 PDT
May 19, 2008 Bioscrypt has launched its next generation VisionAccess 3D face reader. Using the entire facial surface structure of a person’s face, the reader can authenticate users in less than one second, even in complete darkness. Read More
HP and DreamWorks preview billion color display technology
19:29 May 13, 2008 PDT
May 14, 2008 HP and DreamWorks Animation have joined forces to develop the industry’s first combination of true 30-bit color – enabling a range of 1 billion colors – in an LED-backlit LCD. Designed to address the problem of consistent color accuracy between devices, without the costs associated with studio-quality LCD displays, the HP DreamColor Technology computer display promises accurate, predictable color and a simple color management process to assure vision-to-production color consistency. Read More
New low cost HD camcorder from DXG USA
By Darren Quick
17:54 April 29, 2008 PDT
April 29, 2008 Joining DXG USA’s previously reviewed DXG-566V low cost HD camcorder is the new, almost equally low priced DXG-569V HD. Like its stable mate the DXG-569V HD sports a 5 Megapixel CMOS sensor with still images interpolated up to 8 Megapixel resolution, records HD video up to 1280 x 720 in H.264, MOV file format at 30fps but changes the form factor to an slim, vertical design. In addition, the DXG-569V HD also features a digital voice recorder and it can also can be used as a mass storage device by connecting it to a PC via USB2.0 to copy and back-up files from the computer to the camcorder’s SD Card. Read More
Portable memories: Kaiser Baas Digital Photo Key Ring
By Emily Clark
01:25 April 24, 2008 PDT
Digital photo frames are hot stuff among consumers at the moment and from Kaiser Baas comes this handy 1.5 inch Digital Photo Key Ring - a mini digital photo frame that lets you can take your memories with you wherever you go. Read More
Canon PIXMA iP100 high resolution mobile printer
By Emily Clark
23:53 April 14, 2008 PDT
April 15, 2008 The new PIXMA iP100 Mobile Printer from Canon promises a compact, high-resolution color printing solution for those on the go with the ability to cater for direct from camera, Bluetooth or in-car printing. Read More
World’s smallest hi-def camera head from Toshiba
By Emily Clark
23:33 April 6, 2008 PDT
Toshiba Imaging has launched the world’s smallest HD camera head, measuring just 1.6 inches and weighing only 2.3 oz. It is envisaged that the mini IK-HD1 will be used for scientific imaging and diagnostics, specialty broadcasting, homeland security, and industrial video and inspection applications. Read More
Pandigital announces touch-controlled digital photo frames
22:58 April 2, 2008 PDT
April 3, 2008 Pandigital's new line of Wi-Fi equipped digital photo frames feature a touch-operation interface that allows users to tap or swipe icons for access to digital photos, MP3 music or video clips and incorporates a patent pending "page turn" effect, which mimics the effect of a photo album being turned. The obvious question - who wants fingerprints all over their holiday snaps? Luckily the designers have this one covered - touch-operation is via a fingerprint resistant matting that surrounds the viewable area leaving images smudge free. The new PanTouch® line has three models ranging in size from 7-inch to 10.4-inch with on-board memory from 128MB to 512MB respectively. Read More
Wide-angle camera improves security surveillance
By Emily Clark
21:38 March 30, 2008 PDT
Researchers at the University of Alabama (UAH) have developed a wide-angle camera that will assist security forces by enabling them to monitor large areas through high-resolution images taken from a satellite or an airborne craft. The proposed one giga-pixel camera was created after UAH researcher, David Pollock, discovered that if you point a large number of lenses toward a common point, and then make a small correction on each of the lenses, you have a camera with capabilities that far surpass existing technologies. Read More
Plustek updates line of OpticFilm slide scanners
By Kyle Sherer
18:27 March 27, 2008 PDT
March 28, 2008 Available this April, Plustek’s new range of OpticFilm professional-grade scanners convert slides into high quality, 48-bit color digital images at a whopping 7200x7200 dpi resolution. Read More
Planon DocuPen RC800 ultra-portable color scanner
By Emily Clark
17:31 March 27, 2008 PDT
March 28, 2008 Planon Systems Solutions has released a slimline hand-held color scanning device that promises a fast and convenient means of digitally capturing full-page documents on the go, with enough memory to store hundreds of pages of text, photos and graphics. Read More
Flip video cam takes 13% market share
By Mike Hanlon
00:13 March 25, 2008 PDT
March 24, 2008 David Pogue of the New York Times has written a very positive review of Pure Digital’s Flip video camera which we previewed here. Pogue points out that in the twelve months since it was released, the simple no-frills but functional camera has garnered 13 % of the video camera marke, making it one of the biggest digital trends of 2007. Read More
Asterbot automated in-video tagging set for launch
By Emily Clark
18:13 March 13, 2008 PDT
March 14, 2008 Asterpix has released new technology that automatically tags any internet video with interactive hotspots allowing users to see notes, links to more information and other videos on related topics. The new system build on the company's web-based service that enabled users to create interactive videos - with Asterbot, the work is done for you. Read More
ThruVision's T5000 security system sees through clothing
By Kyle Sherer
17:28 March 11, 2008 PDT
March 12, 2008 ThruVision’s T5000 Security Imaging System uses passive terahertz imaging technology to reveal concealed weapons in both stationary and mobile subjects - even outdoors - at a range of up to 25 meters. T-rays can pass through clothing, paper, cardboard, wood, masonry, fog and clouds, but bounce off metal, liquid, and some ceramics and plastics – this allows the T5000 to easily identify weapons even in a moving crowd of people. Read More
Olympus reveal E-420: the world's smallest interchangeable lens digital SLR
By Kyle Sherer
18:06 March 5, 2008 PST
March 6, 2008 Olympus has again claimed the mantle of the world’s thinnest, smallest interchangeable lens digital SLR camera with the announcement of the E-420. The camera is scheduled to be released in May this year, and is the successor to the E-410 digital SLR released last April. Read More
Olympus Stylus 7x optical zoom digital compact camera
18:19 February 29, 2008 PST
March 1, 2008 Olympus has crammed a 7 X optical zoom lens into an ultra-compact body in the latest addition to the Stylus (or "Mju"depending on where you are in the world) line of digital cameras. Read More
GE’s 2008 digital camera line-up
By Darren Quick
22:23 February 24, 2008 PST
February 25, 2008 General Imaging, the worldwide exclusive licensee for GE digital cameras, has rolled out the next generation of GE digital cameras for 2008. The nine all-new models unveiled at the 2008 PMA trade show in Las Vegas brings the total number of cameras in the GE-branded digital camera line to 15. Features from last years models such as panorama stitching, face detection and in-camera red-eye removal will be combined with an assortment of additional features, including smile detection, blink detection, upgraded lenses, and LCD screens that adjust to changes in ambient light – all packed into slimmer camera bodies. One new model, the E1050, also adds HDTV playback, touch-screen and GPS capability. Read More
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