Filed under: Digital Cameras, Robots
Remember that GigaPan camera system from earlier this year? The one that made taking ridiculously large panoramic shots — like the one of Dublin Castle above — a lesson in simplicity? Yeah, well that very system is now being used to add detailed, wide-angle images to Google Earth thanks to collaboration […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
We’ve already seen Sony’s first shameless attempt to court the YouTube crowd with the NSC-GC1 5 megapixel web-corder, but a quick look through the instruction manual reveals specs for another model, the NSC-GC3, which apparently cuts shooting time down from 2 hours to just 29 minutes. We’re not certain if that’s because […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Canon’s PowerShot SD870 (also known as the IXUS 860 IS in some parts of the world) isn’t exactly the sort of camera that offers a lot of surprises, but the folks at PhotographyBLOG decided to check it out nonetheless, and they apparently found quite a bit to like about it. Calling it […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Displays, Home Entertainment, Household, Portable Audio
DigitalLife is all about the tweens today, and Nickelodeon isn’t about to be left out in the cold — the venerable network has paired up with Imation to release an array of brightly-colored gear for the budding young geek. In addition to a line of pretty-decent […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
At under $200, Pure Digital’s recently announced Flip Video camcorders are already pretty inexpensive, but the company now looks to be trying to make them even cheaper for non-profit organizations — as in free. That’s the goal of the company’s just announced Flip Video Spotlight program, which aims to give up to […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Sanyo’s back with another Xacti solid state camcorder with this, their DMX-HD700. That’s “HD” as in high-def, “7″ as in 720p instead of the 1080p recording action found in their DMX-HD1000. On sale starting October 19th, the “world’s smallest and lightest 720p” camcorder records MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 video and 7.1 megapixel stills to […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras
Nikon doesn’t look to have gone very far to find a new President and CEO for its Nikon Inc. subsidiary, with the company announcing today that Yasuyuki Okamoto, a 29-year veteran of the company, will be stepping into both roles. That still leaves Michio Kariya as the top boss of parent-company […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Laptops
If you’ve coughed up ~two grand for one of FlipStart Labs’ tiny clamshell PCs, we’ll wager that you’ve already got a pretty decent compact digicam in your arsenal, but in case you’ve been cursed — as many us have — with convergencitis, you can now pick up an accessory that turns […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Misc. Gadgets
We’ve seen ways in which quite a few marketers earned their bonus, but the bright lad (or dame) who dreamed this one up deserves a serious promotion. In what’s likely to be confirmed as the “world’s smallest questionnaire,” Olympus sent out slides with questions to valued high-end microscope customers in […]
Filed under: Digital Cameras, Portable Video
Toshiba just announced their gigashot A and K series of video recorders in Japan. The A100F brings a shock-mounted, 1.8-inch 100GB disk with 1/3-inch CMOS sensor 2 megapixel stills or 1,920 x 1,080 recordings at 60fps with 16bit/48kHz Dolby digital stereo audio at a 384kbps bit rate. That equates to […]