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Just before the dawn of disco and the first Star Wars movie, the digital camera first saw the light of day. But this 1975 blunderbuss wasn’t anything like today’s palm-sized baubles, no sir. This clunker from Kodak was the...
POSTED Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Canon announced its newest entry-level DSLR, the Canon Rebel XSi in January, but reviewers have just gotten to put it to the test over the past couple of weeks. Their overall impressions have been similar to those in most...
POSTED Sunday, April 20, 2008
When we think of 35mm film, we remember the soft and fuzzy days of our youth. Maybe that's why this faux-fur covered model makes so much sense to us. The Colorsplash FurCam has a little more flexibility than your...
POSTED Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Today Nikon introduced the P80, a new and larger addition to its line of Coolpix point and shoot cameras. The company is calling the P80 the "most compact super-telephoto camera" on the market, compared to other models out there...
POSTED Thursday, April 10, 2008
Just when everyone thought the game of catch was one of the most exhilarating sports around, a company comes around and kicks it up a notch. The Tospom is a device that adds a new twist — it includes...
POSTED Monday, April 7, 2008
We knew HDTV cameras were getting small, but had no idea they could be shrunk to a size scarcely larger than a sugar cube. That’s about the dimensions of a tiny camera Toshiba will roll out this month at...
POSTED Friday, April 4, 2008
Now cheap lensmaker Vivitar joins the likes of Canon and Sanyo in the tiny HD camcorder derby with its DVR565HD, recording 720p on a minuscule SD flash memory card. Adding to the fun is a relatively huge 3-inch viewscreen,...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
So you already have your $1 image stabilizer, but how about a fish eye lens on the cheap? Professional fish eye or wide-angle lenses cost more than $500, but this little hack can bring the fun of fish eye...
POSTED Friday, March 28, 2008
Are you absolutely hilarious? Are you, like, the funniest person you know? Well then I bet you'll just love the Stunning Camera. This brilliant mod allows you to make any standard disposable camera into a shocker by routing the...
POSTED Thursday, March 20, 2008
I'm no expert on cameras, but I do know one thing is true: if one thing is good, three things is clearly much better. That must be the reasoning behind the 3D World 120 Tr-Lens Stereoscopic camera, a three-lensed beast...
POSTED Tuesday, March 18, 2008
The sudden popularity of digital photo frames has turned them into love-it-or-hate-it devices. The dichotomy goes like this: Tech-savvy folks tend to dislike them (sometimes intensely), while most others are fascinated by the technology, if statistics are to be...
POSTED Thursday, March 13, 2008
Last year around this time Olympus introduced the E-410, the world's smallest and lightest DSLR. Today, the company debuts its replacement, the E-420, an updated version that can still make that claim. The light and compact E-420 features a...
POSTED Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Sometimes, when you're sneaking around and trying to figure out what's going inside a locked room, you need more than a cup to hold up to the door to try to listen in. You need to see the action. Unless...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Manfrotto is no stranger to tripods and other unique types of digital camera accessories. The latest product to grace the Manfrotto line is the carbon fiber line of tripods. Sure, on paper a tripod sounds pretty ordinary, but take...
POSTED Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Sony put on a big bash in Las Vegas this week, showing off its latest wares in its Annual Product Showcase, and we were there, snooping around just for you. The company was strutting around like a barnyard rooster,...
POSTED Thursday, February 28, 2008
Now you can dock with the Space Station without even leaving your desk. This one's even cleaner-looking than that hodgepodge of glorified tin cans floating in low Earth orbit, and it actually has a purpose. Imagine that spaghetti bowl...
POSTED Thursday, February 21, 2008
Just last year we were touted the benefits of getting your loved one an old-fashioned Polaroid camera for Valentines Day. After all, the cameras only cost $30, and they're so much fun. Today, those same cameras cost $140— scarcity...
POSTED Sunday, February 17, 2008
Want to exponentially improve your video shooting or still photography way beyond that of mere amateurs? Here's the key word: stabilize. You could hold that camera rock-steady with a $5800 Steadicam system, or you could schlep around a cumbersome...
POSTED Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Megapixels are so over. They've lost their marketing mojo. Now that sensors have stopped growing exponentially in terms of megapixels, new cameras don't even bother advertising their size. But we're cool with that, since it lets other camera technologies...
POSTED Friday, February 1, 2008
Image3D has been offering custom Viewmaster-like slides to the corporate set for years, but the company is now reaching out to the consumer market. If you want to get a taste of childhood nostalgia while looking at your vacation...
POSTED Friday, February 1, 2008
While prowling the show floor of photo convention PMA 2008 in Las Vegas today, we spotted this Delkin (not to be confused with Belkin) ImageRouter, a four-slot CompactFlash card reader and powered one-port USB hub. For $250, it lets...
POSTED Thursday, January 31, 2008
Panasonic rolled out numerous point-and-shoot digital cameras today, and we think this TZ5 is the best of the lot. Sure, it's a capable camera with all the right numbers including a 10x optical zoom, 28mm wide-angle lens, 3-inch viewscreen...
POSTED Tuesday, January 29, 2008
There are a metric ton of digital cameras out there, but practically none of them deviate from the standard formula. They're all basically the same, save some slight adjustment in specs and maybe a couple negligible features. Not so with...
POSTED Friday, January 25, 2008
It's day two in our impromptu oversized gadgets series. Today we pay a trip to Canon to take a look at one hell of a gigantic lens. Blowing by the previous largest telephoto lens by 200mm is this 800mm...
POSTED Thursday, January 24, 2008
Pentax announced a whole new line of cameras and lenses today, including two new SLRs, the K20D and the K200D, which will replace the K10D and K100D respectively. The company is pushing hard to be a top competitor with...
POSTED Wednesday, January 23, 2008
This morning Olympus announced a slew of camera updates for spring, including some updates to its waterproof line and to its smallest pocket cameras. We thought the most interesting addition was to its SP line: the new SP-570 is...
POSTED Tuesday, January 22, 2008
I love the idea of geotagging photos — embedding GPS data into your pictures so you know the exact location where the image was taken. ATP has introduced the Photo Finder to make the process easier without needing to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 16, 2008
The Manfrotto 797 Modo Pocket camera mount is so compact it'll fit in your pocket, up your sleeve, on a keychain or in you bag, allowing you to lay down some steady photography wherever you like. The Modo Pocket...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Have you ever come back from vacation and looked at your pictures and couldn’t remember where you took them? No? OK me neither, but Pharos thinks there's a market for a GPS gadget that will remember exactly where you...
POSTED Friday, January 11, 2008
Any pro photographer will tell you that getting a photo of a product or other small object from the right angle can make all the difference in the world in the presentation. Getting the perfect shot has just gotten...
POSTED Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Hiding in shadows or using darkness for concealment won’t do any good — not from the FLIR digital video cameras, which use heat rather than light to see in the dark. These cameras, which are based on the same...
POSTED Monday, January 7, 2008
To commemorate its 50th year in business, Casio is coming on strong with what it calls the "third generation" of digital cameras. This year Casio will be introducing five new models, including four point-and-shoot cameras as well as a...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
Going hand in hand with its new HD camcorders and displays with SD card slots for HD-movie playback, Panasonic's new 32GB offering had enough space to store 8 hours of standard HD content, or 5.5 hours of full HD...
POSTED Sunday, January 6, 2008
If you were impressed with the 15-inch digital photo frame, be prepared to be mesmerized by the 32-inch version. Taking the title as the largest digital photo frame to date, the SP3200 from Smartpants will debut at CES 2008...
POSTED Friday, January 4, 2008
I've always been a sucker for anything stainless steel, so I am pretty giddy seeing Micro's Stainless Steel Camcorder. Not only does this cam look great on the outside, but it also shoots DVD-quality footage. It can record upwards...
POSTED Saturday, December 22, 2007
As digital picture frames move beyond mere autonomous devices and onto the Web, they become easier to use and more interactive. Here's an example of that, Ality's updated Wireless Pixxa frame, which lets you send and receive pictures to...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Raise your hand if you had a View-Master as a kid. How cool was it to see your favorite characters and stories in what appeared to be a 3D world? The Loreo 3D Lens in a Cap allows you...
POSTED Friday, December 21, 2007
Underwater photography is fun, allowing you to take pictures of fish, coral, and people in bathing suits who are unaware that they're being photographed. The problem is, however, that it's tough to look through a viewfinder underwater, and you're...
POSTED Thursday, December 20, 2007
Cops have had a way to record their every move from the driver's perspective for a long time now, and now it's time for the rest of us to keep track of all of our driving antics for posterity....
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
Hey SanDisk, I have some beef with you! This SanDisk Photo Album is only going to make my holiday experience that much more painful. Let me set the scene — it's Christmas day, everyone is sitting around talking, that...
POSTED Monday, December 17, 2007
So you are keeping tabs on that special someone at work, at home and even in the bathroom, but what about in public? Putting on sunglasses and trekking out with a camera is still too obvious. That's where this...
POSTED Sunday, December 16, 2007
Sony's showing off a prototype camera they've designed dubbed the "Twirl n Take." It's unique because it's rechargeable by winding a crank on the camera's body. Simply wind it up for 15 seconds to give it enough juice to...
POSTED Thursday, December 13, 2007
A research group run by Microsoft in Cambridge, England, has developed a digital camera called the SenseCam for Alzheimer's and dementia patients. It hangs around the patient's neck and takes wide-angle lens pictures that capture most of what the...
POSTED Tuesday, December 11, 2007
It's a well-established fact that lighting is the most important ingredient in producing great photos. Ortery's Photosimile 5000 is a PC-controlled light box, 360° turntable and a camera-positioning system that works with many digital cameras. The Photobox makes shadow-free...
POSTED Monday, December 10, 2007
The Zigview S2 Digital Viewfinder is detachable, so you can set up your camera and still know what you're about to take a picture of while hiding in the bushes. The distance you can remotely activate your camera's shutter...
POSTED Wednesday, December 5, 2007
You may have heard that camera, cellphone and technology in general in Japan is quite a few years ahead of our own. Want some more proof? Look at this Hello Kitty camera, by Sanrio: it blushes when you take...
POSTED Tuesday, December 4, 2007
If you're going to be the next investigative reporter superstar, you're going to need some kind of undercover spy device to get the job done. Enter the Wireless Spy Camera from Chinavision. It looks like a regular pen, but...
POSTED Monday, December 3, 2007
There are plenty of spy cameras out there designed for total perverts and pretty much no one else, but this one doesn't seem like it'll appeal to either boobie-lovin' pervs or serious spies. That's because it's stuck inside a hair...
POSTED Tuesday, November 27, 2007
The powerful technology found behind the lens of Nikon's flagship D3 DSLR is the culmination of over a decade of work. The camera packs a punch with a 12.1 megapixel sensor, which can shoot at 36 by 23.9 mm...
POSTED Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Every once in a while a new technology comes along that's impossible not to love, though it has many serious drawbacks. The Eye-Fi wireless SD card that hit stores this week falls into that category. The card sends images...
POSTED Sunday, November 4, 2007
This is a waterproof wrist camera. It straps to your wrist, captures 56 minutes of video with sound at a paltry 512x384 resolution as well as stills. And, as you can see, it's waterproof. OK, in what situation would this...
POSTED Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Let's face it: Uploading photos is a hassle. If you're at all like me, your digital pics reside in your camera for weeks, if not months, before you get around to putting them on Flickr or Snapfish or Facebook...
POSTED Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Like every other camera manufacturer, Sony has announced a new digital point and shoot to ship just in time for Christmas. Unlike other cameras that are just slightly tweaked and "improved," Sony's Cyber-shot DSC-T2 threatens to change the point...
POSTED Wednesday, October 24, 2007
The Mio DigiWalker C720t is a touchscreen handheld GPS that will show you a map of where you are on its respectable 4.3 inch widescreen — providing you're somewhere in North America. It does everything a good GPS should,...
POSTED Saturday, September 29, 2007
So you ditched your old point-and-shoot and upgraded to a fancy DSLR, did you? And now you think you're some sort of photography expert. Well, let me tell you something, pal: your camera has still got nothing on real...
POSTED Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Meet Triops, the work of German designer Franziska Faoro. This Rolly-shaped device is actually a panoramic digital camera. Triops can take pictures normally, but the real action happens when you throw it though the air. That's when the durable...
POSTED Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Casio's been showing off a slick new camera prototype that can shoot a whopping 60 frames per second at 6 megapixels. Not fast enough for you? Well, it can also shoot a whopping 300 frames per second at VGA quality....
POSTED Monday, September 3, 2007
Panasonic, together with a British design firm, has come up with a cameraphone accessory that's designed to make it super-simple to upload photos to a social-networking site like MySpace. The idea is you would slip your cell phone into...
POSTED Thursday, August 23, 2007
Do you drop your camera a lot? In water? Maybe you often take it into thunderstorms? Dust storms? Ice storms? Iraq? Olympus has the camera for you, danger man. The Stylus 790 SW point-and-shoot is said to be resistant...
POSTED Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sony's new Cybershot digital cameras have a feature that you probably won't find on any other models: a smile detector. Yes, there's software built in that can tell when your subjects are smiling and will take the photo at...
POSTED Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Canon has just announced its new flagship prosumer DSLR camera: a 10.1-megapixel behemoth known as the 40D. It has a 3-inch LCD display, can shoot 6.5 frames per second, and has the EOS Integrated Cleaning System that vibrates dust...
POSTED Monday, August 20, 2007
Getting a nice panoramic photo, especially a 360-degree panorama, can be tough. You have to try to eyeball it, holding the camera steady while you spin around, and then you need to have the skills to adequately stitch the...
POSTED Friday, August 10, 2007
Back in the old days, only the top pro photographers carried around a Rolleiflex 2.8F, the paparazzi-favorite twin-lens reflex camera that was originally created in Germany in 1929. Now Rollei has turned that classic design into a tiny palm-sized...
POSTED Wednesday, August 8, 2007
The Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd camera, styled like a digital SLR model, boasts such a complete suite of features that film buffs might be swayed to keep their rolls in the fridge — if only for a little while. The...
POSTED Thursday, July 26, 2007
Digital cameras can see a broader spectrum of colors than we can. Kameraflage is a technology that takes advantage of their superior vision by printing or projecting messages and images that can only be seen through a digital camera...
POSTED Thursday, July 26, 2007
Mobile YouTube is all the rage these days, what with it coming to the iPhone and LG launching a YouTube enabled phone in the near future. It seems that people want to make it as easy as possible to...
POSTED Tuesday, July 10, 2007
If you've ever tried to take a photo of something moving really quickly with a digital camera, you know that you're likely to just end up with a blurry, useless picture rather than the still-captured masterpiece that you were going...
POSTED Thursday, June 28, 2007
Ever have that feeling that you're being watched? Maybe you are, and maybe you can do something about it. Check that — you can definitely do something about it with this 3-GHz wireless camera detector. About the size of...
POSTED Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Kodak claims to have developed a new camera sensor that will make the flash a thing of the past. By hopping up the sensor's sensitivity to light, cameras will be able to pick up much more detail in low-light...
POSTED Thursday, June 14, 2007
You may be wondering how Google took all those millions of photos to get street-level views for its online Google Maps. The 360-degree shots were captured by Immersive Media, an innovative company that's been capturing views like this since...
POSTED Thursday, May 31, 2007
RCA's new EZ201 Small Wonder is an update to the Small Wonder that I reviewed last year. Featuring a flip-out display, loading dock, and expandable SD memory, it's certainly an improvement over the original, while still retaining the simplicity...
POSTED Thursday, May 3, 2007
This giant locket is more than a huge piece of bling — it hides a pretty slick piece of technology inside. It's a Kodak 1881 digital camera, and if you open it up you'll see two LCD screens that...
POSTED Friday, April 20, 2007
Tiny spy cameras are great and everything, but generally speaking you end up sacrificing quality for size. Tiny cameras just can't compete with the big boys. Or at least most of them can't — this Iconix HD camera is...
POSTED Monday, April 16, 2007
Did you guys hear that by the year 2000 we'll be able to take 3D pictures? Yeah, I know, the future is going to be so crazy! I mean, just take a look at these sweet StereoVision VuCAM Binoculars....
POSTED Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Good news, perverts: cameras are getting smaller by the day. When at one point if you wanted a camera hidden in your hat you had to pretend to be a cowboy or a Sikh, now you can hide a...
POSTED Thursday, April 5, 2007
A retro look, 10 megapixels, options aplenty — what's not to love about Ricoh's Caplio GX100? Despite the old-school aesthetics, it's a very modern 1 inch thick and sports a 2.5-inch LCD around back. Given all the optional accessories,...
POSTED Wednesday, March 28, 2007
From the depths of China comes a monster camera: 3D World's TL120-1. This tri-lens camera shoots medium-format film with stereoscopic imaging in mind. The two lower lenses take in information simultaneously resulting in two near-identical images. When these images...
POSTED Wednesday, March 14, 2007
When you take lots of high quality pictures, it often takes a long time to transfer them over to your backup device. Multiple gigs of data is nothing to scoff at, after all. That doesn't mean, however, that you...
POSTED Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Wi-Fi, DLNA, and MPEG-4: OMG! This 6-megapixel point-and-shoot is filled with a tight bundle of extra goodies for those looking for a little something something from a digital camera. This baby comes with the ability to wirelessly send photos,...
POSTED Monday, March 12, 2007
The Wonderful Shot is a pretty crappy 0.35-megapixel digital camera from Japan. What makes it noteworthy, you ask? Well, it's not designed for people like you and I, but rather for our canine companions. It's a doggy digital camera,...
POSTED Thursday, March 8, 2007
Only four short months after Nikon introduced the D40, they're ready to roll out its big brother. The D40x has a few small modifications, but one really stands out: the 10.2-megapixel CCD sensor (the D40's was 6 megapixels). With...
POSTED Wednesday, March 7, 2007
In this corner, weighing in at only 13 ounces (think three 30-GB iPods), the Olympus EVOLT E-410 is a lightweight champion. Slimmer than the Nikon D40, this little guy packs quite the punch with a large 10-megapixel sensor. That...
POSTED Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Wouldn't you love to be able to walk into your living room and wirelessly transfer photos from your cell phone or digital camera right to your TV? If certain people (Dad!) are impatient about showing off those family vacation photos...
POSTED Tuesday, February 27, 2007
If you're looking for an extremely compact digital camera that can still pack a punch, look no farther than the CoolPix P5000 from Nikon. With a 10-megapixel CCD sensor, a high ISO of 3200, and 3.5x optical zoom, this...
POSTED Monday, February 26, 2007
Just the other week my cousin turned 11 and, feeling obligated, I decided to go to his party. My companion: Nikon's D40 digital SLR (DSLR) camera, ready to capture the festivities in captured 6.1-megapixel moments. Slinging the Nikon over...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
Hot on the heels of the company's HV20 high-def camcorder comes Canon's PowerShot TX1, a mini cam that captures HD footage to SD cards, doing away with that tape nonsense (and about time, too). Your video gets the HD...
POSTED Thursday, February 22, 2007
GE has decided to get into the digital camera game, by living vicariously through its partner, General Imaging. I'm sure Sony, HP, Canon, Casio, and the other boys are waiting with baited breath to say hello. Actually, there's probably...
POSTED Monday, February 19, 2007
Change is in the air, and I'm not talking about the still far-off season of spring. I'm talking about improvements in cameraphone optics, which have been fast and furious recently. Varioptic, a Chinese technology firm, has engineered a cameraphone lens...
POSTED Friday, February 16, 2007
We're racking our brains trying to imagine a legitimate scenario where this LukWerks Spy Camera hidden inside a clock might be used. Maybe you want to keep an eye on that questionable — or perhaps comely — babysitter you...
POSTED Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Ricoh just came out with its first GPS-ready digital camera, the 8-megapixel 500SE. Overall, the camera's features match those of last year's 500G, with a 2.5-inch LCD and waterproof/shockproof body. The 500SE comes with a detachable GPS module, but...
POSTED Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Do your vacation snapshots of the Midwest annoy you because they don't live up to your high photographic standards? Feel like your pictures of the Grand Canyon don't give you enough of the view? Next vacation, you could lock...
POSTED Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Recently we've seen some pretty amazing and innovative gadgets from Samsung. Remember those incredibly skinny phones, the 10-megapixel phone, and the i70 camera with HSPDA? Well the gadget flow doesn't stop there. The i7 is Samsung's new digital camera...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Remember Polaroid? They make those cool cameras that give you a printout of your photo immediately. Yeah, they haven't done too much since digital cameras have become all the rage, but that doesn't mean they haven't been working on...
POSTED Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Budding celebrity paparazzi on the cheap, I'd like you to meet the Olympus SP-550 UZ. While it's certainly not the most covert camera we've looked at, stealth is no longer an issue, as the 7-megapixel model has built-in 18x...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
Made up of millions of photodetectors, the sensors in today's digital cameras don't come cheap, and they don't go easy on the juice either. At Rice University in Houston, Texas, developers are determined to make a single-pixel camera that...
POSTED Monday, January 29, 2007
When you're taking big pictures with a decent camera, even large SD cards can fill up quick. What if you're on vacation for a week and don't have access to your computer to dump your shots on? You don't...
POSTED Friday, January 26, 2007
I'd like to introduce the Samsung VLUU i70, a sexy 7.2-megapixel camera with a lot going on inside the slick casing. As point-and-shoots go, this camera has fairly familiar features, with 3x optical zoom, a 3-inch LCD screen, face...
POSTED Thursday, January 25, 2007
Peter Parker is a photographer, and Spider-Man shoots webs from his wrist. What if we were to combine their abilities? Could we fashion a tiny camera that attaches to your forearm like a web shooter? Allow me introduce you to...
POSTED Thursday, January 18, 2007
DSLRs are amazing cameras and provide photographers with great quality shots, especially when compared to standard point-and-shoots. However, with the increase in quality there's a decrease in convenient features. DSLRs are rather bulky and don't let you use the LCD...
POSTED Monday, January 15, 2007
You might not be the most colorful character, but that doesn't mean your camera needs to be boring. Kodak's EasyShare V803 (8 megapixels, $200) and V1000 (10 megapixels, $250) come in a variety of hues designed to make the...
POSTED Friday, January 12, 2007
Here it is: hot slick gadget No. 1 from CES Unveiled. Celestron, maker of last year's notable SkyScout, this year brings us the VistaPix IS70, a digital spotting scope with a camera built in. The scope has a powerful...
POSTED Saturday, January 6, 2007
Citizens, have no fear — Fujifilm's FinePix IS-1 is on the case! Crime bosses across the globe hiding in the dark will no longer be safe thanks to this digital camera that can capture both normal images and ones...
POSTED Friday, January 5, 2007
This isn't the first time we've spotted some cool underwater gear for cameras, and it won't be the last. For us in the present, Sea & Sea brings us specialized housings for many of the Nikon and Canon digital...
POSTED Friday, December 29, 2006
These 6X zoom lenses from the Brando Workshop dwarf the tiny cell phones they were made for. The resulting look is something like a contemporary (and squished) version of an 8mm movie camera. Made to fit specific Nokia (N70,...
POSTED Thursday, December 21, 2006
SanDisk and Sony are working on a Memory Stick Pro-HG format that puts the old Memory Stick Pro format to shame. Yes, the "HG" actually means something: the new Sticks are designed to provide high-speed continuous writing (up to...
POSTED Friday, December 15, 2006
The future isn't all flying cars and hotshot microwaves. In fact, I think I may have stumbled across something exciting and practical: charge-by-contact plates. Though companies like Splashpower have been at this game longer, WildCharge plans to push things...
POSTED Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Can you ever get enough pictures of yourself? Seriously — sometimes your arm just isn't long enough to get you in the frame next to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. That's where the QuikPod comes in, a lightweight extendable...
POSTED Thursday, December 7, 2006
Gadgets in the wilderness are on borrowed time. Those batteries will run out at some point, and with no power outlets nearby, you're boned, right? Not so with the SolarPort 4.4, a videotape-size solar panel that'll juice up your...
POSTED Thursday, December 7, 2006
Sharp Japan has shown off a new 5-megapixel CCD camera module for mobile phones. By the numbers, it is no match for Samsung's 10-megapixel camera phone, even if the megapixel myth has been debunked. The LZ0P3770, as close friends...
POSTED Thursday, November 30, 2006
Last week, while most of us were lost in preparations for Thanksgiving, David Pogue, tech guru for The New York Times, ventured into the streets of New York City to find out once and for all whether or not...
POSTED Tuesday, November 28, 2006
There's no need to head back to home base for prints of your digital pics when you've got Fujifilm's palm-size Pivi MP-300 printer. Measuring about 6 inches long and weighing in at 8 ounces, the Pivi is like an...
POSTED Sunday, November 26, 2006
As we all know, the age-old function of the backpack is to transport stuff with ease while keeping our hands free. Think Tank has gone a step further with its brand new rotation360, a backpack designed for the ultra-nerdy...
POSTED Thursday, November 23, 2006
Last week Nikon announced the most recent addition to its lineup of digital SLR cameras, the distinctive D40. Now normally I don't do this but I just want to put it out there before I go any further: it's only...
POSTED Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Detectives across the land are joining hands and celebrating the arrival of the Aven's iLoupe, a portable digital microscope and camera in one. However, it's not just a bunch of investigators having all the fun this time — the...
POSTED Thursday, November 16, 2006
Enthusiasts of underwater photography will be pleased to hear that Sea & Sea has a new product on deck. Measuring just an inch deep, the slender 860G digital camera is the latest in the company's line of entry-level cameras...
POSTED Wednesday, November 8, 2006
If you like photographing things from afar with the subject unaware, say hello to your new best friend. A telescope with a built-in 3.1-megapixel camera, it's designed for the wildlife enthusiast/peeper we've all got slumbering deep inside. Wake him...
POSTED Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Although it masquerades as a poorly designed tent, the Lastolite Cubelite measures up as a portable studio for your photography. In fact, the measurements of the largest model (6.5 x 6.5 x 7 feet) could even fit that vintage...
POSTED Wednesday, October 18, 2006
With one main camera, several remote cameras, and a bit of magic (read: Wi-Fi), last week Fujifilm made it possible to click the shutter on one camera and have all the other cameras tripped at the same time. Besides...
POSTED Thursday, October 5, 2006
This lens is quite spectacular. The built-to-order Zeiss Apo Sonnar T* 1700mm F4 lens weighs in at 564 pounds. To put that in perspective, llamas rarely break the 450-pound mark. This gargantuan lens now holds the record for "the...
POSTED Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Now here's a big, beautiful camera that I wouldn't mind getting for my birthday next week. Now to be honest, part of the reason that I'd like to unwrap the Hasselblad H3D digital SLR happens to be that my...
POSTED Friday, September 29, 2006
I'll be damned if just the other day I wasn't thinking to myself, "Self, wouldn't it be great if there was a digital SLR camera on the market with in-camera JPEG capabilities, a bright viewfinder, a dust protector, a...
POSTED Thursday, September 28, 2006
Have you ever wondered what's meant by "effective" megapixels? So have I. In the case of Fujifilm's FinePix S5 Pro, the CCD image sensor uses technology that splits the pixels into two groups: S-pixels and R-pixels. S-pixels are concerned...
POSTED Wednesday, September 27, 2006
This is no ordinary camera. It doesn't have any optics at all, so you can't capture an image of what's around you, hence the name: the blind camera. What this camera does is find an image online taken at...
POSTED Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Has the search for new digital-camera designs inspired manufacturers to start climbing trees? This exquisite camera prototype is made out of compressed wood and has a microscopic lens, but the creator, Olympus, is being pretty stubborn about releasing any...
POSTED Tuesday, September 26, 2006
The following is a dramatization: Pusher: Hey, you over there, want a digital camera? Let's see what we got… how about the Samsung GX-10? Well, actually, I can't sell that until November and the boss man is holding out...
POSTED Saturday, September 23, 2006
Seeing a camera this large again makes me smile from ear to ear. The new Seitz 6x17 panorama camera packs an incredible 160 megapixels into a body twice the size of a human head. The native images it takes...
POSTED Thursday, September 21, 2006
If you're like me, you weep when you see digital cameras that have the design sense of the "lumpy leviathan" (you know, the kind with loads of fancy parts sticking out over here, supposedly connected to those other high-tech...
POSTED Friday, September 15, 2006
There's nothing quite as satisfying as taking someone's photo when they're completely unaware, which is why we just love us some creepy spy cameras. This particular model is hidden inside an unassuming lighter, allowing you to use as a...
POSTED Friday, September 15, 2006
What do you want in a digital camera — slim, sexy styling, or loads of megapixels? Whichever's your pleasure, Sony's got you covered with two new Cyber-shot models coming out tomorrow, according to the shutterbugs at Digital Camera Review....
POSTED Monday, September 11, 2006
While JVC was pretty quick to enter the HD camcorder market with its 720p resolution GR-HD1 a couple of years back, it were beaten to the punch by arch rivals Canon and Sony when it comes to showing a...
POSTED Thursday, September 7, 2006
As much as you love your iPod nano, it's going to run out of power during that flight to Australia. So will your BlackBerry. And your Dell notebook. If you want to keep using them — all of them...
POSTED Wednesday, August 30, 2006
If you're in need of a covert spy camera to do something like catch a thieving nanny, a cheating spouse, or a showering neighbor, the more hidden the camera the better your chances of not getting caught, sued, and slapped....
POSTED Monday, August 21, 2006
As electronics manufacturers try to remove cables from our lives completely, it'll only be a matter of time before cameras lose their wired leashes. The EyeFi is looking to make that happen sooner rather than later. What looks like an...
POSTED Thursday, August 17, 2006
Here's one for the peepers out there: the Thanko BINOCA01 binoculars with a built-in camera. What act like normal binoculars can also take photos and even video with the included 2-megapixel camera. Powered by two AA batteries, the camera...
POSTED Thursday, August 10, 2006
For anyone who occasionally dips (ouch!) into underwater photography — or is just really accident prone with beverages — Pentax's Optio W20 camera can take photos underwater without any need for a waterproof case. It's an upgrade of the...
POSTED Tuesday, August 8, 2006
You just got home from a two-month backpacking trip across Europe, purportedly to "find yourself" but really to "avoid work," and you've got tons of photos to show off. You can identify the landmarks, like Big Ben and the...
POSTED Wednesday, August 2, 2006
This strange-looking camera is the Lomographic Fisheye Camera #Two. Much like the name suggests, it takes fisheye pictures — photos that "sphereize" their subjects to put more in the frame and make them look sort of 3D. You can...
POSTED Friday, July 28, 2006
Whenever my commando squad is on a night mission and it's time to report back to CENTCOM, my CO often complains that the video quality coming from my MacBook Pro's iSight cam is just too grainy. Promising to keep...
POSTED Tuesday, July 18, 2006
If your gadget pool has grown beyond the obligatory cell phone and iPod (and really, whose hasn't?), chances are the place where you plug them all in for recharging is looking pretty tangled. That is, if you even managed...
POSTED Monday, July 17, 2006
Taking photos in dark places oftentimes leaves you with a lousy choice: either use the flash and potentially have a washed-out foreground and dark background, or go without the flash and get nothing but shadows. Fujifilm's new 6-megapixel F20...
POSTED Thursday, July 13, 2006
Good news for all you sneaky perverts out there: James Bond-esque spy glasses are now available for your unscrupulous needs. Featuring a tiny camera between the eyes, the camera runs its video down wires into the small viewing device...
POSTED Wednesday, July 12, 2006
It's not often that a printer can claim to have a new and unexpected twist, but the Lexmark P450 can. Featuring a built-in CD burner, it has the ability to create photo CDs directly from your camera, memory cards,...
POSTED Friday, July 7, 2006
Subway crime is down in New York City, with one startling exception: theft of personal electronics like cell phones and iPods. And though we don't have stats on hand, we're betting the trend is similar throughout the country. To...
POSTED Thursday, June 15, 2006
A new chip designed by Micron Technology will allow digital still cameras to shoot up to 30 shots per second, capturing fast motion or creating photomontages à la A Hard Days Night. Able to capture 30 photos per second at...
POSTED Friday, May 19, 2006
It's the main thing on your mind when you walk into an electronics store: Don't get ripped off. Whether you're shopping for a digital camera, computer, or HDTV, you want to know what's a fair price, and what's a...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
Here's another cool-looking concept with dubious chances of actually becoming a real product: the slide box camera, designed by Jessica Nebel, separates your digital cam into two parts: the lens, on a little cylinder, and the rest of the...
POSTED Thursday, May 18, 2006
It doesn't sport Wi-Fi like the EasyShare-One, but Kodak's 6-megapixel V610 still lets you wirelessly transfer photos, this time via Bluetooth, so you can share your pix with other 'toothy gadgets — PCs, printers, cell phones, and all the...
POSTED Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Sony is continuing towards its goal of giving crisp, clear photos to even the most shaky-fisted photographers with the new Cyber-Shot DSC-T30. The digital camera has two big features to help prevent blurry pictures: Super Steady Shot optical image...
POSTED Thursday, April 6, 2006
Cell-phone cameras typically shoot pictures so bad that even Mr. Magoo would insist on better equipment. The number of models that actually capture decent photos is growing, however, but the problem is that many of these phones suffer from lousy...
POSTED Wednesday, March 22, 2006
If you're getting the flash-memory cards from your digital camera and MP3 player mixed up all the time, the Memory Card Travel Case ($20) can help keep your bits organized. Developed by Digital Foci, known for digital photo albums and...
POSTED Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Cell-phone cameras are incredibly handy, since, unlike a regular camera, we tend to have them with us when that unexpected Kodak moment pops up. Too bad that most of them deliver pretty iffy picture quality at best. Enter the Samsung...
POSTED Friday, March 10, 2006
Digital photographers have reason to celebrate. Coming this summer: Secure Digital flash-memory cards with 4 gigabytes of capacity, courtesy Panasonic. Although 4-GB SD cards were first announced last year, Panasonic's will be the first card to meet the SD 2.0...
POSTED Friday, March 10, 2006
Haven't found a digital SLR that's caught your eye — or your budget? A new crop of dSLRs is turning heads this week at the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show in Orlando. The beef most photographers have with digital...
POSTED Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Five Imagelink-compatible digital cameras have bust out of the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) show in Orlando. What's Imagelink? It's a print system that lets picture takers print photos directly from a camera to a Kodak EasyShare printer — no PC...
POSTED Monday, February 27, 2006
Getting bigger megapixel bang for your buck is so 2004. These days, digital-camera makers are loading up their more modestly priced wares with features normally found in pricier cameras. Case in point: Casio's two new additions to its midrange...
POSTED Tuesday, February 21, 2006
As most digital photographers know, flash memory is something you can never have too much of. Prices have dropped over the years, so I've amassed quite a collection of CompactFlash cards ranging in size from 8 MB to 1 GB....
POSTED Friday, January 27, 2006
The sun is a big, fat ball of plasma whose radiant light is a source of energy ripe for the taking. All you need is a solar cell to convert it into electricity, and you're living off the grid. Enter...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
If you think about it, having a camera in your cellphone would be virtually useless if it wasn't a communications device. I mean, who would want to snap pics from a phone if you had to connect it to...
POSTED Wednesday, January 25, 2006
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