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seiko epson creates hi-res e-ink display

filed under: digital imaging | future tech

Seiko Epson Hi-res E-ink Display

This new electronic paper display from Seiko Epson crams an astounding 1600 x 1200 resolution into a 6.7-inch diagonal screen. That’s nearly 2-million pixels in a device that’s about the size of a letter-sized sheet of paper folded in half.

According to my rough math, the display cranks out over 230 pixels-per-inch, about 3 times that of the typical LCD computer screen…

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November 15th, 2007 5 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

hp photosmart a826 photo printer: mork calling orson

filed under: computing | digital imaging

HP Photosmart A826

This odd-looking photo printer from HP has a style that you’ll either love or hate. Reminiscent in some ways of the original egg-shaped iMac models from the late 1990s, the Photosmart A826 printer looks a bit like something out of an old science fiction movie.

While its design might be a bit outlandish, functionally, it’s pretty robust for a dedicated photo printer…

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October 21st, 2007 1 comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

levelhead: trippy augmented reality game

filed under: digital imaging | interactive | video games

Julian Oliver’s levelHead Interactive Game

New Zealand digital artist Julian Oliver is working on a cool game that blends the electronic universe with the real world. His work-in-progress game called levelHead uses a series of cubes placed on a table top. Digital cameras and custom software sense the movements of the cubes and superimpose digital images of a tiny little 3-dimensional gameplay universe…

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October 14th, 2007 9 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

giant bug eye satellite camera could capture an entire city

filed under: digital imaging | future tech

Satellite Lens Array

Satellite imagery has become part of our everyday lives through applications like Google Maps. However, the current technology involves capturing tons of high-resolution images and stitching them together to form one larger image…

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September 27th, 2007 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

adobe photoshop cs3 for iphone

filed under: digital imaging | just plain fun | media players

iPhone Photoshop CS3

So now that you’ve snapped a few photos with your iPhone’s super-duper camera, where do you turn to edit your pix? Do you dock your iPhone with your computer, sync up with iTunes, then open the photos in your desktop image editing software? What are you, some kind of hillbilly?..

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September 18th, 2007 post a comment stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

mirror answers the question: is that a weave?

filed under: design | digital imaging | interactive

Daniel Rozin’s Weave Mirror

I first told you about artist Daniel Rozin’s cool interactive mirrors about a year ago. He’s now showing off his latest creations at New York’s Bitforms gallery. Here are a couple of my favorites:

The Weave Mirror uses 768 individual strips which are woven together into a grid…

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September 17th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

doggie cam takes dog’s eye view photos

filed under: digital imaging | strange and wonderful

Tomy Wonderful Shot Dog Cam

Our friends over at CScout Japan turned me onto this wacky digital camera that straps to your dog’s neck and can automatically snap pictures throughout the course of the doggie day.

TakaraTomy’s Wonderful Shot camera keeps a visual diary of the happenings in your dog’s life by snapping an image every so often…

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September 6th, 2007 4 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

sanyo xacti claims worlds smallest 1080p camcorder

filed under: digital imaging

Sanyo Xacti DMX-HD1000

Sanyo has just taken the wraps off their latest compact digital camcorder, and this one’s a real heavy-hitter. The new DMX-HD1000 not only grips nicely in the palm of your hand, it can record movies a stellar 1920 x 1080 video resolution.

The handheld camera works its magic recording full motion video in MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format…

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August 30th, 2007 3 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

holographic display shows 360-degree digital images

filed under: digital imaging | future tech | video

Interactive 360º Light Field Display

At the recent SIGGRAPH 2007 conference, a team of engineers from USC showed off a display system that’s capable of projecting interactive 360-degree viewable images produced by a computer.

By using a high-speed video projector, a spinning platform with a holographic diffuser and special decoding hardware, the display can crank out up to 5,000 real-time images per second…

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August 27th, 2007 2 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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