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pink hd camcorder: because girls like digital video too

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More and more gadgets are starting to turn up in colors besides basic black, white or grey. It was only a matter of time before the good old camcorder got a colorful makeover – in pink.

This cheery pink digital camcorder is perfect for girls (and very confident men) who want to shoot video and…

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October 23rd, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets technology video

vicon revue camera automatically takes pictures of user’s day: a photographic twitter

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Twitter lets people share even the littlest, most unremarkable things in their lives. This winter Vicon will release the Vicon Revue, a camera that promises to make “lifelogging” – making a photographic archive of your day – popular. Oh crap.

The Vicon Revue was originally called SenseCam. Some of you may have heard of SenseCam…

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October 17th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: digital imaging future tech gadgets mobile tech technology

photosketch internet image montage: this needs to be out now

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Developed by a team of students from Tsinghua University and the National University of Singapore, Photosketch is a more practical version of Scribblenauts. Say you want to have a picture of a shark jumping out of the sea in an attempt to swallow a helicopter. All you have to do create a rough sketch the…

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October 9th, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: computing digital imaging future tech just plain fun strange + wonderful technology

the weirdest cameras you will ever see: the art of wayne martin belger

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It’s Strange & Wonderful Wednesday, and as I was perusing the offerings of the Internet I came upon Gerard Vlemmings’ – aka The Presurfer – link to an article on blogbits about weird cameras. They were weird alright: there was an 18-carat gold plated Pentax LX and even a pistol-shaped camera. But the article promised…

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September 30th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: design geek art + craft strange + wonderful

roombas make dazzling time-lapse light paintings

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Ever wonder what sort of stuff was running through the electronic brain of your Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner? These wonderful time-lapse photos should give you a pretty good idea of what your Roomba has been up to.

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September 29th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging geek art + craft robots strange + wonderful technology

classic video games as they were never supposed to be

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We may have moved past the blocky look of pixels in modern gaming, but the designs of squares on squares that mark classic games continue to have special places in the hearts of gamers. But what if those storied jaggy characters and interfaces were thrust into the real world?

With his Jump ‘n’ Run series,…

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August 17th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: geek art + craft retro strange + wonderful video games

avatar telescopic spy camera perfect for snooping on neighbors

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Want to see what the guy in the apartment across the street is up to? This digital spy camera has a ridiculously long telescopic lens that lets you zoom in on the action from afar.

The Avatar digital camera has a 21x analog zoom lens which should make long-distance observation and photography a snap. While…

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July 29th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets technology

real brawl character photos are nightmarishly compelling

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If you ever wondered what that mysterious turtle Lakitu would look like if he was, say, human, your day is here. In fact, you get a large chunk of the cast of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros Brawl, all in the disturbing vision of Greg De Stefano. Or maybe I’m just creeped out by his version…

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July 12th, 2009 comments (2) stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: geek art + craft strange + wonderful video games

wearable vision: mit researchers develop fabric that acts as camera

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MIT researchers have come up with a camera that uses light-sensitive fibers in place of a lens. When woven together, the fibers form a fabric that can “measure light intensity distribution at different wavelengths across a large area.” The information that the fabric gathers is then fed into a computer for processing. Like many awesome…

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July 8th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: digital imaging future tech gadgets mobile tech strange + wonderful technology

brinno gardenwatchcam: time-lapse digital garden camera shoots video slightly more interesting than watching paint dry

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Want to know if your green thumb is really green? This nifty garden gadget lets you keep watch over your budding plants 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from across the globe if you want.

The Brinno GardenWatchCam observes your flowers as they grow, taking time lapse digital photos at intervals ranging from…

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July 7th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: digital imaging gadgets strange + wonderful technology video

diana multi-pinhole operator camera by lomography helps you take puke-inducing pictures

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Lomography’s new Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator allows users to use up to 3 pinholes in one shot. The pinholes create a ripple, cross-eyed effect that only worsens becomes crazier once you add the color filters to the mix. The Diana Multi-Pinhole Operator has a focal length of 29 mm, a pinhole diameter of 0.277 mm and…

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June 16th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: cool toys gadgets just plain fun retro strange + wonderful

the western world finally going on a beautiful safari in afrika [ps3]

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Sony’s stunning safari photo hunt game, Afrika, was left languishing when it came to an English-language release. Sony declined to take the title outside of Asia after it was released last August, but the game has been picked up by Natsume–of Harvest Moon fame–for release in other major markets later this year. Sofa photos, rejoice!

Afrika has…

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May 28th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: alisha k.

filed under: video games

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