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frankencamera: open source digital camera

frankencamera

Stanford computer science and electrical engineering professor Marc Levoy is a bit tired of the marketing gimmicks for digital cameras. He says that the “megapixel war” is over and the battle has now shifted from quantity to quality, as in what feature does camera X have that camera Y doesn’t. But Levoy doesn’t want to…

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September 3rd, 2009 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

filed under: digital imaging future tech gadgets interactive technology

technabob quickpix: when a picture is worth 1000 words

mesicopters: tiny flying robots to take over the world (someday)

mesicopter_tiny_flying_robot

Stanford researchers have designed these incredible little robots are about the size of a quarter for use in atmospheric research on Earth (and one day) on Mars. I just want them for conducting research in my office building.

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February 4th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

filed under: future tech quickpix robots strange + wonderful technology