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Using Infrared Cameras To Find Tastiness of Beef

JoshuaInNippon writes “Might we one day be able to use our cell phone cameras to pick out the best piece of meat on display at the market? Some Japanese researchers seem to hope so. A team of scientists is using infrared camera technology to try and…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

First Mass-produced Camera Heading For Auction

Are you a huge camera collector? Well, if you are, you’ve probably heard of the Giroux Daguerreotype camera, the world’s first commercially produced camera. This is probably your best chance to get it, as the camera, produced in 1839, wi…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |
 

Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, SMS

The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple’s at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain th…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Apple, here, this is the iPad we wanted

It seems so elementary to all of us around CrunchGear’s HQ that the iPad should have had three simple features: a camera, SD card slot, and external battery indicator. I mean, the iPad missed the mark by a lot in many areas, but it’s jus…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |
 

Confirmed: iPhone OS 3.2 has support for video calling, file downloads, and SMS

The iPad may not have a camera in its current incarnation, but Apple’s at least laying the foundation for one: we just confirmed with extremely trusted sources that iPhone OS 3.2 contains rudimentary support for video calling, which could explain th…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

Ding! Use A Kitchen Timer For Panning Time Lapse Video

If you want to give your time lapse videos a nice, smooth pan, try looking next to the pans. Using only an old school kitchen timer and a Go Pro camera, a Make reader whipped up this neat…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |
 

MSI Will Launch iPad Alternative

itwbennett writes “Underwhelmed by the iPad? Don’t give up on tablets just yet, says blogger Peter Smith. MSI has a tablet coming in the second half of 2010 that measures up on price and size and addresses a lot of the iPad’s most noted shortcomings…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

Giroux Daguerreotype is world’s first mass-produced camera, about to become the most expensive one too

If you thought that shooters like Olympus’ E-P1 or Leica’s M8 had old school aesthetics, think again. The real old school — we’re talking 1839 here — was all about wooden boxes and brass lens protrusions, as you can see above. The double box desig…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |

Pentax unveils new Optio I-10, H90 and E90 digital cameras

In the past few days we had been showered by a couple of Panasonic camera offerings. It looks like Pentax too had a few cameras in store. The company slid the covers off new digital camera models for…

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[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Technology |

iPad SDK Hints That The iPad Can Take Photos

A million people seem to be complaining that the iPad doesn’t have a camera, be it a front-facing one, or a rear-facing one. But wait, there might be hope for it yet, as the ability to “Take Photo” has been found in the SDK (softwa…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Gadgets |