The Google Street View team has their method, the owners of this van have theirs. Covered in over 2,700 cameras, we like to call this van “the Panoramic Van.”
The Panoramic Van was made to promote the film Automorphosis, which is about people who perform car art.
Disappointing isn’t it? I assumed that you’d just click a photo and out would fly a massive fist. But, nope, this concept is a lot more harmless. A lot less of your enemy’s blood is included. Instead of the satisfying snap of your bully’s nose, YOU snap a picture, YOU punch the damn camera, YOU take the punch-out photo out of the device and hand it to the subject.
So yeah, this camera involves a lot of action from you that doesn’t involve running in the opposite direction of the cops. Snap the shot, shove in a piece of paper, punch, and the camera turns any image into a punched design with a digital copy also stored for good measure. Hope this thing is durable. Sometimes I don’t know my own strength.
These guys from Germany do time-lapse photography and use light sticks and such to create beautiful images. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen light art as good as LAPP’s. Sprint-Nextel’s commercials last summer were decent but I think the Germans have us Americans beat on the light art. If you want to try your own light art out, grab a digital camera and a glowstick or download an iPhone app.
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Been waiting years for the next hot Nintendo console? No worries, my friend. I have no hatred for the Nintendo DS. In fact, I used to own one a few years ago and loved it. If there’s one thing Nintendo does right, it’s portable gaming. But enough about me, you want to know about the upcoming DSi handheld. Well you’ll be glad to know it’s almost here! It drops April 5th nationwide in the US and will retail for a reasonable $169.99.
Can’t remember what makes the DSi so vastly superior to its little brother, the DS? For starters, it has two built-in cameras for taking photos and videoconferencing. There’s also now included software that allows for music and video playback. Additionally, this is brand new hardware, which means brand new games. Don’t fret though – it’ll still play “most” of your old DS games.
If you love gadgets, there’s no doubt that you love memory cards just as much. After all, your digital camera, laptop, MP3 player and hundreds of other gizmos use them. Now what if I said you could win some free SD cards just by shooting a video for YouTube? Thus is the point of SanDisk’s Point and Shoot Film Festival. Shoot a quick continuous video for YouTube, upload it and you could win $10,000 and a trip to Las Vegas. 200 others will win memory cards. Can you dig? I thought so.
Growing marijuana is a crime and that’s a damned shame. It’s no mystery that it’s a great pain reliever and can turn any award winning drama into a laugh-out-loud comedy. The war on drugs has always been a controversial topic in the realm of political agenda and the media. It’s only getting more controversial now that they’re busting growers with GPS turtles. Yes, GPS turtles.
After reports of several marijuana fields throughout Rock Creek Park south of the DC/Maryland line, the U.S. Park Police set up surveillance. Ordinarily that would mean they equipped the area with strategically placed cameras, but instead they exposed this grower with help from a box turtle fashioned with a GPS device. They eventually found the little guy crawling through a big pot field. What a terrible way to go down…busted by a turtle.
BREAKING NEWS! Chinese manufacturer Penchan has figured out how to make a cute little blue camera have 5.5 Terapixel resolution which equals about 5,500,000 megapixels. That makes this little camera thousands of times more sensitive than even the most high-tech cameras.
How did they manage such a breakthrough? And why are there not more people talking about it? And we know it can’t be a lie. It’s on the internet. Everything on the internet is totally true. Always. — Andrew Dobrow
Shopping malls can be pretty overwhelming. Most of them have adopted little “you are here”-type maps to help provide some prospective on where you are located within their twisting corridors. If that isn’t enough for your liquid mind, the Osaka-based Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute has unveiled a crowd-monitoring bot which can scope out lost souls and guide your way to consumerist heaven.
Robovie was recently tested at Universal Citywalk Osaka shopping center, where using its 16 cameras, 6 laser range finders and the 9 RFID tag readers installed in the vicinity, the little helper was able to pick out disoriented shoppers from the crowd, asking them “Are you lost?”. If they weren’t lost, he acted as a walking advertisement, recommending shops and restaurants to the shopper. I can see this getting old fast if you’re one of those people who always looks lost. — Andrew Dobrow
Remember the days when certain colored people weren’t allowed in your local delicatessens and cameras still used film? Designer Sungwoo Park remembers. This conceptual USB Digital Camera pretends to be an analog camera, offering no viewfinder, no LCD display, and only one button, yet with the ability to transfer photos with a USB cable.
The purpose is to gain a new perspective on your photos. Not worrying so much about composition and that artsy-fartsy stuff, but just taking photos to enjoy life from a different prospective. — Andrew Dobrow
If you manage an online business, whether it be on Ebay or some other merchant site, you know that having well-shot photos of your products is great for catching customers attention. The Photosimile 5000 provides an all-in-one studio for photographing your products.
The Photosimile, a 28-inch cube illuminated by 6,500K daylight bulbs, connects to your computer via USB, with the special bundled Photosimile Control software managing everything from your cameras location and settings to providing 360-degree shots of your products. Look for it available by March 2008, no pricing yet available. (more…)
