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Kanwar Chadha, founder of GPS chip designer SiRF, has predicted that we could be seeing the first GPS-enabled digital cameras become available in some point of 2008. Chadha says “Most (camera makers) are seriously planning location-enabled cameras. The first you’ll see next year.” While this should be taken as soley a rumor so far, seeing as Chadha does have quite ...

Sony has developed a CMOS camera to be integrated into the Nissan “around view monitor”, which displays an overhead view of a vehicle with four cameras video system. The 23.4 � 23.4 � 21.7mm camera will offer 1.3 MP, 30 frame rate per second, with a 186.2� view in a horizontal direction and 147� in a vertical direction. We guess ...

Instead of worrying about buying an assortment of custom lenses for your video camera, why not just add your own SLR lenses on to the one you already own. The problem with adding multiple lenses is that your display winds up upside down because of all of the mirrored images. Joshua Reich fixes this problem with a few harmless tweaks ...

We’ve seen some inventive camera stabilizers, including the Spiderbrace Camera Stabilizer and the Mini Camera Stand, but how about one that acts as an adhesive device? The Monster Pod uses a “patented viscoelastic polymer base”, which is scientific talk for a special adhering plastic. While I wouldn’t dare place my expensive DSLR Digital Rebel camera on this thing, a nice ...

Cameras have come a long way in the last 5 years. It’s interesting to think of where we’ll be in another 5 years time. We might be seeing gadgets like this Canon Snap concept. Designed to fit around your finger, the high-quality camera would be perfect for taking those candid snapshots. Aesthetically, the Canon Snap looks just as sexy as ...

Here is another case of birds being tortured by humans in the name of tech. A research team at the University of Oxford is trying to get a better idea of how crows behave in the wild. And what better way to accomplish this than to attach cameras near its ass. The ass camera already discovered that crows use tools, ...

The Triops is a rugged digital camera that can actually be thrown by photography buffs interested in capturing some unique images. The device responds to sound or movement, so in a situation where it is thrown, suspended, or just left in an unusual location it can act autonomously. It also allows users to take sequential photographs and 360 panoramic images ...

A member from German forum Se-world has pointed out that at least one of the demo photos shown by SonyEricsson Germany for their upcoming Cybershot K850i phone is actually not taken by the phone itself. If you check the EXIF data, it would suggest that this picture (here) was not taken by the device concerned, but a Sanyo S50 digital ...

A Chinese site has posted up live pictures of an unannounced SonyEricsson Cybershot device. Allegedly these pictures are showing a K850i successor with 3x optical zoom. Whilst the front actually looks like a K850i itself, with the d-pad in the middle of small squarish keys, the back looks like an upgrade of K810i. It will be interesting to see how ...

We admit that taking panoramic photos has become much easier through the years thanks to technology that allows you to line up the skyline with your other photos, but nothing makes it quite as easy as this. The Panoramic Digital Camera is specially made to spin on its own axis to take perfectly rounded photos. The camera spins a full ...