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Meta 1, Yet Another Augmented Reality Headset – Video

17th of May 2013 05:12 GMT

Meta is a startup company that probably wouldn't have managed to get its plans off the ground alone. Fortunately, it managed to secure a collaboration with Epson, leading to the successful introduction of the Meta 1 augmented reality headset. The first difference anyone will notice between it and Google's...

Olympus Launches PEN Lite E-PL6 Camera

13th of May 2013 03:42 GMT

Since Olympus launched the Pen E-P5 just last week, some may be tempted to believe the company would take a sabbatical, but that is not what has happened. Instead, the company has launched another photo and video capture device. Said device goes by the name of E-PL6 and is part of the PEN Lite series, developed by ...

Samsung Galaxy S4 Zoom May or May Not Be SM-C1010

11th of May 2013 05:06 GMT

The Galaxy Camera turned out to be a very successful experiment, even though its merger of a camera concept with a smartphone didn't extend to including support for actual voice calls. This feature will make it to the successor of the Galaxy Camera though, which we haven't really figured out the name of. ...

Galaxy S4 Zoom, Samsung's Very First Camera Phone

7th of May 2013 03:54 GMT

Samsung's Galaxy Camera was inspired by the design of a smartphone, to an extent, at least in regard to the touchscreen-based control systems, but no matter what anyone said, the item never qualified as a camera phone. For the simple reason that the Galaxy Camera does not, in fact, support voice calls. It is s...

Insect-Inspired Camera System Has Infinite Depth of Field

2nd of May 2013 05:49 GMT

Insects are very interesting creatures, because of many reasons, but most of all due to how their eyes work. While most bugs have two eyes, these aren't normal. They are more like surfaces dotted with countless smaller eyes. Dragonflies and praying mantises, for example, each have two bulbous ocular systems th...