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LED Cinema Display iSight Firmware Update 1.0 Available

Alongside other important updates this week, Apple has posted a firmware update for its Late 2008 LED Cinema Display. Addressing an issue with the built-in iSight camera on the LED Cinema Display where the camera may not be recognized by some applications, the update is a meagre 654 KB in size, and needs to be applie...

20 November 2009
04:02 GMT

iPod touch Detected as Camera Device in Mac OS X

A World of Apple report claims that, “Evidence continues to mount supporting rumours that Apple will add a camera to the iPod touch, like it did the iPod nano,” citing an Apple Support Note that allegedly “hints at [an] iPod Touch camera.” However, while Apple is likely to introduce a camera i...

15 October 2009
07:00 GMT

iPod nano with Video Banned from Gym Chain

A major gym chain has banned the new, video-capable iPod nano from its locker rooms to prevent privacy issues, according to TwinCities.com. According to the company, it's very hard to tell whether a user browses their song library, or actually shoots video with the device. Life Time Fitness is a company that ru...

23 September 2009
08:49 GMT

BitWink Intros Zoom Lens App for iPhone

BitWink has announced Zoom Lens 1.0 for iPhone, a new, digital-camera zoom solution offering precise pinch-to-zoom control of the real-time camera view. An 8x digital photo zoom can be achieved with Zoom Lens with full-resolution output and automatic sharpening of the resulting photo. Zoom Lens is said to offer a use...

21 September 2009
06:36 GMT

Camera Not a Priority for iPod touch, Says Jobs

Although some believe Apple did intend to equip the new iPod touch with a camera, Apple’s CEO claims otherwise. Interviewed by The NY Times’ personal technology columnist (David Pogue), Jobs has revealed that Apple has studied the market carefully and has seen that people are into the gaming capabilities ...

15 September 2009
06:15 GMT

3rd-Gen iPod touch Insides Show Camera ‘Spot’

A teardown of the third-generation iPod touch has somewhat confirmed rumors that Apple intended to put cameras in its new iPod-touch lineup, and that the device is likely capable of the new 802.11n standard. iFixit carried out its usual routine and took apart a third-generation iPod touch unit only to find that, &ld...

15 September 2009
05:40 GMT

The New iPod nano Does Video

After exactly one year since its debut, the fourth-generation iPod nano has gained a bigger screen, a built-in speaker, new software and, best of all, a built-in camera for shooting video wherever you may find yourself. The fifth-generation iPod nano can even shoot videos with real-time effects such as Thermal, Film ...

10 September 2009
06:18 GMT

$149 iPod touch, Updated Model Delayed (Rumors)

Several well-established sources believe Apple has quite a few reasons not only to start selling camera-equipped iPods, but also to cut the price on the popular iPod touch to as low as $149. Other units in the iPod range may also be on track for refreshes and price reductions, these people believe. 9to5Mac points ou...

8 September 2009
03:19 GMT

Mac OS X 10.5.8 'Includes Additional RAW Image Support'

With today’s digital cameras offering options to save pictures in digital camera RAW format, Apple provides system-level support for such formats in Mac OS X Leopard and adds new cameras with each incremental update to the operating system. Such is the case with Mac OS X 10.5.8, which adds camera support includ...

6 August 2009
04:09 GMT

iPhone - Missing Camera Application

Ever since the iPhone and iPod touch were originally released, nearly all categories of people have embraced them. Enterprises now use the devices as handy tools for exchanging emails, viewing and editing files on the go, solving various problems with the hundreds of utility apps available for both iPhone and iPod to...

19 June 2009
07:02 GMT

Your Shape Comes with New Wii Camera

Ubisoft is set to hop on the peripheral adding train, as it said at E3 that its new fitness videogame, called Your Shape, would come packed with a new camera device that should analyze the shape of the body of the gamer and construct a fitness experience around this data.Ubisoft is saying that the camera has “p...

11 June 2009
15:01 GMT

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.6

Apple has released Digital Camera RAW Compatibility 2.6, an update that extends RAW image compatibility for Aperture 2, iPhoto 08 and iPhoto 09 for three Canon cameras, the Nikon D5000 and the Olympus E-30. As usual, Apple's used the Support section of its web site to detail the contents of the latest Digital C...

5 June 2009
04:18 GMT

Leaked iPhone 3.0 Pic Shows New Front Camera (Rumor)

Published by Italian iPhone fan site iSpazio, the picture available to the left shows an iPhone with an all-black frame, and a front-facing camera – two features that may just see the light of day, Softpedia believes. The folks at CultOfMac chime in, posting the mockup of an iPhone video iChat by Graham Bower ...

4 June 2009
05:14 GMT

onOne Intros iPhone App for Photographers

onOne Software Inc. has announced a new application for iPhone and iPod touch that allows users to remotely control a Canon EOS DSLR using the Apple portable device over a Wi-Fi network. As the official report outlines, the new DSLR Camera Remote for iPhone application allows photographers to remotely control the se...

1 June 2009
16:01 GMT

Mac OS X 10.5.7 Fixes Logitech Webcam Issues

The first Mac-compatible webcam with premium autofocus technology and Carl Zeiss optics for Mac has been having issues on some systems, according to a report over at TUAW. Those issues have apparently been resolved by the Mac OS X 10.5.7 software update. The report in question bashes Apple for not documenting this, a...

20 May 2009
06:38 GMT

Site Posts Info on Future iPhone and iPod

A Mac-focused site with a mixed track record for predictions claims to have learned details about future iPhone and iPod models, mentioning that Apple is sticking to the current design, as far as next-gen iPhones go, while equipping new-generation iPods with cameras. The site states that, “We have received cou...

18 May 2009
03:12 GMT

Apple Adds New RAW Image Support in OS X 10.5.7

While addressing newly discovered security issues in Leopard, Apple included additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras in its latest incremental update to Mac OS X 10.5. Leopard provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats from a huge number of cameras, Apple says. The list now incl...

13 May 2009
05:40 GMT

Fastest Camera Takes 6.1 Million Shots per Second

Talking about the ultimate gadget! Experts at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced the development of the world's fastest camera, able to pick up 6.1 million frames per second. While this may seem like a thing belonging to science-fiction, the device is real and has already produced ...

30 April 2009
02:31 GMT

DSi Sales Are Double Those of the DS Lite

Nintendo is saying that, in its first week, the Nintendo DSi has sold more than 435,000 units in North America, which is pretty good considering that the previous model, the DS Lite, only sold around 226,000 units when it was initially put out in June 2006. That's almost double, and signals the fact that the DSi...

21 April 2009
04:41 GMT

New iPhone OS 3.0 Findings Show Video Editing Tools, Fresh iPhone

Those nosing around iPhone OS 3.0 claim to have found numerous references to upcoming additions, both hardware and software-related. Based on these findings, iPhone users may receive a video-editing-capable OS 3.0, while new iPhone models seem to be in line for a camera upgrade, as well as support for 802.11n capabil...

6 April 2009
03:17 GMT

Adobe Releases Camera Raw 5.3, Lightroom 2.3

Adobe Systems Inc. has released two updates for users of Photoshop CS4 and Photoshop Elements 6: Camera Raw 5.3 update and Photoshop Lightroom 2.3. Users are encouraged to download the new releases using the links provided below.Camera Raw 5.3 updates the Camera Raw plug-in and replaces the original plug-in that was ...

3 March 2009
08:33 GMT

New Gadget Knows What You Want to Do

Gadgets such as mobile phones, personal data assistants (PDA), remote controls, and personal music players have been the beneficiaries of a large number of innovations over the past few years, all designed to make their use a lot easier and more intuitive than it was when they were first conceived. But the new device...

17 February 2009
08:41 GMT

New Security Camera Tells Suspicious People from Lost Ones

The new “smart” surveillance system, designed by James W. Davis, an associate professor of computer science and engineering at the Ohio State University, and doctoral student Karthik Sankaranarayanan, surpasses regular surveillance cameras by a great deal, as it is no longer limited to the tilt-pan-rotate...

18 December 2008
05:15 GMT

Sony Ericsson C905a Goes to AT&T

The letter “a” in the name of this Sony Ericsson device is significant since it represents the fact that this is the American version we're talking about, after having been spotted at FCC. It's expected to cause quite a bit of stir considering the fact that its camera capabilities are spectacula...

10 December 2008
08:37 GMT

Solution for Cheaper, Better Cameras Discovered by Accident

One more time, like it was the case for penicillin, X-rays, or the recent discovery of an exoplanet by a group of young students, proof has been made that science is often the result of accidents. This time, a team of UCLA scientists and, more specifically, a graduate student by the name of Hsiang-Yu Chen, have disco...

8 December 2008
08:32 GMT

5 Tips to Make Your Cell Phone Battery Last Longer

Modern mobile phones have numerous applications installed, as well as a bunch of other features, including photo cameras, blitzes, Bluetooth devices and others. All these accessories take up large amounts of electricity from the battery, prompting users to recharge them more often. This consumes a lot of electric ene...

26 November 2008
04:49 GMT

Endeavour Carries an Agricultural Camera

Students from the University of North Dakota have designed and built a special type of camera, called Agricultural Camera (also known as AgCam), which is currently carried by the space shuttle Endeavour during the STS-126 mission to the International Space Station. The camera is meant to provide pictures of crop...

15 November 2008
06:02 GMT

Hubble Resuscitated at Last

At last, after more than a month of constant glitches and failed resurrection attempts, the 18-year old Hubble Space Telescope has once more opened one of its eyes towards the sky. The device seems to have recovered well after the mishaps sent it to an idle safe mode state and has currently resumed its space photogra...

30 October 2008
11:11 GMT

Lextech Labs Launches $900 iPhone Surveilance App

Lextech Labs’ iRa has brought the tools of the high-end security industry to the iPhone, enabling users to view multiple video feeds and directly control pan-tilt-zoom cameras from their device.Users may define multiple groups of cameras, each containing as many video feeds as they like, and quickly switch betw...

28 October 2008
15:07 GMT

Adobe Updates Lightroom, Camera Raw Plugin

Adobe has announced updates to Photoshop Lightroom and the Photoshop Camera Raw plugin. The updates are immediately available as free downloads for existing Lightroom 2 and Photoshop CS4 users, and provide improvements to Photoshop integration, as well as new raw file support for 15 digital cameras including the Niko...

23 October 2008
13:41 GMT

Mobileye Reduces Car Crash Risk by 80 Percent

As car accidents cause more victims every year, it became clear that some form of warning system for drivers had to be developed. Experts from the Netherlands-based company Mobileye took on the challenge, and designed a camera that is able to recognize potential threats to the security of the car, warning the driver ...

22 October 2008
09:24 GMT

NASA's Hubble Rerouting-Reboot Process Failed

Some 3 weeks ago, Hubble suffered a major glitch that prevented it from capturing and sending back the amazing pictures that we were accustomed to. NASA planned to repair it this week and have it online by Friday, but the failure to reboot on Thursday is still keeping the telescope silent and only able to use a minor...

18 October 2008
04:10 GMT

New Strongest Robot Record

Up to now, the world title for the most powerful robot had been held by KUKA's Titan for 16 months, but the recent appearance of Fanuc Robotics' M-2000iA/1,200 changed all that. Both devices have large applications in technology, industry and even entertainment.Far from being just “muscles”, the...

16 October 2008
07:26 GMT

Free iPhone Photo Contest Begins

You own an Apple iPhone? Well, then there's no time to waste. The iPhone Photo Contest, sponsored by Kelby Training, has just kicked off. Participation is free of charge, and you are required to send in what you think are the best quality pictures you've taken with your iPhone camera. Prizes include Apple /...

2 October 2008
04:52 GMT

Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.2

Along with the release of a major OS update, Apple also updates the compatibility with certain raw digital cameras. The Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 2.2 offers support for an additional ten cameras from renowned manufacturers such as Kodak, Sony and Canon.Describing the Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Upd...

17 September 2008
13:21 GMT

Three-Gram Robotic 'Dragonfly' Takes to the Sky

Following the creation of DelFly I and II, researchers from TU Delft have now produced their tiniest Micro Air Vehicle to date, the DelFly Micro, weighing a mere three grams and capable of flying much in the same way as a dragonfly. The new MAV is flown by remote control, implies the help of a small camera and image ...

24 July 2008
11:10 GMT

'iSight HD' Reference Found in QuickTime

Exactly for how long this reference to an HD iSight labeled next-gen has been available in QuickTime's localizable.strings is not known for sure yet. Still, the news is certainly exciting, should this mean Apple is prepping to release a new, external iSight for the company's currently selling systems.MacRum...

16 June 2008
04:30 GMT

Samsung SCH-W480 Brings 3X Optical Inner Zoom

In its continuous attempt to bring better and better mobile phones, Samsung has released the SCH-W480, a new handset that works not only as a phone but also as a digital camera. Of course, there are lots of other handsets that can be proud of their built-in cameras, but there aren't too many of them to feature a...

13 June 2008
03:49 GMT

New Nokia 6260 Slider with High-End Photo Camera

Another new phone from Nokia's upcoming line-up was recently unveiled and that is Nokia 6260. The handset was spotted on the same Flickr account where Nokia's N85, N79 and XpressMedia 5800 have also appeared. That Flickr account only existed for a few days and it's no longer accessible, but we still ha...

11 June 2008
03:54 GMT

World's First Controllable Camera Pill

Tiny cameras used to see the inside of the body are far from a new concept today, although it is the first time when the movements of such a device can be controlled as it passes through the organs. The idea behind tiny cameras used for medical explorations is very simple. The patient swallows a small device inside w...

9 June 2008
09:12 GMT

Red One Inventor Gives First Details on Scarlet

Jim Jannard is having a good time. On the discussion forums of his most daring project to date, his customers are having similar amounts of fun. Theirs is an almost childish brand of fun - mostly grown men, quite a few already established in the film and broadcast business, many just starting out - all of them sharin...

11 April 2008
10:56 GMT

Samsung Delivers World's Thinnest 8 Megapixel Camera Phone Module

Samsung just announced its latest achievement: the ultra-thin camera phone module that measures only 8.5mm thickness. After successfully developing in September 2006 a 5 Megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom and autofocus that has managed to overcome the 9 mm barrier, slim phones, as well as PDA, PMP, MP3 players, an...

18 March 2008
06:22 GMT

Motorola Unique Concept With Stereo Camera

We recently came across a new Motorola phone concept that looks really good and has some considerable chances, which is to be built sometime in the future by the American company. Maybe not exactly in the way it looks now, but in a similar mode. The most interesting aspect of the new concept is the fact that it has ...

15 March 2008
08:17 GMT

CMOS Sensors Receive Radar Capabilities

A team of researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, including Professor Hossein Hashemi and Graduate student Ta-Shun Chu, has recently been capable to create a small 49 pixel CMOS camera, that works in the ultrawideband radar. Only two years ago, the team presented a similar CMOS chip that was only capa...

5 February 2008
07:38 GMT

Camera Phones to Get PC Mouse Functionality

Mobile phones are getting more and more complex and have become far more than just communication tools for some years now. Therefore, researchers all over the world are trying to find extra functions that can be integrated into cell phones, mainly wishing to simplify and/or improve various everyday tasks and activiti...

23 January 2008
14:06 GMT

Nokia Gaming Phone Has Been Revealed

After so many rumors regarding a Sony Ericsson PSP phone, finally someone gives us an idea of how a gaming phone should look. The entire mobile community awaits the so-called 'gaming phone', either from Sony Ericsson, Nokia or any other handset manufacturer. We already have camera phones, music phones, how ...

28 December 2007
09:38 GMT

Nokia Develops Revolutionary Phone Software Concept

It was a warm morning of May 2014 when I went out shopping with my old 10 Megapixel Nokia cell phone. I took pictures of almost anything I wanted to buy and then headed towards a library to buy "The Masterpiece", a classic novel by Émile Zola that I wanted for some time. While photographing the book through the libra...

17 December 2007
07:29 GMT

Were You A Naughty Boy? My Secret Camera Saw You...

So let's see! There is a self-destructor bag, a bug detector, a dagger shoe, a jet pack, the good old safe cracker and a bunch of other stuff James Bond would carry in his exotic "purse".This gizmo I ran into on Wired looks like an ordinary book, but it's actually a high tech camera containing a miniature v...

12 December 2007
12:36 GMT

PMP Gets 12MP Camera For Photo Frenzies!

Want to know what's really out of the hook? Well, why on earth would anyone need a 12MP camera on a media player? To show off maybe?Anyway, it's not the first time Newman surprises us with an unexpectedly cool portable device, it's just unusual for PMP's to be equipped with monster options like th...

30 November 2007
14:46 GMT

Carav PMP Sports 5MP Camera!

I am telling you, these fellows are crazy…they integrated a 5 MP camera in what appears to be a rather common looking portable media player. Carav electronics says nothing to me, since they kept a low profile on the market.Still, they have recently popped out the CMV9301 PMP, which looks more than decent, but not on ...

12 November 2007
04:41 GMT


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