Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Wii U to get app store — photo apps as well?

Nintendo's new console, the Wii U, will be getting an app store, and not just games will be available for the Wii U and its tablet controller: the console will apparently also support non-gaming apps. Which begs the question: will we see some kind of photo apps for the Wii U? The possibilities are huge, ...

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StolenCameraFinder finds a stolen camera using existing photos

What you are seeing here is an App for the web known as StolenCameraFinder, which finds a camera using what photos you have left. Hopefully, you have done a recent download from your camera. Apparently, it works by simply dragging photos onto the main page, and it can read the EXIF data from ...

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“Naked States” comes to Hulu

Every once in a while, some interesting film shows up on Hulu, like Exit Through the Gift Shop. I thought Naked States, which you can watch above, might be of an interest to photographers. Naked States is about a photographer named Spencer Tunick who goes to every state in order to snap ...

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Nikon D5100 torn apart

The tech and gadget gurus as iFixit have taken a brand new Nikon D5100 and completely gutted it, showing us what it's made of. iFixit does this for a number of reasons, one of which is to simply satisfy peoples curiosity of what's inside gadgets, but another reason is to guide potential D5100 owners on ...

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Uptoyou Toronto is selling undeveloped disposable cameras

I'm sure that some of you have used disposable cameras before. I still remember a waterproof disposable camera that I had with me on a rafting trip a few years ago that I accidentally left at a diner afterward. Man, I wish I could get that back. Uptoyou Toronto has an interesting ...

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Does Google want to create a facial recognition App

I'm sure that you know that Google has their Google Googles App which can take a picture of anything and do a visual search on it. Some might fear that this could easily become a facial recognition search, that someone could take a picture of you and have access to information that they shouldn't ...

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Digital Camera Inventor Steve Sasson & CMOS Sensor Inventor Eric Fossum Added to National Inventor’s Hall of Fame

If you go back a decade or more, even the most tech savvy photographers would swear by good old fashioned, film consuming cameras. However, now a days, things have largely changed thanks to the addition of high powered yet affordable digital cameras. In fact, it seems to be very rare that a digital camera manufacturer ...

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Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the Rodney King beating

Today marks the anniversary of the day when George Holliday filmed a video of LAPD officers beating up Rodney King. The video was played several times on air back in 1991, and outrage over the trial of the officers led to the infamous LA riots. This was back in the days before the ...

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How Camera Phones have affected Modern Concert culture

I recently read an article at Gizmodo that led me to think about the existence of camera phones at concerts. Usually, the guy at the concert who is using his camera phone is frowned upon. Part of it is he or she might be using the flash to blind people, and then there ...

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YouTuber could receive 20 years for a video

Who is this man? He is Evan Emory, and because of a YouTube video he made, he could face 20 years in prison. What was his crime? He sung a sexually explicit song to a classroom full of elementary school students. Actually, he claims that he didn't. All he did ...

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