
So you are a tourist on the go, always looking for the next cool thing to show your friends when you get home. No matter what camera you have, there's nothing like a panoramic picture, and there aren't that many devices capable of such features. In fact the Gigapan system is rather expensive and could ...
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June 9th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Cool Products | 1 Comment

It looks like the White House can never have too much stuff going on at once. The institution has decided to become even more consumer-friendly and it has just launched a Flickr Stream comprised of 292 photos to the date. You can check it all out if you really want to have the impression you ...
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April 29th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures | 1 Comment

While we can't boldly go where no man has gone before yet, we can apparently decide where to point that Hubble to. NASA is indeed asking the public to decide among six targets for the Hubble. You can vote until March 1 and you'll have to choose from destinations like "Star-Forming Region: NGC 6634" or ...
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February 1st, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, News | 7 Comments

Photography is a great hobby and it can be an even better profession. Current digital cameras are so easy to handle that basically anyone could take great pictures with them. All that's required is a little training before pushing the buttons and a little attention.
Now the lady in the picture here is in for some ...
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January 29th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Digital Art/Photos | 3 Comments

Photographer David Bergman covered President Barack Obama's inauguration in Washington and what a fine job he did. The photo in the picture here is actually 59,783 x 24,658 pixels or 1,474 megapixels big.
It's a panoramic image made with a Canon G10 and a Gigapan Imager clamped to the railing about six feet from the photo ...
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January 23rd, 2009 | Posted in Canon, Cool Pictures | 1 Comment

Microsoft has this little piece of technology called Photosynth which is able to arrange together photos of a single event in a 3D space which can be zoomed at wish. CNN will still be working on it as it wants to add as many possible pictures from the crowd present at this little event we ...
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January 20th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Cool Products, Software | 1 Comment

The concept camera in the picture here is quite interesting. It can take pictures of both your friends and you, the photographer. When you press the shutter button both lenses will take a picture. And the LCD will show you what you have been photographing. The CLAM camera can fold too and it can take ...
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January 15th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Cool Products | Comments Off

President Barack Obama is going to be a whole new kind of president. And he will be President surrounded by technology. The portrait in the picture is the official portrait of the President and it's the first one ever to be taken with a digital camera. A Canon EOS 5D Mark II was used on ...
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January 14th, 2009 | Posted in Canon, Cool Pictures | 1 Comment
The technology can do wonders these days. Check out these cool pictures from Google Earth. These are photos from the El Prado in Madrid which holds inside some of the best paintings ever. And Google has decided to reveal them in an enormous 14-billion-pixel resolution. That's right, these are 14 gigapixel photos which have 1,400 ...
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January 13th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Pictures, Software | 3 Comments

The Image Fulgulator is a concept device meant to help you get pictures with extra details. The device is automatically triggered when another camera flash goes off. That means you can insert those extra details in other people's photos.
Julius von Bismark said about the Flgurator:
In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is ...
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January 4th, 2009 | Posted in Cool Products | Comments Off