Google Art Project has gigapixel images of masterpieces online

Google Earth certainly puts a lot of work on Maps and all sorts of everything else, so now it is pointing its camera at artwork. Google has gone to seventeen art museums around the world in order to take high-resolution pictures of masterpieces. These museums include "Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art ...

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Panasonic to Release Lumix Branded Camera Smartphones?

It's no secret that as technology gets more advanced, products available on the market do the same. While there are several hardware manufacturers pushing out fully capable cameras of all shapes, sizes and prices there are a few that stand out above the rest. Panasonic, for instance, has their line up of extremely popular Lumix branded ...

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Google Places’ Camera Spotted At Convenience Store

Recently, a Google employee was seen using his camera to record the routine activities of consumers inside of a New York City convenience store. Apparently, this occurrence is part of a project that started in April to document the insides of businesses by photograph for Google Places. Furthermore, the purpose of such a ...

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Google’s Street View Camera Catches High School Couple In Their First Deep Kiss

One day, two high school students in Wolverhampton, England pick a quiet and seemingly vacant spot to share their first passionate kiss since they started dating. Of course, the young lovers probably chose the location for their display of mutual affection, expecting to have some privacy. Unfortunately, they hadn't counted on Google being ...

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Google announces Google TV

Google has just come forth at their yearly I/O convention to announce their Google TV platform. This exciting new product from Google looks to blur the line between computers and television incorporating popular Google products like their search and Android into one. The reason I'm telling you photography addicts this is because Google is looking to ...

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Google photo collage, made by Google workers

The video here is a photo collage from our friends at Google. It was done by Google employees over a span of 5.5 hours. I suppose most would have just done the collage and be glad, but Google has a video of it. A photo was snapped every 7 seconds over 5.5 ...

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Pentax Optio L10 and H90 Spotted then Removed

Two Pentax Optio cameras went as early as they were spotted. The Pentax Optio L10 and H90 were picked up by Photorumors thanks to Google Cache. These two new Pentax cameras have yet to be released and as to why they were suddenly taken out remains a mystery. No other information aside from the pictures ...

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One Minute With A Droid Camera

So you may or may not have heard about the Droid, a camera phone from a strange bedfellows coalition that is Verizon and Google, but by all reports, this sucker's something else. In fact, I just found video a matter of hours ago involving the Droid--someone took a one minute long test video with their Droid's ...

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Google’s New Search Camera Based, Up To the Moment

Sometimes, hearing about Google's search capabilities is enough to freak me out.  Frankly, sometimes, I think hearing about Google's search capabilities is enough to freak GEORGE ORWELL out. But they carry on and make their search even more powerful, now featuring real-time camera shot searching. It's a real-time search display known simply as "latest", in which ...

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Dash Cam Dually for Cars

The Dash Cam Dually has been branded as “the final answer to all car cameras”, pertaining to its ability to record evidence of car crashes though some may beg to disagree. The Dash Cam Dually is armed with two 1.3 megapixel cameras and comes packed with a GPS, a digital compass and a shock sensor ...

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