Polaroid Bringing Back The Instant Camera

Oh wow.  This was a really sweet piece of news.  Seems that Polaroid's decided that, in these days of multiple megapixel digital cameras, there's still a place for that old instant camera that's so iconic it even gets featured in songs. Shake it like a Polaroid picture, and all like that. But anyway, the company's looking to ...

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Researchers Unscramble Light for Better Pictures?

A team of researchers from Princeton have come up with a new technique for improving the quality of your pictures. Lead by electric engineer Jason Fleisher they have been able to pass the light through a nonlinear crystal which normally distorts the picture. But a computer algorithm will piece the data together and the resulted ...

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