While “hanging ten” may be out of the question for those in the Northeast this time of year, it’s still a great time for a SURFboard. ARRIS, the telecommunications company that acquired Motorola Home early last year, has jumped in to offer a …
When you’re not having crazy Google Glass sex
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Apple has announced the expansion of iBooks Textbooks and iTunes U Course Manager into additional countries across Asia, Latin America, Europe, and more. With the expansion comes the availability of … Continue reading
The Hasselblad H5D-50c will move the medium-format camera maker from CCD image sensor technology to CMOS technology.
(Credit: Hassselblad)
Instead of going for more pixels, medium-format digital camera maker Hasselblad is going for better ones.
Over the last decade, much of the camera world has switched image sensors from the older CCD (charge-coupled device) technology to CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor), the same manufacturing process used to build conventional microprocessors. Now the high-end digital camera maker is making the same shift — something its primary rival, Phase One, has so far chosen not to do.
Hasselblad is planning a new flagship camera, its H5D-50c, that aside from the sensor looks like its existing 50-megapixel H5D-50. The company hasn’t said when it’ll ship or how much it’ll cost, but promises to release further details in March. A debut at the Photokina show in September wouldn’t be a big surprise.
A CMOS sensor will mean the camera can take more frames per second, since data can be slurped off the sensor faster; let photographers shoot longer exposures; and perhaps most important, will work better at high ISO sensitivity settings, the company said Tuesday. And image quality won’t be sacrificed, it promised — an essential assurance given that very high image quality is the main reason pros put up with medium format’s bulk and expense.
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Iron Man, Captain America and Thor would make any Egyptian god think twice before picking a fight.
(Credit: Josh Ln)
What if King Tut went up against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Or Cleopatra seduced Thor instead of Anthony? Would Anubis and Wolverine be best friends or mortal enemies? With Josh Ln‘s art series “Hero-glyphics,” it’s not too far fetched to picture some of the world’s most beloved comic book and sci-fi characters mingling with Egyptian deities.
“I came up with the idea by reading too quickly,” Ln told Crave. “Usually a curse, but this time I read ‘hieroglyphics’ as ‘heroglyphics,’ and then I began daydreaming of how cool that would be and which heroes would find themselves carved on ancient walls.”
“I did a lot of research on ancient Egyptian art… [Read more]
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Beats Music launched with a lot of fanfare today, but you may have noticed that its promised Windows Phone client is missing. What happened? As it turns out, the app is just fashionably late — Beats’ Ian Rogers says that the Windows Phone edition …
After a year of hype, Beats Music is finally here, and if it has a definitive pitch, the company’s frenetic, towheaded CEO Ian Rogers served it to me over blaring punk music in a Lower East Side bar last week. "I’ve got [legendary producer] Jimmy Iovine calling me on the weekend and saying, "What the hell is this playlist?"
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It makes perfect sense. Burning buildings are very dangerous places for people to enter, so when there’s a fire that needs to be put out, why not recruit robots to do the dirty work?
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Veho is perhaps mostly known for its range of accessories — so when we tested its entry into the (already busy) action cam market, we were pleasantly surprised by how good it was. Fast-forward to today, and it appears it’s looking to build on that …
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