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Anybody can clip on a camera and call it a life-logger, but startup LifeLogger says its wearable goes the extra mile with its combination of face, text, and even audio … Continue reading

Bruce Macintosh, when he was a first-year student at the University of Toronto, has the idea that eventually, we humans will be able to point a telescope at a distant star, capture a snapshot of a world that is unfamiliar from that of hours, with it being way too far off that even with the existence of warp drives or hyperspace, that far away world would have been impossible to visit. Bruce Macintosh is now Dr. Macintosh, a physicist with Stanford University and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, and he has recently made a trip to a mountain top in Chile and fulfilled that dream of his.

Dr. Macintosh said, “It was pretty astonishing. The first few minutes we were just staring at it and saying ‘Is that little blob real?’” It took 10 years to design and build such a camera that had an extremely specific purpose, so it was a pleasant surprise for Dr. Macintosh and his colleagues to see just how amazing their new device functioned at checking out a planet that lies over 60 light-years away from Earth. This could very well be a watermark event, laying down a marker for the future where we can check out an image of solar systems beyond our own.

Astronomers Reveal New Camera Which Can Photograph Distant Solar Systems original content from Ubergizmo.

For those obsessed with capturing their entire experience from the top of their head, there’s nothing quite like a 360-degree camera. Today at CES 2014 we’re having a peek at … Continue reading

Fujifilm has announced a new weatherproof digital camera called the FinePix S1. The camera has massive 50x optical zoom and features robust image stabilization. Its lens has a 35mm equivalent of 24-1200mm and it has a 1cm super macro mode. That mode allows the camera to focus on objects only 1cm from the lens.

The camera has a 16.4MP resolution using a 1/2.3-inch backlit CMOS sensor, and its 5-axis image stabilization is designed to reduce shake no matter what direction the camera is moving in. The S1 has a fast autofocus speed of 0.14 seconds and a startup time of 0.68 seconds. That means that the camera can get ready and shoot images quickly. It can shoot bursts at up to 10fps.

The rear LCD has variable angles and a razor-sharp 920k dot resolution. Fujifilm also equips the S1 with a time-lapse shooting function that can take an image every 10 min for up to six hours. Other features include HD resolution movie recording, Wi-Fi connectivity, and a number of advanced artistic filters.

Pricing and availability for the FinePix S1 is unannounced.

Joining the newly unveiled Samsung WB350F compact camera unveiled today at CES is the WB2200F, an all-together more hefty super zoom camera with an optical zoom rate of 60x and … Continue reading