D-Link’s Nightvision Baby Cam Can Play Lullabies For Restless Kids

D-Link's Nightvision Baby Cam Can Play Lullabies For Restless Kids

When you can’t be there in person to help soothe a restless toddler, or you’re just trying to teach them to sleep through the night, D-Link’s new Wi-Fi Baby Camera will let you keep an eye on little ones when you’re away, or don’t want to intervene.

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Samsung’s Got a Nanny Cam That’ll Survive Outside Your House

Samsung's Got a Nanny Cam That'll Survive Outside Your House

When you’re talking about nanny cams—AKA internet connected monitoring cameras—Dropcam is by far the leader. If people have one consistent complaint it’s that the company doesn’t make a camera designed to withstand the elements while it watches over your home outdoors. Samsung to the rescue.

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​Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Review: Small, Fussy, Beautiful

​Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera Review: Small, Fussy, Beautiful

The announcement of Blackmagic’s $3000 RAW-shooting Cinema Camera in 2012 caused such a stir that not many could have anticipated a followup model, so soon, that was a fraction of the cost and a fraction of the size. The Pocket Cinema Camera continues forging the path of the upstart high-end video camera.

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On the side of a building in Madrid, the Spanish artist SpY recently installed 150 CCTV cameras with

On the side of a building in Madrid, the Spanish artist SpY recently installed 150 CCTV cameras with, in the artist’s words, "the intention of not watching over anything." It kind of makes us long for the days when CCTV was the most threatening symbol of the surveillance state. [SpY; StreetArtNews]

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The Second Samsung Galaxy Camera Is Even More Like a Smartphone

The Second Samsung Galaxy Camera Is Even More Like a Smartphone

The Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 adds a host of new smartphone-like features, including an Android bump, NFC, and a new touchscreen.

    



Samsung NX30 Smart Camera adds flexible EVF and new S-line lenses

Samsung has revealed a new smart camera, the Samsung NX30, running the company’s SMART 3.0 software for easy uploads of its 20.3-megapixel images to Dropbox, Flickr, and social networks. Launching … Continue reading

Samsung NX30: Can Sammy’s Mirrorless Shooters Catch On?

Samsung NX30: Can Sammy's Mirrorless Shooters Catch On?

The new Samsung NX30 is an improved reboot of the company’s NX20, a mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera that took beautiful photos but came with its share of foibles as well. The new camera adds a new autofocus system, and some improved hardware. Samsung’s introducing a bunch of new lenses as well. Is it enough to make Samsung’s mirrorless cameras catch on?

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​Samsung Galaxy Camera 2: The Android Franken-Camera Gets Better Brains

​Samsung Galaxy Camera 2: The Android Franken-Camera Gets Better Brains

It’s been more than a year since Samsung released its Android powered Galaxy Camera. And despite our initial skepticism, we were actually impressed that the merger of a mobile device and point-and-shoot camera was so well executed. The weird thing was wonderful, and according to Samsung, it sold pretty well! Which is why the Galaxy Camera 2 is only a lightly modified version of the earlier success.

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This camera stabilizer seems to defy the laws of physics

This camera stabilizer seems to defy the laws of physics

Though it may look fake and unreal and impossible and not allowed on Earth, the camera stabilizer in the video is completely real. You can’t make it shake. It’s like magic decided to defy physics and ignore gravity. All I want to do is park myself in front of a mirror and do as many twists and turns and spins as possible to see if I can get the camera off track. Like this guy.

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In Praise of Imperfection: One Smartphone Camera’s Unpredictably Awesome Results

In Praise of Imperfection: One Smartphone Camera’s Unpredictably Awesome Results

As the year draws to a close, it’s natural to want to look back at all the great gear we tested and used. But amid these near-perfect marriages of hardware and software, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the most …