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The 50 Gigapixel Camera for When You Can’t Get Enough Detail

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Gigapixel Camera

What are the specs of your digital camera? The chances are you have at least a 12 megapixel one. It seems that when it comes to cameras, the higher the megapixels, the better.

While there is some truth to that, do you remember the days when 5 megapixels was more than enough to make people happy? Heck, even my 12 megapixel camera is set to 8 megapixels as default. It’s just that for everyday use, I don’t really find the need for all the detail in my photos. I guess it’s a totally different story of you’re a photographer (aspiring or pro).

Then you might actually want to get your hands on this 50 gigapixel camera. Or not. [Read more…] about The 50 Gigapixel Camera for When You Can’t Get Enough Detail

7 Cool Camera Concept Designs of the Future

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When my sister’s nine-month-old daughter took her first few steps alone, the first thing everyone else did was pull out their digital cameras and video recorders to film and document the entire thing. When our particularly mean boss tripped over his own feet and fell face down on the floor, what some colleagues of mine did (before going over to him and pulling him back up to his feet) was take a photo and privately upload it to our group on a social networking site for a few good laughs.

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Meet Schäuble Junior, Robot With 360-degree Video Camera

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It’s not everyday that you get to hear about a robot that is all-seeing, do you? This is one of those things that we can describe as the stuff that science fiction is all about. Except that this is NOT science fiction. It is real life, and it is happening now.

Schäuble Junior is a robot that has 9 eyes. Well, he may not be a robot in the sense of being a sentient being, or even a semi-sentient being, but Schäuble Junior is nothing but impressive.

360-degree video camera robot
Schäuble Junior

I stumbled upon this creation at Codeninja ((Codeninja’s web site)), where Schäuble Junior is described as:

“multifuncional servo controlled camera array with 9 pan/tiltable cameras, one overhead 360° camera for calibration purposes, 9 microphones, 4 line lasers, pwm-controlled ir-led illumination, speaker with amplifier, arduino controlled, heavily modified 2*4+6 usb port switch” [Read more…] about Meet Schäuble Junior, Robot With 360-degree Video Camera