Archive for the ‘Digital Camera’ Category

Robot That Takes Panoramic Pictures

Sunday, October 14th, 2007

Carnegie Mellon University announced a $300 robot designed to easily enable people to create super-high-resolution panoramic pictures--and a Web site to let anyone in the world dive into them. The GigaPan robot, built by Charmed Labs, can accommodate most compact cameras and is designed to be relatively inexpensive, said Illah Nourbakhsh, ...

Three Samsung Mobiles Into Guinness Book

Monday, September 3rd, 2007

According to The Korea Herald, Three of Samsung Electronics Co.'s mobile phones made it into the Guinness Book of World Records. i) The Ultra Edition 5.9, which is only 5.9 millimeters thick, or less than 0.2 inches, has been named the world's thinnest phone. ii) The Ultra Edition 8.4 was included in ...

Bridging The Virtual And Real Worlds Using Camera Phones

Monday, August 20th, 2007

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh are turning to camera phones to help bridge the virtual and real worlds, using image-matching algorithms. Invisible art works adorn buildings around Edinburgh This project is known as Spellbinder. Using image-matching algorithms the researchers have found a way to adorn the real world ...

Digital Finger Prints in ‘Harry Potter And Deathly Hollows’ Leak

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Harry Potter fans all over the world could not wait to get their hands on the latest release Deathly Hollows which was released on 21st. But a few days before the release, someone leaked a the book by photographing each and every page with a digital camera and making it available ...