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A couple of days ago, I pointed readers towards Project Glass, an interesting--if perhaps a little stereotypically geeky--project from Google. Project Glass aims to create an augmented reality, heads-up display device suitable for use by the general public.

In our earlier article I linked to Google's official concept video, which suggested a variety of possible uses for a...

Kevin J. Weir’s animated photo GIFs are something out of an Edgar Allen Poe ghost story. Like half remembered nightmares, you just can't shake off these moving photographic hauntings that linger in the mind. 

Weir is a student at Richmond, Virginia’s, VCU Brandcenter graduate program in advertising and he's spent a good deal of time in peripatetic exploration of the...

Tired of hunting through your camera bag for where you put the spare camera batteries? Pockets full of flash cards? Does the lost socks fairy seem to have branched out into abducting strobe gels as well? If so, the folks at Think Tank Photo have a new line of products aimed at helping you reduce your photo gear clutter.

The DSLR Battery Holder 2 and DSLR Battery Holder 4...

Smartphones have taken over as the daily snapshooter for a lot of folks, but there are still plenty of situations where your smartphone can't replace a dedicated camera. A new camera case from Concord Keystone aims to negate the dedicated camera's advantage in one of these areas: underwater.

The Concord Keystone ECO™ MarineCase is a waterproof case for Apple's iPhone 4...

There are lots of apps that produce zany toy camera effects when shooting with your iPhone but here's something slightly more whimsical: a case that fits over your Apple phone with nine plastic Holga camera lens filters.

Just spin the wheel on the Holga iPhone Lens case and choose the filter you want, including one that creates the "Holga Hole" vignette effect;...

Last February, Olympus announced its first OM-D series Micro Four Thirds camera, the Olympus E-M5. Like the PEN-series cameras before it, the retro-styled Olympus M5 draws a parallel with an iconic product line from the company's history: the film-based OM-series cameras. Featuring what Olympus claimed to be the world's fastest autofocus system coupled to the world's first...

The Camera Table Dolly is a high-tech skateboard adapted for shooting digital video with a DSLR. A cleverly designed variation on an adolescent’s street speeder, the Table Dolly solves one of the biggest problems facing HD video shooters: picture jiggle and bounce.

It is a frustrating problem that happens whenever I shoot videos of moving subjects. Not wanting to pan the...

Panasonic has today announced the Lumix DMC-GF5 compact system camera, a new model that revisits the design of its earlier GF3 model, and makes refinements in a number of areas.

Most significantly, the Panasonic GF5 has a new image sensor and processor combo. Sensor resolution is unchanged at twelve megapixels, but the GF5's imager has lower-profile, better-positioned...

If you remember floppy disks -- or even if you don't -- you'll dig these snazzy coasters designed like those once ubiquitous storage disks.

Though "floppies" could hold only a few kilobytes of data back in the day, these wooden coasters provide ample room for a cup of coffee, cold drink, or cocktail of your choice.  The coasters are 3.25 x 3.25 inches and made of laser...

For a while now, rumors have swirled that tech giant Google was working on its first wearable computing device. Today, the company confirmed the truth in these rumors--and true it must be, because April Fool's is well and truly over--showing off an early prototype of its augmented-reality glasses, developed under the codename "Project Glass".

Although the rumor mill...

Honestly, cameras are objects of beauty and desire as much as they are working tools for photographers. Now there’s a new website gallery called Prism Yard, where the elegance and beauty of the camera is enthusiastically celebrated.

There are dozens of gorgeous images of cameras, old and new, at Prism Yard, provided to the site by owner/photographers from around the...

If you've been holding your breath waiting for an app that does photo ebooks on the iPad, you can now exhale. 58 North has just released Pholium, with which you can create and publish your own photos in an ebook.

We gave it a try yesterday and had a ball. It's elegant interface makes it easy to use and gets out of the way so you can play with the images you place on the...

The rest of the world joined the Instagram party yesterday after the popular photo editing and sharing app made the jump to Google's Android mobile operating system. So with Apple iPhone and Android smart phone users all now transforming their forgettable phone pics into funky filtered masterpieces, here's a fun way to bring them into the real world: turn them into...

If you know an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch owner, there's a fair good chance you also know an Instagram user. The photo sharing app--known for its lo-fi filter effects and the square aspect ratio of its images--has proven incredibly popular on Apple's iOS platform. Apple has sold a total of some 298 million units between the three devices worldwide, and Instagram now boasts...

In addition to testing the Leica M9-P camera, we managed to put the $4,000 Leica 50mm f/1.4 Summilux through its paces in the SLRgear test lab. Click here to read our full review of this lens!

Photographer Binh Danh prints his photos on leaves he gathers from his mother’s garden. They are fragile, brittle images of an imagined life in the chaos of post-war Vietnam that uniquely combine photography and organic materials.

In 1979, Danh’s parents were among thousands of refugees fleeing the turmoil of Southeast Asia. He was two at the time, too young to remember...

Canon has just announced the EOS 60Da, a followup to the EOS 20Da model released way back in 2005, incorporating improvements made in the many intervening years. Like that camera, the EOS 60Da is aimed at astronomers, and is closely related to an existing model: the Canon EOS 60D.

Beyond the new model number, the most notable difference from the standard model is a...

While Canon's previous megazoom digital camera was a good performer, the PowerShot SX40 HS is a finely tuned upgrade. With the same startling 35x zoom ranging from 24-840mm equivalent, the Canon SX40 sports a new, lower-resolution sensor and a punchy DIGIC 5 processor, resulting in better low light performance and better corner sharpness overall, as well as reduced...

Airline surcharges: There aren't a lot of things everyone agrees upon these days, but we don't know anybody outside the airlines who's in favor of them. Every time you turn around, it seems another obscure fee has been added to the laundry list that you're presented with when you arrive at the airport, and one in particular that gets our goat is the checked bag fee.

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