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Danish electronics company Lumigon has announced a new smartphone that it claims is the first in the world to offer a night vision camera. The Lumigon T3 features three cameras in total; a 13MP rear camera, a 5MP front camera and a 4MP night vision camera that uses what the company describes as a dual infrared flash. Lumigon says the camera can take stills and video in total darkness. The rear 13MP camera uses a dual tone flash, has a phase detection AF system and can shoot 120fps slow-... more

“Put Your Head Into Gallery,” is an unusual interactive art project by Tbilisi, Georgia-based artist... more

Cameras can make the invisible, visible. In this case, the magic of slow motion makes it possible to watch as a bullet smashes through 5 lit light bulbs, tearing through the frame at 62,000 frames per second and sending white-hot filament and shards of powdered glass in all directions.

The video was captured by Taras Kulakov (aka.... more

Tech billionaire Elon Musk famously said recently that he believes there’s a “one in billions” chance that we’re not all living in a computer simulation. This idea of real being indistinguishable from... more

Remember Flag? Back in 2014, the then-nascent idea raised over $150K on Kickstarter to launch a 100% free, ad-supported photo printing service. Today, that dream became an honest-to-goodness smartphone app reality.

The Flag app is here; well, the Flag app... more

Instagram just released version 8.2 of its iOS app. Among the “bug fixes and performance improvements” is a new iOS extension that lets you post directly to Instagram from elsewhere in iOS.

What this means is that you can now upload an Instagram photo directly from your Photos app. Other apps that utilize the built-in iOS share box can now send photos and videos directly to your Instagram account as well.

To get the Instagram option to show... more

At Computex in Taipei recently, Chinese company Weeview Inc. showcased a USB-C dongle that adds another camera to an Android phone, enabling it to record stereoscopic 3D videos. Called Eye-Plug, this camera dongle records content simultaneously with either the rear or front-facing camera integrated in the handset; because it uses USB-C, the dongle can be inserted in either direction. 

A prototype version of Eye-Plug was demonstrated at Computex, and the company will, according to... more

You don’t see that every day. Australian photographer Tim Samuel recently captured a couple of photos the likes of which we feel confident saying you have never seen before. He photographed a fish… trapped inside a jellyfish… controlling the jellyfish... more

A few days ago, we had a crazy flood in Paris. The Seine rose by a whopping 6.10m (20 feet for you imperial friends), overflowing the banks, depriving people of electricity, and flooding buildings, public transports, and businesses. It was a rather destructive flood, especially for cities outside of Paris where entire towns, as I am writing this, are still chest-deep underwater.

While taking the above long exposure shot, the local news came by, and I ended up as... more

The European investment group AURELIUS announced today that it has acquired Calumet Photographic and Bowens Lighting, two well known brands in the world of photography. The sale will... more

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