Imaging

Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game

3D medical imagery has always been fascinating to me: generating 3D models from film footage is still a fledgling tech, while medical professionals render guts on a daily basis. And sometimes, apparently, connected to Xbox controllers. Researchers at Iowa State University have designed software that can quickly and simply render a detailed 3D model of…

Tech News John Herrman Nov 12

This Is Your Body At The Airport

This isn’t concept art for Dr. Manhattan or CG work for a nude android — it’s the body of a random man, walking through an airport scanner. You won’t meet the person viewing this ultra-revealing image, but still. According to AFP/Getty: A full body scan is pictured on a computer screen at Manchester Airport in…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 13

Software Recreates An Entire City from Tourist Photographs

Using thousands of photographs of the Croatian city of Dubrovnik, a software program has created a beautiful, 3D rendering of the city. It looks like impressionist art, but it represents a major breakthrough in how computers process images. A group of researchers with University of Washington’s graphics and imaging laboratory (GRAIL) wanted to see if…

io9 Annalee Newitz Sep 30

The Strange Life of Creatures Whose Sperm Is Larger Than They Are

Some insects and sea creatures produce sperm that is up to 10 times bigger than they are. Now scientists have used an innovative new x-ray technology to show how this bizarre situation evolved over hundreds of millions of years. It sounds like a genetic aberration, but supergiant sperm can actually be an evolutionary advantage in…

io9 Annalee Newitz Jun 18

130-Megapixel Camera Made From a Run-Of-The-Mill Scanner and an Ancient Lens

The idea of a scanner-made camera is nothing super new, but concocting one which snaps photos at 130-megapixels is pretty amazing. That’s exactly what some Japanese dude with a touch of tech know-how accomplished. Spyuge, the amateur photographer responsible for this DIY gem, says that he took a 1200 dpi Epson GT-S620 scanner, and an…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 9

Researchers Use Cameraphones to Help Develop Mars Imaging Software

Scientists working with the Mars Society have been walking around the Utah desert in spacesuits, snapping photos of the ground in an attempt to develop image recognition software for use on the Red Planet. New Scientist says these researchers are attempting to develop software which can take an image of Mars’ terrain, and identify any…

Space & Spaceflight Adrian Covert Jun 2

Museum Exhibit Explores Rome Through iMacs and Augmented Reality

Visitors to the Allard Pierson Museum will get to partake in an exhibit showcasing ancient Rome through augmented reality. In “A Future for the Past,” a swiveling iMac superimposes buildings and text onto two large pictures/murals. Tricks like this one are not new to advertising, but rarely have we noticed the principles of augmented reality…

Tech News Mark Wilson Apr 13

Barcodes Can Now Hold Entire Videos and Games

It seemed like magic back when barcodes could simply identify a grocery store item. And when QR codes hit the scene, pictures pointed us to URLs. Now “barcodes” have reached the next level of complexity. Mobile Multi-Colour Composite (MMCC) is a 2D barcode technology that can transmit text, video clips, ringtones and games to mobile…

Tech News Mark Wilson Mar 16

Nikon’s D3X Masterpiece DSLR Goes Official With An $8,000 Price Tag

The rumors pointed pretty firmly to it, and then some leaked specs detailed what it’d be like, but now Nikon’s new pro-level D3X DSLR has arrived officially. Touting it as a 24-megapixel “Digital Masterpiece,” with exceptionally low noise sensor, 5fps full-frame shooting speed and with file sizes of 138MB, Nikon’s saying the camera’s available now…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Dec 1

Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

Click to view Okay, so this new moving-photo tech doesn’t have the photo subjects actually dancing about within the frame, but it does allow for objects to have moving/reactive shadows and highlights and it’s zero-powered like an old-fashioned picture.Essentially an object is photographed from multiple angles in different lighting conditions, and a cleverly-processed composite image…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 17

iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account

Normally I’d say digital photo frame, splidgital photo frame…but iGala’s one has a couple of features that make it stand out. It’s an 8-inch touchscreen, with standard 4:3 ratio 800 x 600 pixels so you get less irritating crops or letterboxing, plus its wireless and has 1GB of internal memory. But it’s actually got its…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Nov 13

T-Mobile Cameo: Now Even Your Digital Picture Frame Needs a Cellphone Plan

The Cameo is T-Mobile’s $100 digital picture frame that’s loaded with a GSM cellphone tech. Users, who are willing to fork over $10 a month for a subscription, will be able to snap shots on their phones and have the pictures automagically beamed to their Cameo. For those who ditch out on the subscription, the…

Tech News Mark Wilson Oct 6

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

Scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have come up with this freaky adaptive liquid-lens that can capture 250 in-focus images per second. It’s essentially droplets of water in a pair, trapped in chamber and driven by a high-frequency sound wave to oscillate.As the drops wiggle back and forth, surface tension changes the droplet’s shapes, and thus…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 23

Ricoh R10 Digital Compact Cam is Updated R8, Bigger Screen

Ricoh’s previous-gen R8 digital cam only hit the streets back in February, and it’s now being replaced by the new R10. The R10 has a larger 3-inch screen, 7.1x optical zoom, and a 10-megapixel CCD sensor that can shoot at ISO80 to ISO1600. There’s also four-person face recognition, CCD-shift anti-shake compensation, a 1-cm macro mode…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 19

Fujifilm F60FD Point-And Shoot Has 12 Megapixels, Auto Scene Detection

FujiFilm has just added to its series of FinePix digital cameras with the F60FD, designed for easy point-and-shoot operation. It’s got a 12-megapixel SuperCCD sensor, 3-inch display, mechanical image stabilization and 3x optical zoom. Plus its software lets it do advanced face detection of up to 10 faces for optimum focus and exposure settings, with…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 12

Sony Updates Cybershot Range with Skinny T700 and T77 Cameras

Sony just updated its T-series of Cybershot digital cameras with the DSC-T700 and DSC-T77 models. Both have a 10.1-megapixels CCD, with Carl Zeiss Barrio Tessa optics, including a 4x optical zoom, the “smile shutter” and Bionz image processing engine. The T77, an update on the earlier T70, is apparently the “worlds thinnest touchscreen point-and-shoot camera”…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Aug 7

Scientists Develop Micro Microscope: Fits on a Chip, Costs $10

There’s been a bit of a rush of pocket/USB digital microscopes recently, but none can hold a candle to this development from the clever chaps at Caltech. They’ve done a neat bit of thinking and redesigned how microscopes work: their new optofluidic microscope combines microfluidics and standard chip design, and floats samples over a pinhole-camera-like…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 29

Canon Updates HD Palmcorders With HF11, HG21 Versions

Canon’s AVCHD HF10 camcorder got an excellent reception earlier this year, and now Canon have tweaked it slightly into the upcoming HF11 version. The most important tweaks are doubling the internal storage from 16GB to 32GB and the addition of a 24Mbps high quality MXP imaging mode. Otherwise, most features of the camera remain the…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 22

3R Systems ViTiny Pocket Digital Microscope, for Viewing Pocket Fluff?

Well, it might be for viewing your pocket fluff, if you’ve got a scientific mind and it’s interesting to you. This new ‘scope is a little smaller and more portable than ones we’ve shown before and features 24-90x zoom, a 1.8-inch LCD, 2MB of internal memory and a 300,000-pixel CMOS sensor. If you like exploring…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jun 10

Printoutable Pinhole Cameras: Old, New Imaging Tech Collide

Did you ever do a pinhole camera experiment in school? No? You missed out on some good long-exposure fun. But now you can catch up: the folks at picture agency Corbis have got a bunch of strange designs you can print out, stick to some card and turn into your very own pinhole camera. The…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Apr 2

Your Deteriorating Internal Organs, Reduced to an Xbox Game

This Is Your Body At The Airport

Software Recreates An Entire City from Tourist Photographs

The Strange Life of Creatures Whose Sperm Is Larger Than They Are

130-Megapixel Camera Made From a Run-Of-The-Mill Scanner and an Ancient Lens

Researchers Use Cameraphones to Help Develop Mars Imaging Software

Museum Exhibit Explores Rome Through iMacs and Augmented Reality

Barcodes Can Now Hold Entire Videos and Games

Nikon’s D3X Masterpiece DSLR Goes Official With An $8,000 Price Tag

Harry Potter-ish Photos With Moving Shadows Invented

iGala Wireless Photo Frame Has Touchscreen, Own Gmail Account

T-Mobile Cameo: Now Even Your Digital Picture Frame Needs a Cellphone Plan

Sound Wave-Driven Liquid Lenses Good For Lightweight Future Phones, UAVs

Ricoh R10 Digital Compact Cam is Updated R8, Bigger Screen

Fujifilm F60FD Point-And Shoot Has 12 Megapixels, Auto Scene Detection

Sony Updates Cybershot Range with Skinny T700 and T77 Cameras

Scientists Develop Micro Microscope: Fits on a Chip, Costs $10

Canon Updates HD Palmcorders With HF11, HG21 Versions

3R Systems ViTiny Pocket Digital Microscope, for Viewing Pocket Fluff?

Printoutable Pinhole Cameras: Old, New Imaging Tech Collide

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