Category: Tech

  • Concept: visualize the contents of a hard disc

    Concept: visualize the contents of a hard disc

    Your hard disk drive is a black box in more meanings than one. Wouldn’t it be pleasant to be able to directly visualize its contents? That is the core of the following proposal: an external hard disc drive whose surface is covered by an OLED screen used to display a treemap contents like it’s done…

  • HD-DVD season’s sales

    As everybody is starting to understand that Blu-Ray won the Hirez battle for the next generation DVD format, the other contender is seeing its products dumped en masse on eBay. If you (still) want to buy a HD-DVD player, it’s your lucky day. Go to eBay auction outfit and you’ll find dozens of players for…

  • HDR photography, a few links

    HDR photography, a few links

    HDR photography (High Dynamic Range Photo) is a process where you take several photo pictures with very different exposures (different speeds or different apertures) and then use a software to pack them into one image packing the whole range of light. The result is often a little erie but allows to take images impossible to…

  • Forgotten technology: Sound mirrors

    Forgotten technology: Sound mirrors

    Did you know that, before the actual deployment of radar, the localisation of flying planes was done by listening to them? With a good sound mirror, you could hear the motor of a plane from very far. And a sound mirror is essentially a wall able to reflect sound (like in a subway station or…

  • Improve your photos, without effort and without Photoshop

    … the day dream of all photographers. Instead of spending your nights playing with the setups, knobs and buttons of Photoshop (are any other similar software package), why not simply go through a process full automated, effortless, questionless, and with a nice little result? ImproveYourImages.com To be tested right now.

  • X-rays of celebs and stars

    X-rays of celebs and stars

    The stars of show business and other stars are chased all around the world by paparazzis. Sometimes even catch them in X-ray photos. Here are the evidences: Pamela Anderson Homer Simpson Mickey Mouse

  • The old table cloth trick, both ways

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  • Poor man’s camera accessories

    Poor man’s camera accessories

    I recently stumbled upon several good ideas for the photographer (and cinematographer) with a limited budget. They seem quite simple and interesting to apply. Ring Flash for a penny For macro-photography and proxi-photography, a flash is often needed. But it is difficult to obtain a nice light not simply coming from the side (and casting…

  • A nice battery charger (dual and universal)

    Wouldn’t you be tempted by a battery charger, adaptable to all sources (110V, 220V, 12V car plug), ready to receive simultaneously two battery types, and virtually any kind of photo battery? Delkin Dual Universal Battery Charger does it all. Furthermore, it was designed to receive interface plates for different battery types that, instead of shooting…