Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
I must own two of these cameras! I could live with anaglyph stereo vision, I’d much rather have a lift and right image that you would use shutter glasses with but for the price its right. I like how the record buttons can be slaved together, with digital still cameras that can prove to be an annoying problem. I’m looking for a video clip of this, I have to see what the quality is like. I’ll post a link as soon as I find one.
Push the button on the top of the car and the lights come on showing it’s recording sound and video. Once the scene has been shot the kids can hook the car up to a TV and watch what they recorded.
Konami is coming out with a stereoptic viewer adapter named ‘Solid Eye’ for use on your Play Station Portable. From the looks of the translated page it works on the same principal as a classic stereoscope (screen is divided down the center, each side has a slightly different view, and the brain fuses the image into 3D naturally) and works with Metal Gear Acid 2 (coming out in December for apx $50US).
Now I want a PSP so I can display my stereo slides in a cool high tech way.
Konami Introduces 3D PSP Viewer
Translated for your reading pleasure
Now this is one cool camera.
The TORTUGA 5 is the first panoramic pinhole camera (with 5 pinholes) in the world to be produced in small series. After years of development the prototype was ready for serial production which started in summer of 2004.
[via PictureMonkey]
Tortuga 5
A steady camera will allways help a photo look better, no matter what. You can only hold a camera so steady all by yourself, exposures under 1/30 of a second might start to look a little too artistic if your know what I mean. The ‘Pod’ is a clever design, a beanbag with a screwmount on it. Not too bad, I might pick one up and stick it in my camera bag for times when I don’t want to use my UltraPod.
BTW, if you want some advice on how to shoot better video (stills too) head on over to Ninja Team Video and watch an eposode.
These things are so darn cool. I love the idea of telepresence.
Base weight is 2.6 pounds, takes five minutes to assemble, and will loiter on target up to 3-1/2. It has a GPS over lay on its joystick driven control box and it equipped with a visible camera and could use an optional IR camera if you want to shell out the bucks. And speaking of that, this is going to run you about $11,000US!