Category: Technology

Komamura Horseman 3D Film Camera

New 3D Camera 

Oh man, this is sweet! Twin 38mm f 2.8 lenses, shutter speeds from bulb, 8 seconds to 1/1000, rear curtain shutter flash sync, and 20 exposures on a roll of 36 are just a few very cool features of this camera. It even has an LCD on the back to give a read out on your settings. Oh yeah, it even spots full manual or AE shooting. And to top it all off you get a high quality stereo viewer included with your camera. With a price of $5000USD will keep this beauty out of the hands of all but the most dedicated stereo enthusiasts when it comes out later this year. I one day hope to see an affordable stereo camera with quality lenses on the market again, my 1953 Kodak stereo camera could do with an upgrade.

[via Retro Thing and Gear Live]

Horseman 3D Camera 

New Mexico Spaceport: Open For Business

New Mexico Spaceport
Not quite ready for the Heart of Gold or Eagle One to pay a visit right at the moment, but America’s first commercial spaceport is getting ready for business. In July they will be launching their first small commercial rocket and after that, as they say, the sky is the limit (well someone had to say it).

New Mexico Spaceport: Open For Business

Crusher, UGCV

The Crusher

To heck with UAV, UGCV is the real ticket. If you were wondering where the brains behind the DARAP Grand Challenge robots were destine to end up, it’s in a machine like the ‘Crusher’. Crusher is a 6.5 ton unmanned all terrain vehicle capable of packing loads of 8,000 pounds where it will be needed the most. It’s still years away from being a solders mechanical pack mule of choice, but when is does come into general use it should reduce the amount of casualties in convoys. That is assuming that the robots don’t decide to drive off the wrong direction due to a programming glitch.

[via neat-o-rama]

Engineers Unveil Futuristic Unmanned ‘Crusher’ Vehicle

Insect Eye Could Be Your Next Camera

Bug Eye Micro Lens

This could trump the Apple Big Brother LCD screen:

The eyes of insects such as bees and dragonflies are made up of tens of thousands of tiny components called ommatidia. These all point in different directions to give the insect a very wide field of vision.

Inspired by this, Luke Lee and colleagues developed an artificial compound eye consisting of a moulded polymer resin dome filled with thousands of light-guiding channels, called waveguides, each topped with its own miniature lens.

The artificial eye could be used to create surveillance cameras, cellphone cameras, and surgical endoscopes with a much wider field of vision, the researchers say. The whole eye is 2.5 millimetres in diameter. Each artificial ommatidia consists of a lens attached to a polymer waveguide that directs light towards the centre of the eye.

Sounds like an amazing device.

‘Bug-eyed’ lens takes a broader view

High Speed CMOS Imaging From Sony

I see that a professional camera company has figured out what amateur astronomers have known for a long time. If you take a photo of the same object lots of times, stack them together, pour on a smidg of math and presto! You get a nice sharp photo. I doubt it will hit consumers cameras any time soon but one can wish.

Sony Announces Plans to Develop High-Speed CMOS-Based Imaging System – Emerging Technology

DIY Hologram Kit

DIY Hologram Kit 

This kit allows you to make your own holograms in your own home, even with the lights turned on! You get enough self developing plates to create 20 images so you can let your imagination go and make holograms of just about anyhing. It’s amazing just to thing that 20 years ago doing this at home required more equipment just to dampen the vibrations than parts that come in this kit to make the entire ‘gram.

[via OhGizmo!]

DIY Hologram Kit