Join Vivitar 690HD Digital Video Recorder
Vivitar calls its 690HD camera a DVR. This is an abbreviation for Digital Video Recorder, but it has nothing to do with what your TiVo does.
The Vivitar 609HD is a handheld camera that looks like it should be held horizontally, but it is best used vertically as the user can see the 2-inch preview screen.
I got a chance to try it out, and the video is good for 1280 x 720 HD, 640 x 480 VGA, or 320 x 240 QVGA. The frame-rate is good for 25fps, 30fps, and 30fps, respectively. The camera is also capable of still shots, but I don’t have any word on the number of Megapixels.
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Motion capture technology improved by Carnegie Mellon and Disney
I recently saw some footage of how Disney made their film Mars Need Moms. It showed Seth Green in a skintight suit with dots all over his face and small balls in certain places on his body.
Too bad Mars Needs Moms was such a flop, but Disney is working with Carnegie Mellon to create a new system of motion capture. It works by placing cameras all around the actors, which enables them to give a virtual performance from anywhere.
Normally, actors have to be in rooms with greenscreens, so the backgrounds can be put in later. This new method takes about 24 cameras to create this effect, and it is a great timesaver. For example, if you want a scene where someone does some physical motion, this new mo-cap system can get all the data, and the director can tweak it later.
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Vision Phantom v-Series digital high-speed cameras
Vision has introduced a couple of additions to their Phantom v-Series digital high-speed camera family – coming in the form of the Phantom v1210 and v1610 (as seen above). These are top of the line cameras, touted to be the fastest 1-megapixel digital high-speed cameras in the world. You will be able to snap high definition and widescreen photos at 1,280 x 800 resolution, thanks to the CMOS sensors.
The Phantom v1610 has been touted to be 60% faster compared to any other camera that is currently on the market, where with it, you are able to acquire over 16,000 frames-per-second (fps) at full resolution as well as up to 1,000,000 fps at reduced resolution. Now how’s that for performance, huh? Surely you cannot find anything speedier than that out there.
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Lorex LiveSense Baby Monitor
I suppose that Lorex’s LiveSense LW2401 is meant to be a Baby Monitor, but honestly, it can be a lot more than that.
The LW2401 allows the user instant video, and it comes with a camera and a 3.5 inch monitor. I got a chance to try it out, and I didn’t have to do any calibration or anything. The moment I turned the devices, they were paired.
From there, I had a baby monitor as well as any type of video monitoring for my home. I could even record the video on a microSD card, which was included in the package. The microSD card came with an adapter, as well as a USB cable for downloading to a computer.
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Blind Camera takes other people’s photos
This is the “Blind Camera”. I realize that this sounds like an oxymoron, until you realize what it does.
This camera doesn’t allow you to take a picture, but it will show you other people’s pictures. How it works is this: you push a button, and the Blind Camera shows you other pictures take at your location.
I don’t know how it can pluck all photos from the Internet and produce a few taken at the user’s exact spot, but I would imagine that a GPS is involved in some way. It doesn’t have any lens, sensor, or optics.
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Sony DSC-TX55 digital camera does 3D with single lens
When it comes to the world of digital cameras, there are plenty of models to choose from where the entry level and mid-range segments are concerned. With that many to choose from, just which model should you part with your money for? Sony might have a new candidate that will suit your needs (and wallet) when it is released later this September for $350, coming in the form of the Sony DSC-TX55 digital camera from the Cyber-shot range.
Boasting an exceptionally slim and stylish form factor, the new Sony DSC-TX55 Cyber-shot camera will feature a bunch of new new technologies, where among them include “By Pixel Super Resolution” technology that will boost the camera’s zoom range to a virtual 10x. Of course, many people might think that this would result in a loss of quality, but Sony’s effort would let you zoom in on the action from afar without losing quality even at the image sensor’s maximum resolution (16.2 million pixels).
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Takara Tomy’s “First Digital Camera” for toddler shutterbugs
If you have young kids, then you know that they love mobile gadgets as much as we do. Recently, my four-year-old son has discovered my wife’s digital camera on her cellular phone, and it has quickly become his favorite toy.
Of course, my four-year-old son’s hands aren’t always the cleanest, nor is he the most careful. Fortunately, Takara Tomy has created the “First Digital Camera” made exclusively for his age group.
As you can see, the “First Digital Camera” is like any other toddler toy with bright colors, big buttons, and embellished with cartoon characters. It has a 1.44 inch LCD and an image sensor of 3 Megapixels, and is capable of up to 99 photos.
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Sony HDR-PJ50 is both a camcorder and projector
When I saw this pic of the Sony HDR-PJ50, I was not surprised. After all, it isn’t the first time I have seen a projector on a camera. Nikon did this with the Coolpix S1000pj, and 3M did this with Shoot and Share camera as well.
The projector of the HDR-PJ50 is able to project an image of 60-inches on any flat surface, but you are probably going to have to be in a very dark room.
Then there is the usual feature of a 1920 x 1080 HD video and an unusual feature of a built-in 220GB hard drive. As you might have guessed, it is good for memory sticks or SD cards. It also has a built-in 220GB hard drive, so you can catch a lot of video.
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