So if you’ve been reading here at all for a while, I’m a Ferrari and F1 fan. 

This weekend in Sonoma California there was the Ferrari Challenge, the series where they race 355s and also do runs with the FXX race series (they’re the Enzo in race shape,, amazing!).  There were also vintage races as well (separated by drum and disk brakes).

It was a great event and I finally got to see actual recent F1 cars in person and all the accompanying technology with them.

The really cool part is that the Piloti Corsa group was there(Ferrari’s in house group they send whenever someone with one of their old F1 cars goes out and drives).  It felt really cool to see a bunch of Italians (they were kind of stand-offish, I asked how the plane trip over was and got the “my english no good” from one of the engineers, so I didn’t push it) all in Ferrari Red (and their cool Puma white mechanics gloves, it was really cool. I don’t think they wear anything more than once, they were all so red and clean.)

to get to see all the gear that they use was awesome!  The lifts, the telemetry laptops, and all the air guns were awesome (there, gadgets, its an official post).

Go look at my flikr post here, there are a ton of pics I took so go check them out!

As we don’t get F1 out here on the west coast someday I’ll make it to Indy, Montreal, or Monaco, it was the next best thing. I can’t wait for next year!

Red eye. What a pain in the ass. I have so many great photos in my iPhoto Library which have been ruined because of red eye. Sometimes I use the red eye tools iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop to fix problematic images, but unfortunately they don’t always do a good job.

Luckily red eye is very easy to fix manually in Adobe Photoshop (US, UK). You just need to know how. Here’s a tutorial on how to remove red eye using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher.

Tutorial: Remove Red Eye In Adobe Photoshop

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The second digital cameras became popular; your basic Polaroid land camera became the 8-track tape deck of the new millennium. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, Polaroid executives began to branch out and embrace the digital age. Sure, they still make instant print film for those who can’t give up their habit of flipping a photo back and forth to make it dry. But Polaroid also now makes digital cameras, printers, dvd players, digital photo frames, digital, Printers, Scanners … just about ANYTHING with the word digital in it!
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Have you ever had to ask that stranger in a strange land to take a picture of your family for you, wondering if they were going to run off with your new digital camera? Well, the Quik Pod extendable handheld “tripod” makes taking those once in a lifetime pictures that much easier. I have no clue why nobody thought of this great idea sooner. I’m always turning the camera around to take a shot of my beautiful mug. Now with the Quik Pod I might actually get a decent picture out of the deal.

For $29.95 you can get a Quik Pod, carry bag, hiking clip, pocket clip, wrist strap and adapter legs. You can use it underwater snorkelling or at concerts stuck behind a guy with a large head or just about anything else you can think of…that’s not illegal! Read the rest of this entry »

If you take a lot of digital pictures, and want to simplify the process, the answer is the new groundbreaking Ultra® II SD™ Plus Cards from SanDisk. These flash memory cards can turn into an USB adapter and plug directly to your USB port, eliminating the need to carry an extra cable.

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The D-Flector may look like a regular briefcase, but it’s much more than that. If you need to take a perfect shot of that product you want to sell in eBay, the D-Flector Portable Photo Studio is a great solution. All you need to do is open the case and put it on the top of a desk with your product on it. When you take a picture, the reflective background illuminates with the flash, giving you an ideal white background for your product. The photo will look like it was taken in a professional studio, just like the product shots you see in magazines and on the Internet.

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If you ever wanted to offer the coolest digital camera to your kids but always feared that they would break it in an instant, may I present you the Kid-Tough Digital Camera that can last forever due to the durable design and material used.

This special camera comes with a couple of good features, but on the other hand there are some bad features as well that will limit the usage of the camera.

Good

• Makes kids feel good because the camera has a colorful LCD screen measuring 1.3-inches, every time a photo is taken there is a preview that can be seen on that small screen
• Easy for kids to use thanks to the big sized buttons, each with a specific color and meaning, making it simple for kids to understand

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Sometime ago we already covered an innovative printer from Toshiba that could write on the same sheet of paper over and over again (read here). This new inkless printer will follow the same principle, using plastic paper with thermal properties that react to different temperatures. The novelty is that the printer is really small and it will possibly be integrated into mobile phones and digital cameras. Read the rest of this entry »