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B&W 35″ x 35″ Contact Print With Complete Dynamic Range? YES.

Spectral Instruments, based in Arizona, just announced a new toy digital back.  Don’t get too excited- it’s just a prototype and only captures in B&W.  Timely announcement, just days after Leica announced their monochrome digital camera. (Gives me a vision … Continue reading

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Visual History of the Microphone

I’m loving these old photos.  This technology still blows me away. http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/01/birth-of-the-microphone?pid=574&viewall=true

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(I’m Glad) These Will Be Everywhere

http://www.tinkeringmonkey.com/square-register-stand  

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Etch-A-Sketch Turns A Negative Into A Positive

Kudos to the Ohio Art (Etch-A-Sketch) Company for having Team Detroit quickly turn their random political mention into a well-executed ad campaign. Coming soon: blue models for the Dems. Genius. http://news.yahoo.com/etch-sketch-launches-ad-campaign-185100178.html http://www.adweek.com/adfreak/etch-sketch-declares-itself-apolitical-new-ads-139270

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Smart Product With A Smart Website

http://www.nest.com/why-we-made-it/index.html

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Nifty “Polargraph” Creation Video

catchy music, too…

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The Future of Consumer Photography Looks AWESOME.

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Too Good to be True? Digitize Your Old 35mm Cameras…

http://www.re35.net/

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Interesting Look at How 8 Year-Old Girls Would Design Laptops

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_laptop_club/

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Kinect Is Much More Than A Gaming System. Yay Technology!

Canadian Doctors Using the Kinect System to Control Digital Imaging Equipment

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