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camera stories: 18 news summaries

New 'Spider Pill' Roams Body Hunting Cancer

Camera pill first to be fully remote-controlled

Oct 12, 09 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - It sounds like something out of science fiction, but a tiny robotic spider could save your life. Scientists have created a pill-sized camera that, once swallowed, can deploy mechanical legs and roam the body looking for cancer or other maladies, the Daily Telegraph reports. The “spider pill” is controlled... More »

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cancer • medical breakthrough • camera • robot • pills

 MIT Students 
 Snap Space Pics 
 on the Cheap 

'Project Icarus' sends camera to the stratosphere for under $150

Sep 22, 09 4:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A trio of MIT students managed to take photographs from the edge of space for less than $150, the Guardian reports. The students sent a digital camera and a GPS-equipped mobile phone in a coolbox into the stratosphere by attaching the kit to a helium balloon. They retrieved the photos... More »

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MIT • camera • photography • atmosphere • outer space

 Kodak Shutters Kodachrome 


Jun 22, 09 10:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Kodak is discontinuing its storied Kodachrome film line, the company announced today. Introduced in 1935, Kodachrome was the first commercially successful color film, and was immortalized in a Paul Simon song in 1973. But these days it represents less than 1% of Kodak’s film sales, and only one lab... More »

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film • Kodak • Eastman Kodak • camera • photography

Twitter and Facebook Come to Xbox 360

Microsoft console gets motion-sensor camera, Spielberg to show it

Jun 1, 09 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a bid to make its Xbox 360 more interactive, Microsoft is bringing Twitter, Facebook, Last.fm, a lightning-speed video service, and—brace yourself—a motion-sensing camera that knows who you are just by reading your face to the console, Ars Technica reports. The company even brought in Steven Spielberg... More »

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Paul McCartney • Steven Spielberg • Tiger Woods • Facebook • video game console • camera • Xbox 360 • Beatles • Xbox Live • Ringo Starr • Twitter

(AP) - Spacewalking astronauts gave the Hubble Space Telescope a more commanding view of the cosmos by installing a new high-tech instrument today, then pulled off their toughest job yet: fixing a broken camera. It was the third spacewalk in as many days for the shuttle Atlantis crew, and it was the... More »

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camera • astronauts • space shuttle • repair • Hubble Space Telescope

(Newser) - Microsoft is developing a 3-D camera for its Xbox 360 that would allow users to control games through body movements instead of a remote, the Wall Street Journal reports. Unlike the Wii, gamers would not hold any type of hardware to swing a tennis racket or the like. Insiders... More »

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Microsoft • video game console • camera • gaming • Microsoft Xbox 360 • 3-D • Jay-ZTV • controller

(Newser) - What's Italian for "leadfoot"? A Milanese man going 168mph was busted on four separate highway cameras in less than hour, ANSA reports. He was driving for his employer, whose lawyers argue that he should be responsible for just one infraction. They said they also plan to cite a... More »

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crime • Italy • camera • speeding • driving • highways • speed traps

GOP Cameramen Stalk Dems, Hunting 'Macaca' Moments

Needling questions aim to embarass

Mar 17, 09 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Camera-wielding Republicans are stalking Democratic lawmakers around Capitol Hill, hoping to provoke—and record—a damning, unscripted moment, McClatchy Newspapers report. The National Republican Congressional Committee has been sending video “trackers” to ambush Dems with embarrassing questions, and posting the results online. After watching George Allen destroy his campaign... More »

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Republican • camera • National Republican Congressional Committee • George Allen • political strategy

 Teed-Off Daly 
 Smashes Fan's Camera 

Grumpy golfer loses it with snapper at Australian Open

Dec 11, 08 3:30 AM CST
(Newser) - US Golfer John Daly smashed a snap-happy fan's camera during a tough opening round in the Australian Open, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. After pushing his tee shot on the 9th hole into a clump of trees, the enraged duffer grabbed the camera as the fan tried to take a... More »

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golf • camera • PGA • John Daly • Australian Open

PRODUCT REVIEW

 Finally,  a Real Phone Camera 

Picture-perfect phone closes the shutter on camera phone rivals

Dec 4, 08 10:54 AM CST
(Newser) - Adding a camera to a phone isn't exactly a novel concept, but the Motozine ZN5 breaks the mold by making it a proper digital camera instead of a feeble afterthought, David Pogue writes in the New York Times. For quality, he raves, "the ZN5’s photos trump anything... More »

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technology • cell phones • Kodak • camera • digital camera • Motorola • camera phones • Motozine

 'Grenade Cam' Gives 360° View 

Technology hopes to protect soldiers in urban operations

Nov 18, 08 2:56 PM CST
(Newser) - The British military is developing a small, ball-shaped camera that soldiers can throw like a grenade to get visual information about dangerous surroundings, the BBC reports. The “I-Ball,” which will also be able to be fired from a grenade launcher, transmits a 360-degree image as soon as it’... More »

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intelligence • United Kingdom • camera • war • Ministry of Defence • Britain

Flash! Here's What's New
in Photo Gear

Spy pens, 3-D cameras and new lens technologies on display

Sep 26, 08 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - The biggest photography-gear expo on the globe, Photokina, got under way this week in Germany as manufacturers rolled out everything from state-of-the-art lenses to geotagging devices. Wired takes a look:
  1. Fuji’s FinePix Real 3D System incorporates dual lenses that capture separate images, then meshes them into a single
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technology • camera • photography • digital photography • Top Gear

 Big Brother Sees Washington 

City develops extensive CCTV surveillance network

Jun 16, 08 1:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - If you plan to go outdoors in Washington, DC, comb your hair first, because someone's probably going to see you. The capital is ramping up a video surveillance system that puts most others in the entire world to shame, the LA Times reports. Unsurprisingly, the 5,625-camera network has captured... More »

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terrorism • Washington DC • ACLU • camera • domestic surveillance • Department of Homeland Security • surveillance • CCTV footage

Polaroid Out of Instant-Photo Biz

It will make enough film to last through '09, then turn focus to digital

Feb 8, 08 7:40 PM CST
(Newser) - The Polaroid photo company, whose familiar white-bordered snapshot has become an "icon," is leaving film behind to zoom in on digital equipment, Bloomberg reports. The Massachusetts company was founded in 1937 and in 1948 released the first instant camera, pulling in huge profits—but with the popularity of... More »

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camera • digital camera • consumer electronics • Polaroid

10 Businesses Not Long for This World

Say goodbye to retail categories overtaken by modern reality

Oct 6, 07 2:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - New technology is changing the business landscape as once-profitable ventures like record stores and used book shops close their doors forever. Entrepreneur.com bets against 10 businesses that it says will be extinct by 2017:
  1. Record stores
  2. Camera film manufacturing
  3. Crop dusters
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telemarketing • list • camera • digital camera • record stores • used bookstores

Utah Mine Search Suspended

'We've done all we can do,' expert says after camera fails

Sep 1, 07 3:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - "We've exhausted the options that we know about." That's how mine experts put it to an attorney for the trapped Utah miners' families yesterday, CNN reports.  A camera lowered through a borehole into the collapsed mine at the Candall Canyon site yesterday failed to produce useful information... More »

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camera • mine • miners • Crandall Canyon

Rain Foils Mine Camera Drop

But device should work in normal conditions

Aug 28, 07 12:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - An 8-inch robotic camera’s descent down a 1,415-foot borehole in the collapsed Crandall Canyon Mine was cut short yesterday by several hours of steady rain, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. The weather blocked positioning of equipment needed to drop the camera, as well as preparations for a seventh... More »

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camera • Utah • mine • rescue • Crandall Canyon • mine collapse

Kodak Sets Sights on Flashless Future

New low-light sensor could snap flagging company out of slump

Jun 14, 07 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kodak showed off a new technology today that enables digital cameras to capture clearer pictures in low light—without a flash. Kodak revealed the innovation just as the enduring photography company finishes up its long and costly transformation to digital and begins to tap into its valuable portfolio of patents. More »

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technology • film • images • Kodak • Eastman Kodak • camera • digital camera • photography • digital photography • light sensors • pixels • flash • patent

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