If you live in Russia and drive a car, there may be a higher-than-average chance that you have a dashcam (video camera in your car) and that it’s running all the time. Well so goes the stereotype at any rate! But if you’re in the market for a dash cam, read on for our review of an excellent video camera, the DR32.
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British electronics & accessories maker, Veho, has a neat gadget called the Muvi X-Lapse that allows you to take panoramic time-lapse photos. I had a chance to test one out courtesy of accessories seller, MobileFun.
The X-Lapse itself is a fairly small, circular gadget that you can hold easily in one hand. By holding, the bottom white portion with the time markers, you can twist the upper black portion until you get to the amount of time and coincidentally the # of degrees of panorama you’d like to shoot. It’s hard-coded, so to speak, to go 360° in 1 hour, and similarly, 180° in 30 minutes, etc.
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Have you ever wanted to catch that person you suspect is snooping around your office? Peek in on the cleaning lady while you’re away? Or check up on the kids while at work or out for the night?
There are many options available to choose from when selecting a video surveillance system. Professional surveillance systems can cost hundreds of dollars. Or you could just try out many of the free and low cost downloadable software applications available for use with everyday web cameras.
Since webcams are affordable and easy to connect, it’s a great place to start with a DIY home or office surveillance project. Some of the best downloadable webcam software is available as freeware or comes in under $70. …
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I recently tested out Smarthome’s Wireless Security IP Camera. This compa
ct video camera can be set on a table or shelf or even mounted to a wall and controlled from your web browser or an INSTEON smartphone app.
Installation didn’t take more than 30 minutes, but could have been quicker if it did a better job of identifying the wireless AP.
It has a resolution of 640×480, and night vision up to 26 ft, and I wasn’t expecting the clarity in either day or night mode to be as good as it was. I thought it would be more grainy, and the infrared night vision is surprisingly clear. The video comes in at 30 fps and wasn’t so choppy to be annoying, although not quite TV-smooth.
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Many people leave their gorgeous smartphones at home when heading to other countries and/or take cheap phones so that they don’t risk losing them. But have you thought about how your smartphone, especially its camera, could help you out when you travel?
Here’s how and when your phone’s camera (especially if it’s a good 8 Megapixel camera say on one of the latest Samsung phones or the new iPhone 4S) can be useful to you.
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Now that memory cards are no longer the tiny, pricey luxury enjoyed by the few, manufacturers are looking for new ways to differentiate themselves from the rest of the pack. Samsung thinks it has found a way – create SD-type cards that are supposedly waterproof, shock and shatterproof and magnetic proof.
I took an 8GB microSDHC card for a spin, and really only cared about one test in particular – whether or not it’s water proof. In case you’re wondering, I figured that the risk from magnetism-caused data loss was pretty low, and as for being able to survive being run over by a car, if I’m in a situation where I pull out my memory card and it gets run over by a car soon after, I’m doing something wrong and have more to worry about than the survival of my SD card.
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It’s summer 2011 and the battle for the king of tablets just got even more heated. As announced back in February, HP has released their webOS based TouchPad tablet, bringing the popular underdog mobile OS platform to the tablet world. This is great news for Pre and webOS fans everywhere as the platform gets a shot at making a comeback (although is it a comeback if you never technically left?).
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Despite what seems like a glut of photo sharing services on the Web, there’s still room for one more. Recently, we featured Yogile whose slant is to gather photos from multiple people from an event in one spot. PhotoCollect is a similar idea.
PhotoCollect offers the ability to invite your friends via Facebook or e-mail, while you the administrator of the shared album can set up different permissions for the album. You can tag people in photos and even share videos.
PhotoCollect is free with unlimited storage for up to 3 albums, while a premium account costs #35/year (thank you cheap cloud storage!).
Released in August 2010, the Canon 60D digital SLR camera became an immediate favorite among both entry-level and advanced photographers. Both in design and features, it is definitely a step up from the 50D. I was able to test this camera and overall, I was very impressed with both its performance and its feel. Let’s take a look at some of the 60D’s features.
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The Samsung SH100 is a pretty standard, but quality, Wi-Fi digital camera. It packs an impressive 14.2MP, has 5x optical zoom and takes MicroSD and SDHC cards.
But it’s also got a hidden secret. Download the associated Android app for your smartphone and you can control the camera over WiFi using your phone, take photos with it and even view your photos afterwards.
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