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Canon 5D Mark II shoots incredible stop motion movie [video]

July 26th, 2010 9:30am Lee J. No comments

Canon 5D Mark II shoots incredible stop motion movie

The video may be called “Guy Walks Across America,” but it seems he didn’t literally cover every step, but what the hell: it’s still a great piece of creative cinematography, and nicely shows off what the current generation of Canon dSLRs are capable of.

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Apple’s FaceTime videos: barf bag required

July 12th, 2010 12:00pm Lee J. 5 comments

There’s no doubting that Apple has created some tremendous adverts over the years – even the hideously smug “I’m a Mac” adverts were hugely effective – but this latest batch advertising the FaceTime feature on the iPhone 4 really is scraping the barrel o’cheese.

If you can sit through these four slabs of mawkish, crass, sentimental attempts to sell you a luxury, high end product through cheap emotional manipulation you surely have a stronger stomach than us.

Click on for the worst adverts we’ve ever seen from Apple.

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Google gets down with Grandmas for some video chat

July 2nd, 2010 10:30am mike s No comments

Google gets down with Grandmas for some video chat

We’re rather partial to Google’s quirky promo videos, and this latest one is certainly more offbeat than most.

Titled, “Introducing the Grandmother’s Guide to Video Chat,” the 1.45 min cartoon tries to explain to crumblies how to get up and running with this crazy, new fangled video chat thing.

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Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet offers HD video-conferencing

June 30th, 2010 10:00am Pete Railton No comments

Android-powered Cisco Cius tablet offers HD video-conferencing

Apple may not be keen on the idea of tablets with built in video cameras, but Cisco reckon businesses are going to be mad for it, and have unveiled a 7-inch tablet designed for real-time conferencing and collaboration.

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Swann ThumbCam mini-cam for super-sneaky movies

June 29th, 2010 9:30pm Lee J. No comments

Swann ThumbCam mini-cam for super-sneaky movies

Billed as a “a tiny camera with huge possibilities,” Swann’s diminutive ThumbCam video camera is a mere whisp of a thing, measuring just 2.2” x 0.8” x 0.8” and ideal for all your nefarious recording needs.

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Pro shoots and edits awesome movie on iPhone 4

June 29th, 2010 10:59am Pete Railton No comments

Pro shoots and edits awesome movie on iPhone 4

We figured it would only be a matter of time before someone got to work with the iPhone 4′s vastly improved video recorder and editing facilities to knock out a showcase video, and sure enough one has arrived on the web.

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YouTube – monster, fact-bloated infographic unleashed

May 17th, 2010 11:13am Pete Railton No comments

YouTube - monster, fact-bloated infographic unleashed

Inbetween all the mutual high fiving and backslapping over the site’s remarkable achievement of reaching two billion downloads a day, the bods at Google has managed to put together a very detailed infographic tracing YouTube’s explosive history.

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Palm Pre gets hacked video recording

September 25th, 2009 5:19pm mike s No comments

It’s good to see Palm’s new webOS attracting the attention of developers, hackers, homebrewers and general fiddle-abouters, and it seems that the first signs of video recording are being coaxed out of the Palm Pre.

PreCentral have posted a video showing a video clip taken on the Pre, and although it’s currently restricted to 30fps at 320x480px, the clarity and colour seems pretty good.

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JVC Picsio FM1 pocketcam offers HD recording

September 25th, 2009 2:34pm mike s No comments

With the Flip Mino proving to be a bit of a hot seller, JVC has decided to grab a piece of the pocketcam action, launching its bijou HD video recorder, the PICSIO GC-FM1.

JVC Picsio FM1 pocket cam

The pocket sized point’n'shoot camcorder is available in range of groovy colours and records 1080P Full HD video with the ability to directly upload your footage to iTunes or YouTube.

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First amateur HD video from the edge of space

September 24th, 2009 2:09pm Pete Railton 3 comments

We love this kind of stuff. A bunch of Edmonton radio enthusiasts (that’s Edmonton, USA, not the grimy north London suburb) bodged together a DIY video platform on a balloon and sent it soaring upwards on a mission to film the edge of space.

Bear 4 records edge of space HD video

The mission, dubbed BEAR-4 (Balloon Experiments with Amateur Radio), involved wedging a video camera in a box protected by foam blocks, and hooking it up to five AAA Lithium L91 battery cells to provide nearly four and half hours of footage.

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