Here’s a fun concept Digital Camera “Lens” cup that let you enjoy your morning coffee in photographic style.  Of course, it’s a rather waste of an expensive camera lens but then you could make these with broken lenses that are going to the dump anyways.

“Photomanipulation тебе интересно Photography fun art lens coffee cup photoshop chop conceptual design”.

via make, Design Page

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Google has just launched its new Mobile GoogleMaps that includes Street View.  Now you can see the street view on your Blackberry or PDA just like the destop version.

Today we’re launching a new version of Google Maps for mobile with the same street-level imagery available on desktop. Wondering if the restaurant in your search results is the one you’re thinking of? Just click “Street View” after your search to see the storefront. Unsure about a complicated intersection in your directions? Use Street View to see a photo, so there’s no mistaking your turn. You can also launch Street View from any address where we have photography, or simply by clicking on the map and selecting “Street View”. You can browse Street View overlaid on the map or in full screen, rotate your view to see more of your surroundings, and move along the street.

Download GoogleMaps Mobile here

via Blog Network, Google Mobile Blog

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Here’s an interesting photography hacking tool.  Basically the image fulgurator inserts messages onto other people’s photos by displaying the letters at the exact moment the innocent photographer’s flash goes off.

Kind cool for sending messages in a tourist attaction.

It’s a reactive flash image-projector… or, to put it another way, a real-world hack of other people’s photos. Sounds sinister, looks sinister… works great. Adapted from a flash gun and an old SLR, it senses the flash of someone’s camera, and then quickly illuminates itself, projecting images or text onto the object that was being snapped. The video of bemused tourists in Berlin, peering in confusion at the screen of their digicams is priceless.

via gizmodo

Here’s a pretty simple DIY for making your own light box for photo shoots.

This thing isn’t really rocket science at all. I think it’s more the technique that people would be interested in. I’ve received a lot of e-mails asking about the light box so I hope this will be a help to anyone wanting to stay inside during the winter months and take shots of random stuff from the fridge.

via jyoseph

In recent post by Lifehacker, it seems that you can get a better picture simply by photographing small items with your flat-bed scanner, which I have one too.

This is a very good idea to try out and probably works but do you have a scanner?

Cell phones, mp3 players, discs, pretty much anything with a basic dimension can be scanned on your flatbed scanner…. To the right is a sample of a phone that was scanned. Not bad eh? What the…..is that me in my tighty whiteys reflected in the screen!?!? Oh nope, wait, it was done using my flatbed scanner.

via LifeHacker

Wow, these guys know how to make use of Flickr API. Here’s a 3D Tiltviewer that let’s you hop different Flickr pictures in 3D!

TiltViewer allows you to browse Flickr’s most interesting images in a 3D space. Images are pulled from Flickr’s Interestingness list.

TiltViewer was built using Away3D, a branch of Papervision. Currently Away3D provides better handling of mouse events for nested 3D Objects. One limitation of Away3D is that there is no access to a 3D object’s sprite, so you can’t apply filter or alpha effects. I’m guessing that soon these features will be added to both engines.

Does a 3D UI give more functionality than the equivalent 2D interface? No, but its certainly a lot cooler! Part of the motivation to build this was to explore ways to make 3D interfaces simple and intuitive.

Being able to load Flickr images into a 3D engine was recently made possible when Flickr added crossdomain XMLs to it’s image servers. Thanks Flickr!

via airtightinteractive

This is a great device which will allow the photographer to geo tag your photographs without any of the hassle that can be involved in this sort of process.

This is a GPS receiver which uses the satellite network to get a precise fix on a location, this is then embedded into the code of the jpeg, which is just brilliant, and unfortunately this only supports jpegs.

Priced at $99.

Source [News]

This is a great combo, not only do you have the digital camera, but like a Polaroid camera it actually prints the images that you take while you wait.

Features:

7 Mega pixel CCD with 3x Optical Zoom
Multiple capture/scene modes and flash modes
2.0″ indoor/outdoor colour display
SD memory cards
2″ x 3″ borderless, high quality photos
Uses ZINK™ Paper. Available in sticky-back
Integrated, rechargeable battery

Prices are around $200

Source [Gadgets 4 Fun]

This tiny little camera as you can see will fit into the pack of chewing gum, great for taking those little sneaky spy shots or 176 x 144 video in 3GP format, so it could literally be placed anywhere!

These are really basic cameras which have just the minimum of features needed to function properly, but it does have a 2 GB Micro SD slot which comes in very handy for images and video shots.

The price of this beauty is going to be around $101

Source [Gizmodo]