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The Ugly Carpets of Vegas are Hideously Clever Social Engineering at Work [Imagecache]

Something this horrific can't possibly be an accident. I mean, it takes genius to come up with something so offensive to the eye. Sure enough, the crazily appalling carpets that adorn Vegas casinos are designed to keep you gambling. More
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Canon’s Omnidirectional Camera Is a 50 Megapixel Eye That Looks Everywhere at Once [Canon]

Panoramic photography can be tricky. What's better? Canon's camera that shoots a single, 360° image. The tech uses a giant, 50 megapixel CMOS sensor and aspheric mirror to capture a sharp, sweeping photo, exceeding the human eye's measly 120° view. More
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Shooting Challenge: R&R [Photography]

Labor Day Weekend is almost upon us, which means that I'm putting you to work. This week's Shooting Challenge is to capture R&R. More
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The World’s New Fastest SDHC Memory Card [Memory]

Reading at a maximum of 95MB/s and writing at 80MB/s, the new Toshiba SDHC UHS-I memory cards are the fastest in the world. Now, good luck finding a camera that can saturate that kind of bandwidth. More
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NASA History Captured In Strange and Beautiful Photograph Collection [Nasa]

That? That's the Gossamer Penguin, an experimental solar-powered aircraft cruising above a dry lakebed at NASA Dryden's Flight Research Center in July 1979. It's just one of the many strange, spectacular images of NASA's early days now available online. More
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This Is How iOS 4.1 HDR Photos Look In Reality [Apple]

Apple's iOS 4.1 will give us the ability to take HDR photos with our iPhone devices, but how will those photos look? We spent some time with the iOS 4.1 Gold Master and found out. More
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Strobox Pairs Photographs and Their Lighting Schemes [Photography]

If you're a photography student, formally or informally, learning about lighting schemes is one of the trickier and more time consuming aspects of study. Strobox pairs user-submitted photographs with lighting diagrams to help you learn how lighting schemes impact the final photo. More
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DIY FlashBender Is a Cheap and Flexible Flash Modifier [Photography]

If you're looking for a lightweight flash modifier for your camera you'd be hard pressed to find a DIY option more flexible—literally and figuratively—than this DIY FlashBender. More
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69 High Velocity Wallpapers [Photography]

You accelerate, hit maximum velocity and the world blurs. Whether you're driving a sports car alone or a moped packed with your entire family, this week's Shooting Challenge participants always made the experience epic. The results: More
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With Expanded Size Comes Greater Light-Gathering Capability, in Canon’s "World’s Largest" Sensor [Cameras]

As well as popping out news of a massive 120 megapixel sensor last week, Canon's technicians have today announced its biggest ever CMOS sensor—which measures 202 x 205 mm. That's about eight inches square.
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