Tagged: Camera

Speedy Sony Engineers Build 3 Devices in 5 Minutes(Video)

Sony released several new devices at CES 2013, and they also showed the press a video which they have just made public of their engineers constructing three devices by hand in 5 minutes. The engineers start with a pile of precompiled tools and parts, and they put together the impressive machines (a camcorder, a camera, and their Xperia Z smartphone) in only 5 Minutes....

On the First Day of CES Sony Gave to Me, A Sony Xperia Z

Phones, electronics, and liquid don’t mix. As one person put it yesterday on Google Plus, “Beer + Macbook Pro = tears. I’ve learnt my lesson and keep liquids as far away from my machine as possible”. Sony is setting out to change that among many other things with their brand new Sony Xperia Z, an Android smartphone running Jellybean (4.1 soon to be upgraded...

How To Travel With Your DSLR: 5 Tips

DSLRs are popular for their large sensors, interchangable lenses, and full control of image, but it really sucks if you spend $800+ on a great camera and can’t bring it on your vacation to Rome/Kansas/Your sister’s wedding, so I’ll teach you here and now how to travel with a DSLR. Is travelling with a DSLR possible? Yes. I just took my brand new camera...

Why Facebook Should Hire Teenage Girls

Facebook often seems to be playing catch-up. They released Poke, a video-communication app similar to Snapchat just days ago, and they payed nearly a billion dollars for popular Photo-Sharing app instagram. What do these apps have in common besides the use of the camera? A large portion of their original users were teenage girls. Their biggest partner, Zynga wasted hundreds of millions to buy...

The Day I Pranked the President of Canon Cameras

Recently I was reminiscing with friends about a game we played a few years ago(probably four years). We’d call a company, and see how far up the corporate ladder we could prank call. One of us had the bright idea to prank call Canon. We started with their publicly available corporate office phone number. The first person we got was a secretary, followed by...