After a few interesting Android smartphones Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi has now launched its first tablet. Like its phone counterparts, the Xiaomi Mi Pad has impressive specs at a very reasonable price point. It has a 7.9-inch, 2,048 x 1,536 pixel resolution screen and is powered by a NVIDIA Tegra K1 quad core processor. Learn more
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Fish eye lens perspective when paddling through a submerged forest
I love to paddle the Lonetree Reservoir southwest of Loveland during springtime. You can always enjoy a nice view of Rocky Mountains Front Range. It is a great spot to shoot sunsets over mountains. When water is high I enjoy to paddle through submerged trees and bushes. Please keep in mind that the heron rookery is a restricted area during the nesting season, but there are other places where you can paddle into a forest.
The above picture featuring Sea Wind canoe in cottonwood forest was shot on May 15m 2014 with Canon 5D Mark II camera and Sigma 15 mm Fisheye lens. I confess: I spent a longer while playing with that lens and shooting in both horizontal and vertical.
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Feel the wind on your face and smell the pine sap of the forest as you gaze down at the scenery far below – without ever leaving the ground. ‘Birdly’ is a new machine developed by the Zurich University of the Arts that simulates flight using an Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, a motor-powered machine that mimics flying movements, a fan to fake the feeling of wind and even olfactory feedback tailored to the landscape of your choice.
The creators studied the movement of the Red Kite bird and translated it to a sensory-motor coupling that enables you to flap your ‘wings’ as if you’re really flying. The movement of your arms directly correlates to the flying sensation you experience through the Oculus Rift headset.
Once strapped in, you’re embedded in a virtual landscape as if you were the Red Kite itself for the closest possible simulation of flight that’s possible without ever actually going into the air. The faster you go, the stronger the air pushed out by the fan positioned right in front of your head.
While it’s easy to imagine Birdly becoming a fixture at amusement parks, so far, it’s just an art installation, with no plans for commercialization. The creators say there are a few tweaks still needed to keep users from getting sick during the flight experience. This device is just the latest in an intriguing line of creations using Oculus Rift to bend reality, like a recent Gender Swap experiment that allows the user to switch to the point of view of someone of a different gender.
Virtual reality, like the hovercar, iis taking longer than expected to progress, but we’ve made some very large leaps in the right direction. Here are examples.
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A Dutch design studio packs an amazingly complex Rube Goldberg machine into two suitcases, two years after producing the world’s largest room-sized machine.
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Sent into the atmosphere with a weather balloon, the Cloud Machine enables the user to influence the weather on a small scale.
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HTC has unveiled the One Mini 2 which is a scaled-down version of its current flagship phone, the One M8, with a similar design but with downgraded internal components. And in a slightly surprising move, HTC has also decided to not deploy the 4MP “ultrapixel” sensor in the One Mini 2. Instead it comes with a 13MP chip. Learn more
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Earlier today I shared a collection of food photography to make you hungry and hopefully get you inspired. Now it’s your turn! This week’s photography challenge is of course:
Here are a few more to get you drooling and thinking. There’s a lot to good food photography but if I had to give you one tip to get started it would be this – keep it simple and clean. Keep the background uncluttered and your props plain. Let the food be the star.
By Anne
By Cat
By liz west
By Nick Nguyen
By Christopher Chan
By chotda
Simply upload your shot into the comment field (look for the little camera icon in the Disqus comments section as pictured below) and they’ll get embedded for us all to see or if you’d prefer upload them to your favourite photo sharing site and leave the link to them. Okay, make us hungry.
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A serious outage has taken login functionality offline for almost 24 hours, leaving subscribers to Adobe’s Creative Cloud unable to access their accounts or do much of anything else – including downloading new apps. As yet, Adobe has been unable to offer any indication of how long the outage will last, but a message on the CC homepage states that the company has ‘identified the cause [and is] working to restore the service as quickly as possible’. Click through for more details and a link to Adobe’s Twitter feed, which is giving live updates.
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Wearable devices are the flavor of the season and the digital camera sector is no exception. A little while ago we reviewed the Autographer and now the Lifelogger, which is currently trying to get funded via a Kickstarter project, offers a similar concept. The idea is to record liife events from your point of view with the Lifelogger attached to your ear. It’s similar to how you would wear a bluetooth headset. Learn more
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Lately we’ve had a few articles on food photography including:
So I thought I’d share a collection of some appetizing food photos to get you not only salivating but inspired to get motivated to photograph your food!
hrrruuumm by U izmylove on 500px
Caffe Latte for two by Gert Lavsen on 500px
Coffee and Donuts by Claudia Totir on 500px
Morning Joe by Jesse Pafundi on 500px
Steaming coffee by Károly Nagy on 500px
Coffe by Viktor Pap on 500px
a fried egg with bread by Luiz Laercio on 500px
Bonjour by Luiz Laercio on 500px
??????????? ????? by Natalia Lisovskaya on 500px
Breakfast with Berries by Claudia Totir on 500px
Breakfast by Mirage Gourmand on 500px
Winter breakfast 2 by Claudia Totir on 500px
Breakfast by Natasha Breen on 500px
Healthy Breakfast by Daniel Waschnig on 500px
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Scallops with Noodles and Vegetables by Claudia Totir on 500px
cheeseburger by Peter Harasty on 500px
Sandwich and Soup by Aisha Yusaf on 500px
??????? ??? by Natalia Lisovskaya on 500px
Food by Fabricio Garcia on 500px
Fresh… by Mick Fuhrimann on 500px
Green Organic Healthy Pears by Brent Hofacker on 500px
Cheese and Nuts by Natasha Breen on 500px
Avocado n friends by Zsolt MATHE on 500px
Kwilight by Marco Wahl on 500px
Untitled by matt wright on 500px
Pasta with seafood by Mykola Velychko on 500px
Tortellini project by Sanja Kosanovi? on 500px
Gigot with grilled vegetables by Mykola Velychko on 500px
Scallops by Peter Harasty on 500px
Grilled skirt steak with tomato salad by Claudia Totir on 500px
Spare Ribs by Derek Phillips on 500px
Skirt Steak Topped with Pickled Red Onions by Bradford Tennyson on 500px
indian food by Peter Harasty on 500px
lobster by Peter Harasty on 500px
Steamy Spaghetti by Nicole S. Young on 500px
Bar Harbor Mussels by Nico Osteria, Chicago by Philip Chang on 500px
SuShi "Dragonroll" by Joe Haritat on 500px
Feast of Taste by Zeynep Ugurdag on 500px
Raspberry cake by Katia Titova on 500px
Cake by Estúdio Food on 500px
bottle and glass of wine by Alexandr Vlassyuk on 500px
Temptation by Martin Cauchon on 500px
Cupcakes de Vainilla con Nutella by Diego Garin Martin on 500px
Sea view Spritz by Lucilla Cuman on 500px
Wineglass by Sergei Fridman on 500px
Hungry yet? I am! Inspired to do some food photography? Watch for the weekly challenge later today – guess what the subject will be? 
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Sony has announced pricing and availability information for its Alpha 7S 12MP mirrorless camera. The Alpha 7S is the first full-frame camera able to read out its entire sensor fast enough to output 4K 30p footage without the need for line skipping or pixel binning. It’s also not constrained by the AVCHD standard with bitrates of up to 50Mbps. The body will be available in July and sell for $ 2,499.99. Learn more
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