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How do you take a picture of something above the surface of the water and below at the same …

Ever wonder how we’ll be interacting with our digital photos in the future? The …

DCHome forum member voigtlander just posted this photograph of a Nikon concept camera from Nikon Sapporo Showroom, where photography is prohibited. There's a lot of discussion over whether or not this design suggests what a future Nikon EVIL camera might look like, since it seems to have the same form factor as existing EVIL cams (e.g. Samsung NX10).

The i dropper is a conceptual device designed to make transferring photographs from different devices and computers intuitive, quick, and easy. To move a photograph from your iPad to your desktop, all you would have to do is "suck up" the photo on your iPad using the stylus pen-shaped device, and "drop" the data onto your computer screen. What's more, the data contained in the pen is displayed on a little screen to inform you of what's ready to be dropped.

Here are a couple mockups by MacRumors showing what Photoshop might look like on mobile computing devices like the iPad or iPhone. Adobe recently published a presentation they did on various things they're exploring with such devices. An example was using Content Aware Fill to modify a scene by painting over objects to be removed using your finger.

This is one of the most creative examples of light painting we’ve seen — Flickr user …

“Oops”, created by Chris Beckman, is a 10 minute art video composed entirely …

When the leaves on trees are just starting to change color in the Autumn, try collecting them and arranging …

Photographer Achim Lippoth of London-based creative agency edsonwilliams recently created this series of photographs for Kid's Wear Magazine involving children with dolls that look just like them. Beautiful portraits with a hint of cute and a dash of creepy!

Canon Expo 2010 is going on over in New York City right now, and one of the interesting things being displayed is a funky multipurpose 4K camera. The 8-megapixel CMOS camera is capable of super high definition video and photography at 60 frames per second, and has a do-it-all 24-480mm zoom lens.

This adorable Pico projector concept which comes hot on the heels of Nikon’s more standard-looking S1100pj projector camera.

Canon recently indicated that due to consumer demand for smaller cameras, they’re working …

We've already got plenty of gadgets designed to facilitate photography: there's auto-focus, face detection, and some crazy features in Photoshop that can effortlessly add and remove entire elements (and people) in photographs. So now why not have a camera that tells you whether you're taking an aesthetically pleasing photograph?

Most camera rain covers can be a bit cumbersome, but this Japanese rain cover concept might take the hassle …

Holga D is a concept camera by India-based industrial designer Saikat Biswas that brings the plastic, medium-format Holga camera into the digital age.

The cheap toy camera design retains the optical jankiness that lures hipsters to this type of camera (i.e. vignetting, blurring, and light leaks), but a DSLR-caliber sensor inside ensures that the anomalies are optical rather than digital.

Wouldn't it be neat if we could print out short video clips in Polaroid-esque "prints"? That's the idea behind Kim Hyun Joong's Movie Polaroid Camera, a concept camera that uses a flexible display material rather than ink to "print" out ultra-portable video clips rather than traditional Polaroid pictures.

What if you could have a rubber stamp that had a built in camera, allowing it to instantly change the stamp design to "print" a photograph? Would it be a stamp camera or a camera stamp? Either way, we think it's a nifty idea!

What if you could keep your camera charged all day while shooting outdoors using the power of the sun? …

Two weeks ago we shared a futuristic concept Sony DSLR designed by Tecnofotografia, and now they've done it again, with a concept design for a compact Samsung camera.

Here's a new Sony Alpha concept DSLR camera that features a slanted LCD to keep your face away from the screen, similar to the Sony a352 concept camera that we featured last month. Unlike that one, which had a solar and rounded design, this one has a lot of edges and sharp angles, like what you might see in futuristic concept cars.

Here's a concept design of the "Nikon D4x" by San Francisco-based industrial designer Marc Levinson.

3D photography hasn’t arrived in the consumer DSLR world yet, and existing setups require combining two DSLR …

Forget complicated kite photography kits that actually require skill. UK-based industrial designer Matthew …

Richard Renaldi has an interesting approach to street photography: he asks complete strangers to touch one another. The resulting interactions …

Here’s a fun concept design imagining the classic Kodak Brownie reintroduced to for …

The “Sony a352” is a concept camera design by Ryan David Francis, a …

The Zero Angle Digital Camera is a conceptual design by Sun ho Sin and Jeong eun Park that protects …

This video, created by California photographer Jesse Rosten, offers an interesting glimpse at what digital magazine covers might look like for the iPad. Rather than offer a static photograph of the beach as the print version of Sunset Magazine would, this cover is brought to life with both video and animation.

As online stock photography services and libraries have expanded in recent years, stock photography books have become more and more obsolete.

Advertising and communications corp JWT recently came up with an idea to breath new life into these dying books by transforming them into tools to help teach disadvantaged children to read.

Sony has been quite mum with regards to their upcoming ultra-compact camera. However, they've begun releasing some teasers to give us a better idea of what's to come, including the above YouTube video and the following screenshots of the touchscreen interface:

Buttons is a concept camera by Sascha …

Remember the Nova Concept DSLR? Well this one might be even stranger. Fleximus is a conceptual digital camera that's based on a flexible tube:

Every few generations, the design of camera bodies change with shifts in technology. From the early days of plate and large format cameras, through rangefinder and single lens reflex cameras, new camera designs regularly spring forth and some go on to become mainstream. One might therefore ask, "what's next?"

Here’s a quick idea for you to try if you’re looking for some photo inspiration (after all, we have …