Gigalinc is an "immersive photography" project by University of Lincoln student Samuel Cox that allows people to explore gigapixel photographs on a giant display using arm movements and hand gestures. Using an Xbox Kinect sensor for motion detection and a large cinema display, the resulting user interface is strikingly similar to the interface Tom Cruise uses in Minority Report.
Here's another public service announcement for those of you who travel often (see our warning on zippered bags): the safes in hotel rooms may not be as secure as you think. YouTube user skyrangerpro recently discovered that the safe in his room could be opened with "000000" regardless of what passcode he chose. This is presumably the "master password" the hotel uses when you've forgotten the one you've chosen, but the fact that some hotels leave this on factory default settings is cause for …
What would famous photographs look like if the photographers who created them had been using Instagram? That's a question that's answered by Mastergram, a site that takes the work of renowned photographers and passes them through Instagram filters.
Mike Johnston of TOP explains why Sony shouldn't call its pellicle mirror "translucent": …
If you want to do street photography, attacking people with cameras like Fabio Pires does in London probably isn't the way you should go about doing it -- unless you're trying to give photography a bad name. Does anyone know of any good behind-the-scenes videos of good (and candid) street photography being done in a respectable way?
After finding out that he was going to become a father, photographer Tom Robinson decided to make a creative photo project out of the task of telling his family and friends by capturing their expressions at the moment of hearing the news.
