Canon Dropping Humans From Assembly Lines, May Go Fully Robotic by 2015
In sharp contrast to the Leica way of doing things by hand, Canon has just announced that …
Automate Useful Photo Tasks with If This Then That
ifttt (If This Then That) is a new service that lets you automate …
Clever Wedding Photo Booth Made Using a Canon T3i
We’ve seen DSLR photo booth projects before, but usually they’re just simple ways for guests at an …
Light Painting Art Done Using Swarms of Robot Vacuum Cleaners
This light painting photograph was created by a group of students over in Germany using a swarm of seven Roomba automated vacuum cleaners. Each one had a different colored LED light attached to the top, making the resulting photo look like some kind of robotic Jackson Pollock painting. There's actually an entire Flickr group dedicated to using Roombas for light painting -- check it out of you have one of these robot minions serving you in your home.
PicTreat Provides Instant Face Retouching
PicTreat is a free online application that allows …
Paparazzi Bot Prowls for Smiling Faces
The Paparazzi Bots are a series of robots invented by Ken Rinaldo, a faculty member in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. Each bot is autonomous, and moves about on a wheeled platform, using infrared sensors to move towards humans. It's goal is to take single photographs of people, and it makes decisions on whether or not to capture the photograph based on facial expressions of the subject. If you happen to be smiling, the bot is more likely to photograph you.