Memory Clock is an interesting new concept design that combines the world of clocks with the world of digital photo frames. It's a clock that helps you relive memories by showing you photos from the past.
This is quite a bit out in left field, but check out this pasta limiter that's currently one of the hot new releases over on Amazon. It's essentially an aperture that's designed for pasta rather than light.
The popular photo newsletter and online store Photojojo has launched an iPhone app called Disposable Camera. It's a digital version of the disposable cameras of old, allowing users to snap 27 exposures and receive the photos as physical prints on your doorstep.
Apple's new Macbook features a redesigned pressure-sensitive trackpad called the Force Touch. In addition to being more powerful for inputs from your fingers, the new design allows for the use of a stylus on the touchpad if you'd like to retouch your photographs tablet-style.
The Filter Pocket Toddy is a microfiber lens cloth designed for photographers on the go. When not in use, the product folds up into a small built-in pocket and can be attached to keychains, backpacks, purses, and bags.
The SoundBarrel is a concept Bluetooth speaker design that shutterbugs should feel right at home with. Created by South Korean industrial designer SaeJoung Kou, the device looks like a wooden camera lens and features a nifty aperture mechanism that's used to change the volume.
As smartphone photography and selfie culture become more ubiquitous, we're starting to see new products that aim to make snapping smartphone shots simpler. First came the selfie stick, and now there's a new product called the Divoom Bluetune-Bean. It's an ultra-portable Bluetooth speaker that has a feature that sets it apart: on the side is a shutter button for triggering the camera on your phone.
If you want photobooth-style prints of your pics, one way to get them is through Social Print Studio's Photostrips printing service. If you want to super-size your order, there's now an option for that too. The company has announced a new product called Giant Photostrips. It allows you to turn your photos into giant photobooth-style strips.
Services such as Mosaic already let you make photo books in 5 minutes for $25, but if that's still too taxing on your time and rich for your blood, Fujifilm UK has a new service for you. Called POP BOOK, it's designed to help you make small, casual photo books in a few taps for just £5.
Back in January, we reported that a DJ named Chris Holmes had developed a line of "anti-paparazzi clothing" that ruins flash photographs at night by blowing the photos out with excessive reflected light. The idea gained traction, and now the "Flashback" line of apparel will soon be hitting the market.
It was around this time last year that we shared a new product called SHORTCUT-S, a 319-key keyboard designed specifically for editing photos in Photoshop.
Family photographs used to be collected in things like photo albums and shoeboxes, but these days digital photographs are scattered across all kinds of devices and services. Bevy is a new device and service that wants to help you and your family cut through the clutter to organize and enjoy the photos you care about.
Hanging a picture frame up on a wall often isn't the simplest of tasks, at least if you're a perfectionist, but a new product has arrived to change that. Called the Beehive Picture Hanger, it's a new hanging system that makes hanging a frame perfectly a breeze and something that only takes a few moments without any measurements.
Google is partnering with Mattel to reboot the iconic View-Master stereoscopic 3D photo viewing device. Instead of static photos with circular film reels, however, the new View-Master offers an immersive digital experience that puts people inside 360° "photospheres."
Photographer Paul Michael Kane has created a clever new product that's designed to inspire and encourage photographers in their creativity and shooting. It's called LightBox Photography Cards, and is a deck of 52 cards that can help shuffle things up in your photography and "get you out shooting in new and exciting ways."
Wundershine is a new Dutch company that's trying to revolutionize how we view and interact with wall-mounted picture frames. They're working on an ecosystem based around a product known as the Makerframe, a wooden picture frame that can print and frame your photos using its built-in thermal printer.
Picattoo is a new service by INK361 that turns your Instagram photographs into temporary tattoos that you can decorate your body with.
WhiteAlbum is a new app and service that wants to bring the fun of disposable camera photography to the world of smartphones. It's a camera app that doesn't let you review your photographs until they show up at your door in the form of prints.
Sustainability is a big and important idea these days, and it's the one behind this new concept box design for DSLR cameras. It's clever packaging that has two uses: once the camera is safely transported to the owner, the box is taken apart and used as the owner's manual for the camera.
Check out this clever little salt and pepper set: it's designed to look like 35mm rolls of Kodak and Fujifilm film. The yellow one is the "Film Salt Shaker," and the green one is the "Film Pepper Shaker."
If you already can't stand the idea of a selfie stick existing, you may want to avert your eyes. The BelfieStick is a bizarre new device for "belfies," or backside selfies. It's like a selfie stick, except for the express purpose of photographing your butt.
While working as a DJ for Paul McCartney's world tours, Chris Holmes would often be disappointed when his reflective outfits would ruin flash photographs by blowing it out with light. Then one day he had an epiphany: why not turn things around and use the photo-ruining clothing "for a greater purpose"? …
Polaroid has new ownership and fresh determination to make its well known brand great again. This week the company launched a couple of new products in two similar yet different markets: mobile printing and... dashcams.
Canon today announced a new product called the Connect Station CS100. It's a system designed for storing, viewing, and sharing your digital photos and videos.
San Francisco-based cycling team/brand Mash SF is selling a line of "Purist" water bottles that are inspired by the designs of classic film stocks. So far there's Kodachrome, Fuji Velvia, Ilford HP5, and Agfa Pro 200.
Want to keep time with a clock inspired by camera gear? Here's a roundup of timepieces based on cameras, lenses, and rolls of film. (Note: The clocks on this list may or may not still be available for purchase.)
Here's a neat idea that combines photography with Christmas spirit: the Plaza Ginza shopping center in Tokyo, Japan has been running a fun event called "I Wrap You." Instead of wrapping gifts with generic wrapping paper, the center is snapping photos of customers on the spot to create gift wrap featuring their faces.
In Brook, Indiana, a town of about 1,000 people, there's a small business called CameraBands that specializes in recycling camera equipment into bracelets and rings. If you ever break your favorite gear far beyond repair (i.e. it's destined for the junkyard), you can ship it to CameraBands instead of tossing it to have it transformed into very different forms.
What if displaying your favorite photos were more like playing your favorite vinyl records? A couple of Swedish designers want to introduce a similar ecosystem of "discs," sleeves, and "players" to the world of photo frames. The idea is called the Frameworks One, a backlit frame for printed photos that can quickly be physically swapped in and out.
How good are your eyes at seeing colors? Over the years, we've shared a number of online color matching games that help you test this. 1000 Colours is an offline game for the same thing: it's a jigsaw puzzle consisting of 1000 pieces that cover the CMYK color gamut.
Digital picture frames often steal attention away from the photos they display -- the quality and resolution on most displays don't always do photos justice and end up detracting from the viewing experience. Depict is a new frame that wants to revolutionize the experience of displaying and viewing art digitally.
We're a bit late this year, but here's the latest edition of our holiday gift guide! Unlike other photography gift guides you might find this holiday season, ours is more lighthearted and geared more toward novelty gifts than serious gear.
Here's a camera-shaped case you can use to carry your lenses around -- not your camera lenses, but your contact lenses. The covers snap on tightly to keep your lenses safe from dirt and scratches when they're not in use, and the 2x3x.8-inch case is a perfect size for traveling.
Want to decorate your wall with a collage of your photos, but don't want to spend the time, energy, and money required to make it happen? CollageMo can help. It's an app that does for photo collages what Mosaic does for photo books.
After three years of teasing and a handful of tentative release dates that have come and gone, the Polaroid Socialmatic instant printing digital camera officially has a release date. As in, an actual day... not just a month or quarter.
Casio has officially unveiled its latest point-and-shoot camera. Its official name is the Exilim MR1, but to the general public, it’s more likely to go by its street name, the ‘Kawaii Selfie by Mirror Cam.’ …
When you're shooting on-location, you often want to pack as light as possible to minimize the physical effort needed to set things up. Just one problem: you're probably going to need to carry around big, cumbersome sandbags in order to hold down all that ultra-light gear you packed.
Missed that Cyber Monday deal on the 28-inch 4K Dell monitor for only $300? Or decided to skip it because it was a TN panel and not IPS? No worries, Dell just announced two new monitors that are yet again setting a new low-price bar for jumping into the 4K game -- and these are IPS panels with 60Hz refresh rates!
Two weeks ago we shared this not-unattractive, Japan-exclusive Nikon DF that oh-so-subtly adorns the full-frame camera’s façade with a dashing bit of gold. Now, thanks to eBay, you can purchase the limited-edition camera for yourself even if you don't live in Japan.
Remember Foldio? Introduced a little over a year ago today, it's an ultra-portable, foldable light box that gave smartphone photographers the ability to capture much more professional looking product shots. And if you want to know just how popular it as, keep in mind the Foldio Kickstarter raised over $170,000 when its goal was only $10K.
You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who knows as much about ZEISS as Bernd K. Otto. From the company's entry into the photography world in 1890, to its long-lived history and reputation throughout the 20th century, Otto’s knowledge and passion for the company led him to create Carl Zeiss Kamera-Register 1902–2012, the most comprehensive anthology of ZEISS cameras in existence.
Videographers need not apply, but photographers interested in picking up their first 4K Ultra HD monitor for photo editing have a heck of a deal they can take advantage of today. Microsoft is currently selling the 28-inch Dell P2815Q 4K Ultra HD monitor for only $300.
If you need some extra storage or you've been waiting for a good quality portable hard drive at a great price, we've found a deal you should definitely jump on. The Western Digital 2TB My Passport Ultra is selling at an all-time low price of $80 right now on eBay.
In the age of the iPad, there still is something glorious about a photo book. Here are a few of our favorites from 2014, so send Santa (or Hanukah Harry) a quick tweet, and get a big dose of inspiration this Holiday season.
Micro-drones are typically thought of as more of a toy rather than a tool. If you want to capture real recreational aerial footage, you buy a bigger, heftier drone, right? Well, not necessarily. ZANO wants to change all that by packing both power and ease of use into a tiny package that measures just 2.5 x 2.5-inches and weighs just over 1.2lbs.
Here's a wonderful little gift idea (stocking stuffer perhaps?) that’s sure to impress one of the photography lovers on your list this holiday season. It’s the Poladarium 2015, and it's a peel-away calendar where each day presents a new Polaroid photograph for you to admire.
High speed photography is all about fast-flash; the faster your flash, the faster the instant you can adequately freeze on a digital sensor. Modern strobes are pretty good at this, with flash durations as fast as 1/20,000 of a second, but a Bristol-based company Vela Labs is about to take high-speed photography to unheard-of heights.
The South Korean government is threatening selfie stick retailers with fines of up to $27K and jail time over some of the group selfie products they're selling, and it's all because of electromagnetic radiation. Feeling lost yet? Us too.
There are times when having an extra hand while on a shoot would be a huge help, especially when you’re dealing with multiple lights that are mounted high up in a stand. Thankfully, a clever contraption is in the works that will rid you of these troubles, making it easier than ever to adjust your speedlights’ positioning on-the-fly whether or not you have an assistant nearby.
One of the biggest weaknesses of mobile cameras is shooting in low-light. The sensor can't usually handle it very well, and the built-in light sources are usually... well... crap. Here to help with that is Lume Cube, a product currently being funded on Kickstarter that hopes to quite literally light up your smartphone and GoPro imagery.
