Internet Eyes is an online service that opens up access to closed-circuit cameras to the public, awarding cash prizes up to £1,000 each month to the users who catch the most crooks.

Old cameras are becoming a stylish accessory, and in Japan the youth eagerly show off their retro cameras to the Tokyo Camera Style blog.

Nikon’s latest camera, the CoolPix S1000pj, includes a tiny projector to turn any dimly lit surface into a slideshow of your latest photos or video clips.  The pocket point-and-shoot includes a 12.1 megapixel sensor, a 2.7 inch screen and image stabilization.  Nikon’s latest technology continues the trend of convergence in our daily lives and hopes to eliminate products with just a single use.
Nikon’s new camera is the first to include a projector and while it’s tiny, it can project a 40 inch image onto a wall about two meters away and comes with a remote control.  The S100pj will set [...]

Olympus recently unveiled the newest version of their iconic Pen camera.  In the 60s and 70s, the Pen series camera sold more than 17 million units and Olympus is clearly hoping to match its ancestor’s distinctive style.
The modern digital version of the Pen will feature 12.3 megapixels, 720p HD video recording and come with two lenses.  As DPreview points out, it’s essentially an Olympus E-620 crammed into a new sexy body, but also includes minor upgrades like the ability to apply Art Filters on RAW files directly from the camera.  It’s great to see camera manufactures taking a page from [...]

Even as consumer camera drop in price and rapidly increase in quality, none of them could compare to the system researchers at the University of California in Los Angeles are developing.  They are working on an imaging system that utilizes “supercontinuum laser pulses” to capture incredibly fast moving events such as neuron communication.
The system, dubbed Steam (Serial Time-Encoded Amplified imaging), creates a shutter speed equivalent of half a billionth of a second through a speedy laser pulse and captures 6.1 million images a second. The research team is continuing to work on this project to hone the quality of [...]