Camera brand Olympus has a whole new name and look

Camera brand Olympus has a whole new name and look

Post Views: 102 Olympus’ long and storied history of making cameras came to an end late last year when its imaging division was sold off to Japan Industrial Partners and rebranded as OM Digital Solutions. This new company has just unveiled an incredibly over-the-top website to announce that going forward, all “interchangeable lens cameras and…

This camera is as small as a grain of sand—but it still takes great pictures

This camera is as small as a grain of sand—but it still takes great pictures

Post Views: 147 Designed by a team of researchers from Princeton University and the University of Washington, the new system is detailed in a paper published last week in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Communications. It replaces the complex and bulky compound lens found in most cameras. With a metasurface that’s just 0.5mm wide, the camera…

The unofficial list of the world’s most colorful places

The unofficial list of the world’s most colorful places

Post Views: 197 This “study” was done by the strangest group imaginable: the mortgage comparison team at Uswitch. I can only speculate that it was some kind of Friday afternoon marketing Hail Mary—but however they managed to convince management to sign off on it, we’re writing about it. The study used a “seed list” of…