Futuristic Drag and Drop Concept for Transferring Photos and Media
Tired of fiddling with cables and memory cards? You might not have to in the near future as wireless data transfer becomes more and more common. This brilliant concept video by designer Ishac Bertran imagines how we might soon be using “spatially aware devices”, or devices that can share data simply by holding them close...
The All.Round Camera Concept: A Bendy Take on the DSLR
Concept products aren’t a rarity. In the world of cars and computers concepts usually make us ooh and ahh at their beautiful styling and implied functionality, but in the world of cameras things can get a bit, strange. Such is the case with a new SLR concept by industrial designer Arti Patel called the All.Round...
EyeRing is a “Point and Shoot” Camera for the Visually Impaired
MIT’s Media Lab is no stranger to innovation; from super-high-speed cameras to cameras that can see around walls, they always seem to be on the cutting edge of imaging innovation. Their newest project, the EyeRing, is yet another innovative idea that could some day revolutionize the way we take pictures and experience our world. The...
Concept Push Pins That Light Up Photos in the Dark
Light Up Your Memories is a concept product by designers Hwang Youn Ha, Kim Min Jeong, Cha Yoon Suk & Kim Yong Ha that features push pins that light up at night, giving light to photographs that you have pinned up on your walls. Along with the light-up pins, the system incorporates a pin-up board...
Touchy: A Bizarre Concept Camera that Shoots Based on Physical Touch
Touchy, by Hong Kong-based artist Eric Siu, is one of the strangest concept cameras we’ve seen. Here’s the description: Touchy is a human camera, who is blinded constantly until someone’s touch enables the opening of the automated shutters. While a continuous physical contact is maintained between Touchy and a user, the camera shoots a photo...
Canon Mirrorless Concept by David Riesenberg
Tweet David Riesenberg sent us his new Canon mirrorless design concept we thought we’d share. There are rumors Canon will be entering the mirrorless segment later this year (see canonrumors.com article) Canon Mirrorless Concept From his article – which has many more images and ideas Like many others, I too have been waiting for quite...
Prototype Camera Projects a White Frame Line Onto the Real World
Researchers at Osaka University in Japan have created a new camera that makes shooting “from the hip” easier by projecting a white border onto the real world — similar to what laser sights do for firearms. The frame line shows exactly the area that will be in the photograph, and allows users to quickly shoot...
Prototype Camera Lets You Shoot Photos by Framing Scenes with Your Fingers
Last November we featured a concept camera called Air that is worn on your fingers and snaps photographs when you frame scenes with your fingers. That concept may soon become a reality. Researchers at IAMAS in Japan have developed a tiny camera called Ubi-Camera that captures photos as you position your fingers in the shape...
Canon AE-D Mirrorless Camera Concept
Olympus recently rebooted its OM line of film SLRs with the OM-D mirrorless camera, and many photographers are hoping that Canon will follow suit with one of its film bodies. Industrial designer and photographer David Riesenberg is among them, and recently decided turn what he wants to see into a concept drawing. After spending months...
D-CAN: A Cylindrical Concept Camera
Designer Jean-michel Bonnemoy thinks that traditional camera designs are wrong, and that form factors were driven more by technical necessity (e.g. the need to hold film) than by ergonomics and ease of use. Instead, he proposes that modern digital cameras should be cylindrical and resembling a handheld telescope. A lens cap is built into the...
