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Adversarial Fashion Designed to Trick Automated License Plate Readers

As it turns out, surveillance cameras that have been "trained" to spot and read license plates aren't all that good at discerning real ones from fakes. That makes it pretty easy to trick ...

Point & Shoot: 8-Bit Gameboy Gun Takes and Prints Pictures

This fun bit of retrofuturistic tech genius looks like an ‘80s designer’s idea of a high-tech camera smashed up with a toy gun, and it actually works, taking and printing photos. Russian ...

Cute Cameras: Animal Shapes Make CCTV More Palatable

Would a cute, artistically designed chameleon sculpture make you feel better about being watched? A new series of CCTV camera cases by Italian designer Eleonora Trevisanutto transforms ugly, ...

Photo Finished: 9 Snappy Camera-Shaped Buildings

Yo dawg, these 9 camera-shaped buildings allow you to take selfies with your camera in front of buildings built to look like cameras. Now say “cheesy”! ...

Camera-Shaped Cafe Offers Picture-Perfect Cups of Coffee

A giant two-story camera rises from the grass beside an ordinary suburban home in the hills of South Korea. The Dreamy Camera Cafe is housed in a re-creation of a vintage Rolleiflex, featuring ...

PhotoFuture: 13 Innovative & Intelligent Digital Cameras

Digital photography innovations have led to cameras that can capture images at the speed of light, see the world from the compound eye of an insect or describe scenes via speech for the visually ...

15 of the World’s Weirdest Low-Tech Film Cameras

A pistol that shoots photos instead of bullets, a harness for pigeons, a cane and a human skull are among the unexpected objects that have been turned into film cameras since the dawn of ...

Impossible Gadget Turns Digital Photos Into Analog Prints

People around the world shed a little tear when Polaroid announced that it would stop producing the instant film that had become synonymous with the company's name. The folks at The Impossible ...

Fantastic Failures: 10 Wacky Failed Inventions From the Past

There are some inventions that will forever be remembered fondly even after they are made obsolete by other technology. And then there are the other ones...the failures that never quite took off, ...

Oh, Snap! 10 Camera Concepts Focused on Innovation

Despite having been around for a very long time, photography seems to be constantly evolving. Along with digital photography came a whole new generation of incredibly inventive gadgets and ...

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