GoPro launches HD Hero2 helmet cam, with live WIFI streaming coming soon

October 24, 2011
Technology
Camera Television

More awesome hardware for the GoPro team, as the extreme camera of choice for most broadcasters, I can’t wait to see what they can do with the new one (especially the new WIFI streaming edition coming this winter!)…

The HD Hero2 competitively boasts that it’s twice as powerful its 2009 predecessor, the original HD Hero. The new helmet cam promises to capture 1080p 16:9 footage from atop your sweaty noggin at both narrow (90-degree), wide (170-degree) and medium (127-degree) angles, and can snap up to ten 11 megapixel photos per second.

The camera’s mini-HDMI port, composite out, USB, SD card and HERO ports will help you share the spoils of your spills when your adventure ends — at least until this winter, when GoPro’s WiFi BacPac promises to enable live broadcasting and camera control over WiFi.

via Engadget.

Nokia 800 Windows Phone teaser advert

Here’s another look at those Nokia 800 adverts that have been appearing on UK TV adverts. This is quite something. The phone isn’t even announced yet, but we’re seeing it on TV. It will be announced in a few days. The crunch will be, “when will it be available?”. Has Nokia ever put up adverts for a phone you couldn’t buy for a while before?

via My Nokia Blog.

Winter is coming to Scandinavia

October 23, 2011
Photography
Photography Weather

Stunning image of the shape of things to come, via Reddit

How to roll old-school Instagram filters

At 1000memories, we have a particular fondness for old stuff (if you can’t tell by our homepage). That’s why we’ve always liked Instagram. It celebrates the old, vintage aesthetic of the film photos of yore. But there’s a lot of history behind the photo filter that many folks are not aware of—in fact, none of the photo apps you know today would exist without the vintage photography that inspired them. So we set out to hack the formula to recreate the look of the analog Instagram filters using the technology that inspired them in the first place—vintage cameras and film.

via 1000memories.

Sydney’s Art & About: The road to nowhere

October 23, 2011
Design
Art Australia

I love this piece of street art…

If you’re in Sydney from now till October 23, 2011, make sure to walk around town and take in all the art! Art & About Sydney is the city’s annual public arts festival that’s basically like one big, open-air art gallery. Projects by Australian and international artists are creatively re-imagining the streets, turning the city into a giant canvas.

via My Modern Metropolis.

Design resource: Android native icons

October 22, 2011
Design
Android Design Icons

Here’s a great resource for any one designing apps for Android, Olof Brickarp has done the hard part and converted the android action bar icons to Illustrator ro generic EPS files…

This project started around the time Google released it’s official Twitter client and introduced the actionbar. With the new guidelines they recommended to use the native icons in new ways. However, the ones included in the SDK have some styles applied to them and is only available in png format. So I started turning them into vector format, at the beginning mostly for myself to current and future projects.

via Yay.se