Canon rolls out new digital cameras, camcorders

At the Photo Marketing Association (PMA) trade show today in Orlando, Canon introduced a number of new digital imagaing products, including the EOS Digital Rebel XT SLR camera, new PowerShot compact cameras, and a trio of camcorders. full story...

Trash Projector

The Urban Atmospheres team at Berkeley, which studies the interaction of people and their environment in urban areas, is running a project called “Jetsam” that “explores urban public trash, its meaning, patterns, and usage.”

The Jetsam team has come up with a prototype for an “augmented trashcan,” which can project images of its innards onto the sidewalk. The can captures a picture of each piece of trash as it enters, and adds it to a collage of its contents, creating a constantly changing array that spreads out over the ground in front of it. We’d like to see more of these; somehow, we suspect that people might think twice about some of the things they toss if they knew that they would become part of an instant public art display. full story...