Sean Toohey

Interesting infographic from Bill Shrink that shows the popularity of iPhone OS in the US. Despite the hype they do not yet dominate the market. Of course they only make one phone, while the competition make several phones on various Operating Systems. Source: Bill Shrink

The CellScope is very cool use of techonoly to help Doctors diagnose disease in remote areas using a cell phone camera and a portable microscope. University of California, Berkley, Professor Daniel Fletcher and his team had an idea that now helps to save lives. They took a microscope, a Nokia N95, and put them together. They call it the CellScope. A super-portable microscope imaging device, perfect for diagnosing diseases in remote areas in developing world countries. Images of cell samples can be captured then sent by MMS anywhere in the world for instant analysis. Brilliant. Also to showcase their Cellescop, the 'World's Smallest Stopmotion Animation Character' film shot using a Nokia N8 and CellScope technology:

This blog has always been about technology and media, but every now and then I watch a beautiful paragliding video and I want to share one of my other great passions. Thanks to my friend in flight, Jonathan Wreglesworth for sharing this with me. Enjoy, Verige - un univers du roche et de glace (Vertigo - a world of rock and ice) by Stéphane Boulenger Stéphane shot this while flying over the Aiguille du Midi (3,842 m) a mountain in the Mont Blanc massif in the French Alps.

Last night I watched a documentary on soviet era photography and today I found this cool example of HDR Video using 2 digital SLR cameras from Soviet Montage Productions. HDR Video Demonstration Using Two Canon 5D mark II's from Soviet Montage This video highlights several clips we've made using our new High Dynamic Range (HDR) process. Video is captured on two Canon 5D mark II DSLRs, each capturing the exact same subject via a beam splitter. The cameras are configured so that they record different exposure values, e.g., one camera is overexposed, the other underexposed. After the footage has been recorded, we use a variety of HDR processing tools to combine the video from the two cameras, yielding the clips you see above. HDR Video provides filmmakers with many exciting new opportunities. Not only can HDR video create interesting effects, it can also allow for even exposure where artificial lighting is unavailable or impractical. For example, when a subject i