Joshua Goldman

This phone stabilizer puts an end to shaky video (hands

If you shoot a lot of video with your phone, you may have considered picking up a motorized gimbal. It’s a battery-operated handgrip that typically uses three motors to counteract shake and sudden movement to make your movies look smooth even while you’re running. There are several out there to pick from, but the MarSoar, …

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Yuneec Breeze is a selfie drone for the masses

With the Breeze, electric aviation company Yuneec makes the move from professional and hobbyist camera drones into phone accessories. Available now, the $500 quadcopter (approximately AU$660 or £380) is completely controlled with the Breeze Cam mobile app for iOS and Android. The app gives you a handful of flight modes — Selfie, Follow Me, Orbit, Journey and Pilot — and …

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DJI added a zoom lens to its Osmo stabilized camera

DJI’s camera drones let you capture subjects from incredible heights. Now its Osmo handheld camera can get you closer to things on the ground. The new 7x zoom Osmo Plus camera uses the same 3-axis motorized gimbal that makes video look so smooth from its Inspire 1 quadcopter, but attaches to a handgrip. The integrated X3 zoom camera is similar …

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Google FCC filing hints at high

It looks like Google Fiber‘s next step for high-speed internet supremacy will be wireless. Google In a filing with the Federal Communications Commission, the company outlines plans to experiment with the 3.5 GHz band, spectrum that could “help relieve Wi-Fi congestion — improving the experience of consumers accessing the Internet over wireless broadband.” The request for experimental authorization includes testing …

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Rio Olympics nabs live streaming gold

Watching athletes break records on your phone has helped NBC break an Olympic record of its own. Through Tuesday, viewers streamed 883 million live minutes of the Olympics, blowing past the 818 million minutes of live video streamed for the entire 2012 London Olympics. That includes video streamed via NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app. “The 2016 Rio Olympics is …

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Yuneec SkyView gets you high in the sky while you’re still on the ground

For its Typhoon H and Tornado H920 camera drones, Yuneec builds a 7-inch touchscreen right into the ST16 Ground Station controller so you can see just what the camera sees. Its new SkyView FPV headset does the same, but it’s strapped to your face to immerse you in the experience. The headset, which weighs in at 16.3 ounces (463 grams), …

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MicroJib adds another twist on GoPro pole mounts

The MicroJib might look like an average GoPro pole mount, but a simple twist of the handle shows it’s much more. Instead of keeping the camera fixed at the end, you can use the MicroJib’s handgrip to tilt your GoPro up and down or pan it left and right a full 360 degrees. The pole extends from 16.5 to 33.5 …

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Watch a hernia surgery live in VR

Doctors and medical students — or people who just want to watch anything in virtual reality — will be able to immerse themselves in a live surgery tomorrow. Giblib, an online platform for surgeons to share medical lectures and surgical videos, will live stream a hernia operation using 360fly’s 360-degree 4K camera on July 28 at 11 a.m. PT. The …

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This lens turns a GoPro into a 3D camera (hands

GoPro cameras are good on their own, but what really drives them, what makes them so versatile, is their range of accessories. That’s what transforms them into something useful for your specific needs. For startup Vitrima, the goal was to turn a single GoPro camera into a stereoscopic 3D camera. The Vitrima 3D GoPro camera lens uses mirrors to split …

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BitTorrent looks to disrupt TV news starting at RNC

BitTorrent, best known for its peer-to-peer sharing technologies, continues its push toward becoming a media company with the BitTorrent News network. BTN will also cover the Democratic National Convention starting on July 25. BitTorrent The live-streaming news network will be available through its BitTorrent Live app for Apple TV, iOS devices and MacOS computers starting July 18 with coverage of …

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