Lori Grunin

Relonch bets you’ll pay $99 a month for one

Now playing: Watch this: Meet Relonch, the camera without a screen 1:21 Add Relonch to the growing pile of products touting artificial intelligence that’s so advanced it’s practically magic. In this case, it’s a $99 a month service that consists of a data plan and a camera sporting only power and shutter buttons; it automatically …

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Get Amazon Prime for $79, today only

Forget about waiting for Black Friday or Cyber Monday; Amazon’s got a good deal for today, and today only. You can subscribe to its popular Prime service for $79, $20 off its normal $99, until 11:59 p.m. PT today. For Amazon UK, that’s £59, a £20 discount off the normal £79 price, until 11:59 p.m. UK time tonight. At the …

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Lovely vintage and antique camera gear from Leica, Nikon and others up for auction

I love vintage gear — can’t afford it, but like to look at the designs. And the catalog of products for an upcoming WestLicht Photographica Auction to celebrate its 15th anniversary has some stunning and historic items. For instance, in addition to the watch-camera pictured above, there’s a Leica Summicron 35mm f2 lens used by Henri Cartier-Bresson. There’s also an …

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Netflix and Ubisoft to say ‘game on’?

Rumors have swirled that Ubisoft may continue to expand beyond video games According to a report Monday from Reuters, streaming-video giant Netflix and the video-game maker have been talking about creating a TV series. Also on Monday, a featurette for the “Assassin’s Creed” movie was released. The film, based on Ubisoft’s video game series, is set to hit theaters on …

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Adobe Project Felix aims to ease 3D compositing for designers

Editors’ note, November 7, 2016: Corrected an error stating that Felix can’t import models and materials; it can. Adobe has a new trend of showing off “project” applications shortly before launching a basic-featured product — think of Fall 2015’s Project Comet, which became Adobe XD in Spring 2016. This time it’s Project Felix, targeting designers who need to mock up …

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Adobe Creative Cloud updates offer a lot for XD fans and Stock lovers

It’s that time of year where Adobe answers the question “what’s new with you?” And as usual, it’s a very long answer. In addition to the debut of Project Felix, its designer-focused tool for creating photorealistic mockups of scenes combining 2D and 3D elements, the updates and new capabilities in its video applications Adobe announced at IBC in September are …

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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar and a TV app for Apple TV: Everything Apple just announced

Now playing: Watch this: Apple’s Touch Bar or Microsoft’s Dial? One outshines… 2:01 It seems like only yesterday that Apple hosted its iPhone 7 circus, and now we’re back for the company’s MacBook 2016 launch, a much smaller event at the company’s headquarters. The event started with a video highlighting the accessibility features of Apple’s products, and announced a new …

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How much are web icons worth? A lot if you’re Font Awesome 5

Dave Gandy’s Font Awesome, an open-source kit of icons with Cascading Style Sheets to implement them for web designers, has a large and growing following, so it’s no surprise that after a few years an updated version would be well received. The overhaul, dubbed Font Awesome 5, that Gandy wants to finance through a Kickstarter campaign adds a lot of …

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Sigma dives head

Sigma reinvented itself in 2012 with a terrific new lens design (I was initially skeptical about the branding) at relatively inexpensive prices, which really seemed to usher in a new competitive era in third-party lenses. Now it’s taking it all a step further by getting into the cinema-lens business, hopefully bringing with it the same quality optics. It enters the …

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Nikon lens gives wide

Nikon added a new specialized pro lens to its family along with a welcome update to the staple 70-200mm f2.8 pro model. The first is a special-purpose PC Nikkor 19mm f4E ED. PC stands for “perspective correction,” Nikon’s terminology for its tilt-shift lenses. Tilt-shift lenses can either be used when wide-angle is necessary but distortion is undesirable — such as …

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