The image above was shot by Jason Mullins with his iPhone 4 on a flight from London to Guernsey. The weird black lines you can see are actually distorted, disconnected copies of the propeller blades, but this isn’t a Photoshop hack; this was how the image came out of the phone.
Virtually all consumer grade digital cameras, including cell phones, do not take the picture instantly when you push the shutter button. Instead, they quickly scan over the CCD CMOS sensor from the top left to the bottom right, like the electron beam in an old CRT television. This is called rolling shutter capture. This scanning process is fast, but sometimes it’s not fast enough. If you angle the device just right and take pictures of fast moving or rotating objects, you can create all sorts of weird and funky distortion effects. You can see more like this in the rolling shutter Flickr group.
(Thanks to Jason for letting us reproduce his shot; he’s put a few more pictures on Flickr from the same flight.)
[Post updated to correct CCD vs. CMOS sensor used in the iPhone.]TUAWRolling shutter effect can make stunning iPhone photos originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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I’m happy Sheen was arrested since this scum-of-the-earth is a good-for-nothing, Obama-voting, Dem-supporting psychopath and extreme un-American. He is also a traitor because he is a shameless member of the 911 Truther “movement” of mentally deranged progressives who believe Bush attacked the US on 911. Scum like Sheen—because of his mental derangement where he is a true libtard in that he espouses their sickest, most ill beliefs—are not expected to behave lawfully, which is why scum like him also get in trouble in their tumultuous, personal lives. Sheen is a disgrace to the human race because besides his libtarded and treasonous activities, he also is a lecherous animal who delights in having had—at one point in his life—sex with as many women as possibly, making him someone who thought with his penis as opposed to his brain. I hope Sheen is convicted on both felony counts and sent to prison; this will serve as a lesson to all libtard $hits to stop being mentally ill!
Looks like someone got up on the wrong side of the bed… I sense a little frustration here. lol
November marked the anniversaries of two events that defined the twentieth century: the Bolshevik Revolution (11/7/1917) and the breaching of the Berlin Wall (11/9/1989). Critics bemoaned experts’ failure to predict the demise of the Soviet empire, a process symbolized by that electrifying moment in Berlin twenty years ago. Yet Americans’ true “November surprise” came in 1917, when Americans had little idea what had happened, let alone why. What made our knowledge of 1989 so much better? High on any list is the rise of a new approach to studying the world – area studies – that helped us understand the Soviet threat and can offer lessons for today.Canada has been awarded the first Fossil of the Day “award” at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark.
“Canada garnered today’s award for its unwavering commitment to stand firm in its inaction throughout these negotiations,” a media release states.
It does not feel good to be a Canadian nowadays. Frankly, Harper (that’s our PM) and his cabinet make me sick.
Every now and then the company removes from consideration one of its superhuman job candidates, to avoid an over-concentration of brilliance. Google, you see, doesn’t want to become a black hole of awesome.
Google VP Bradley Horowitz (pictured) explained things at the annual Supernova conference in San Francisco the other day. He said the company intentionally (and selflessly!) leaves some brainpower outside its walls, according to the Register.
I can hardly find the words to express what I think of this company…
As someone who has struggled with weight his entire life, David A. Kessler, M.D., wanted to know why chocolate chip cookies had such power over him, why he ate when he wasn’t hungry—and what he could do about it. So seven years ago the physician and former FDA commissioner set out to discover what drives us to eat too much. He talked to neurobiologists, psychologists and food-industry insiders. In a new book, The End of Overeating (Rodale), Kessler shares what he found.
If you have 130,000.00 to spare, look no further. This gadget should please any plutocrat out there :)
From a group calling themselves Electronic Civil Disobedience comes the Transborder Immigrant Tool, a simple mobile application intended to aid and abet border-crossers from Mexico to the United States.
This GPS app is built to work on the cheapest cell phones available. It brings to mind every petty-but-illegal transgression the casual user could commit and stretches the boundaries of the permissibility of tech’s uses for plausibly illegal means. The next time you use P2P or bit torrent clients to download media or use an iPhone app to detect police radars, think about this mobile application and how it reflects on American law and the Internet.
