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Friday, 1 July 2016

This Anti-Paparazzi Scarf Makes Flash Photography Impossible

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Avoiding the paparazzi usually involves celebrities covering their faces or surrounding themselves with body guards, but why do that when you can just toss a stylish scarf around your neck? This anti-paparazzi scarf lets you do just that.

It’s called the Ishu, and it’s the latest piece of anti-paparazzi clothing meant to render flash photography impossible. Made from highly reflective fabric, a camera’s flash makes it light up brilliant white, darkening the rest of the image almost into oblivion.

You can see it in action in the video below:

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Originally reported on by BuzzFeed, the Ishu is the brainchild of Saif Siddiqui, who says he was inspired to create it in 2009 when a group photo of his was ruined by a bicycle reflector. Six years and a bunch of research later, the highly reflective Ishu burst onto the scene and quickly made its way onto the heads and necks of prominent actors, musicians, and sports stars.

Based on the sample images on the Ishu website, it does its job very well:

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Siddiqui isn’t the first to try and market anti-paparazzi reflective clothing. The Flashback line by DJ Chris Holmes made viral waves when it was announced in early 2015, but has since dropped off the map entirely.

Fortunately, the same fate doesn’t seem to lie in wait for the Ishu scarf (and the tie and case Siddiqui has listed on the Ishu). Ishu products will launch globally in August, but you can already check them out and pre-order them here starting today. Prices range from $268 to $478.

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Hubble Photographs Stunning Aurora the Size of Earth on Jupiter

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Photographers go gaga over the Aurora Borealis on Earth, capturing amazing timelapses and photographs and even live video from 35,000 feet. But no Earthly aurora will compare with what Hubble just captured swirling atop Jupiter.

The photo is breathtaking, all the more so once you understand that the aurora you’re looking at in the image below covers an area larger than our Earth.

These light shows at Jupiter’s poles actually never stop, revealed NASA, they’re always available for study and capture. The image below was created by combining an earlier Hubble photograph of Jupiter itself with new images of the auroras captured by the Hubble Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph at the far end of the ultraviolet light spectrum.

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The image, released earlier today, has captured the world’s imagination just as NASA spacecraft Juno is arriving at Jupiter after a 5 year long voyage.

Among other things, the spacecraft will monitor these massive auroras created by the solar system’s largest and most powerful magnetosphere, while Hubble takes pictures of them every day to see what impact solar wind and other conditions exert.

Here are some composite video sequence Hubble released alongside the standalone image:

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“These auroras are very dramatic and among the most active I have ever seen,” principal investigator of the study Jonathan Nichols, from the University of Leicester, UK, said in a statement. “It almost seems as if Jupiter is throwing a fireworks party for the imminent arrival of Juno.”

A fireworks display worthy of the largest planet in our solar system.

To learn more about the image above or the Juno spacecraft and its imminent mission, head over to the Hubble website by clicking here.

(via Hubble News Center via CNN)

Image credits: Image by NASA, ESA, and J. Nichols (University of Leicester).

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SanDisk Announces World’s Fastest 256GB microSD Card

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The memory card wars are fought on two playing fields: size and speed. And SanDisk is claiming victories on both fields today with the release of the 256GB SanDisk Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card—the world’s fastest 256GB microSD card.

For a long time it seemed microSD wasn’t getting much R&D love, but with the rise of action cameras and especially drones that depend on these cards, the money has returned and the advancements keep coming. Samsung’s recently-released 256GB card was the “highest capacity microSD card in its class,” and now SanDisk is pairing that high capacity with some much-needed speed.

Capable of storing up to 14 hours of 4K video, the card boasts “unmatched transfer speeds” up to 100MB/s and write speeds up to 90MB/s. SanDisk is earmarking the Extreme microSDXC UHS-I card as “ideal for high-performance drones, action cameras, and 4K-capable smartphones, among other devices.”

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Alongside the super-fast 256GB Extreme card, SanDisk is also releasing a slightly slower but still speedy 256GB Ultra microSDXC UHS-I Premium Edition card. This one is geared more towards typical consumers. Boasting up to 24 hours of Full HD video storage and transfer speeds up to 95MB/s, SanDisk says this one is “ideal for Android-based smartphone and tablet users who don’t want to worry about running out of space on their devices.”

Both cards are also built to withstand some punishment. They’re waterproof, temperature-proof, shock proof, and X-ray proof… although, curiously, SanDisk didn’t mention if they’d survive a trip through your digestive system.

The Extreme card will be available globally sometime “in the fourth quarter of this year” for $200, and the Ultra Premium Edition arrives in August for $150.

(via DPReview)

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White House Photographer Pete Souza Reveals What’s in His Bag

Full Specs and New Photo of Fuji X-T2 Leaked

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Fuji is expected to officially announce the new X-T2 on July 7th, but there may not be much mystery left when the announcement lands. A full spec list and new photo have just leaked and, if they’re accurate, they don’t leave much to the imagination.

The photo above appeared on digicame-info, and while this is not the first time we’ve seen photos of the X-T2, DI also released the most comprehensive spec list yet.

According to them, the X-T2 will sport a 24.3MP sensor, X Processor Pro engine, 4K at 30fps and 1080p at 60fps, 1/8000 sec max shutter and 1/32000 max electronic shutter, ISO range from 200 to 12800, hybrid 325-point AF system, 2.36M-dot EVF with 100fps refresh rate, tilting 3-inch 1.62M-dot LCD, Dual UHS-II supported SD card slots, +/-5 exposure comp, and 256-segment metering.

We have no reason to doubt digicame-info’s specs—they’re consistently right when announcing specs and leaking images this close to an official announcement—but we won’t have to wait long to confirm. X-shooters should mark July 7th on your calendars and keep an eye out for more leaks in the coming days.