shooting

Photos: US Army tests virtual battlefields

News This system is designed to help soldiers learn shooting fundamentals before they ever pick up a gun with live rounds. In Georgia's Fort Benning, the US Army does its infantry training. While much of a recruit's introduction to the

Tags: screens, training, skills, progress

10 July 2008, 9:39

UK crime spree at GTA IV midnight launch

News The PlayStation 3 release in particular was riddled with launch-related crimes, including a mugging, a store robbery, a launch line hold-up, and a shooting. Midnight launches aren't always the gaming industry's proudest moments.

Tags: store, line, industry, man

1 May 2008, 9:54

Photos: MythBusters test sharks and ninjas

News Among the experiments -- tenderising steak with dynamite and by shooting it out of an air cannon at 645kph. MythBuster Tory Belleci creates a custom dart for an experiment that will test whether ninjas could really lie under water for hours waiting...

Tags: shoot, weight, water, air

3 March 2008, 9:31

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News The upshot, as promised by Kodak: better picture quality, or the same picture quality when shooting in dim light conditions such as those that prevail in most indoor scenes. Kodak hopes turning one aspect of chip design on its head will help...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11

Photos: Technology of 3D movies

News The camera's lenses can be positioned a variable distance apart for different shooting circumstances. Artificially created 3D images all share a basic design: sending two slightly different views to each eye.

Tags: lens, eye, views, frame

6 November 2007, 9:02

News.blog: New top-end Olympus dSLR in October?

News Five frames per second shooting with a maximum shutter speed of 1/8000 sec. A weather-sealed extra battery compartment that can aid in shooting vertically-oriented pictures. Olympus publicly showed prototypes of its new top-end digital SLR in March...

13 July 2007, 8:44

Putting hi-def video on your phone

News The cameras on the phones will also be capable of shooting 12 megapixels of photos per second. Apple will release one of the most highly touted phones in history this week. But by next year, those first iPhones could be woefully outdated.

26 June 2007, 9:17

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News As a way to deal with low-light shooting problems, Chute said, Kodak's technology is a compelling alternative to expensive image stabilisation, which moves lens elements or the sensor to counteract camera shake, or post-processing, which uses...

14 June 2007, 9:28

iGoogle offers a personal touch

News If I type 'broadway shows' into Google it would actually come back and understand that I like musicals and (prefer) peppy to sad… on the whole that's what we're really shooting for. Google wants you to express yourself.

1 May 2007, 10:00

Canon announces new high-end SLR

News Among the camera's new features are a higher shooting rate, a new image-processing chip, a live display, a more sensitive image sensor and a self-cleaning sensor. Canon has countered Nikon's competitive new SLR cameras, revamping its high...

23 February 2007, 8:50

Sundance festival sees scope in new tech

News By shooting in video, he got "stunning" visual results while not having to interrupt the astronauts mid-interview for film changes or making them sweat under hot lights, he said. That toolbox, however, has expanded well beyond digital cameras and...

18 January 2007, 10:25

News.blog: Nintendo sued over Wii strap

News The controller lets players physically interact with a game -- swinging it like a golf club or a tennis racquet, for example, or holding it like a gun in shooting games. File this one under 'you had to see this one coming'.

21 December 2006, 9:11

News.blog: Germany to criminalise violent games?

News According to The Guardian, they argued that since Bosse was an avid player of the terrorist-themed PC game, the bloody content may have desensitised him to real-life violence to such an extent that he went on a shooting rampage.

13 December 2006, 10:39

Is the Wiimote violating a patent?

News The contoller enables players to physically interact with the game -- swinging it like a racquet in a tennis game or holding it like a gun in a shooting game, for example. Nintendo of America has been sued by Interlink Electronics over alleged...

12 December 2006, 8:39

Adobe attempts to unify image formats

News Shooting raw gives me so many opportunities to make adjustments before I start the actual editing process," said Ray Barlow, a hobbyist nature photographer in Grimsby, Ontario. That's something at this time we're not able to do, shooting directly...

21 November 2006, 9:48