When I tell people I am a ’sports photographer’ they often follow-up asking, “With what paper?” So I try to explain how I don’t work for a paper but instead work a team. I thought that was easy enough to understand but have found that it isn’t. Some people have even thought that players hire me. So I thought I would write about all the three main kinds of photographers (there are more but these are the big three). Read the rest of this entry »

Currently there are two main methods, accessible to consumers, to store energy: batteries or capacitors. Capacitors have the advantage of being able to charge and discharge energy in a matter of seconds; the disadvantage being they are large and bulky. Batteries are much more compact, but by using chemical reaction to store and discharge power, they take hours to charge and discharge.

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Researchers at Georgia Tech have created a prototype device that can make digital camera and video cameras unusable.

The devise is able to detect CCD chips in these devices and targets beam of light at them, casting a bright white light on the chip. This makes the resulting image overexposed.

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