Something weird has happened in the jungles. A photographer was shooting pics of some monkeys when one monkey made off with a camera. Said monkey proceeded to take about 100 images, mostly of the jungle floor or blurry something’s.
However, a few of the images of the macaque turned out very nice and show a monkey posing for selfies. I can only assume the monkey is looking for a date on Plenty of Fish. A monkey taking a nice selfie is strange enough, but the story gets stranger still. Someone uploaded the image to Wikipedia, and the photographer who owns the camera saw it and asked Wikimedia to take it down.
Wikimedia refused to remove the image. Why? According to Wikimedia, the photographer that owns the camera doesn’t own the copyright to the image. Wikimedia thinks that the monkey owns the copyright since it pressed the shutter button.
Would you eat your own face? It sounds like an odd question, grotesque even, but it’s not what you think. It’s something that Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation wants you to do every day with your daily cup of Joe.
The company actually makes custom toasters including the Selfie Toaster which imprints an image of your face onto every slice of bread you toast using it. All you have to do is upload a picture of yourself when you purchase the toaster. Using PhotoShop and a CNC plasma cutter, your image is transferred onto a metal plate, which is then fitted into the toaster.
And voilà – you’ve now got custom selfie toast that you can bite into every day.
It’s obviously a novelty, more than anything else, but it’s also a fun pick-me-up every morning while you have breakfast before starting another potentially stress-filled day.
Fancy spreading some jam on your mug and eating your face every day? Sounds a bit crazy but that’s what you’ll be doing if you get one of these custom toasters from the Vermont Novelty Toaster Corp. The Selfie Toaster is essentially that: a toaster that lets you toast an imprint of your face onto every slice of bread you pop into it.
All you have to do is upload your selfie and fork over 75 bucks. Vermont will then use Photoshop and a CNC plasma cutter to “transfer” your face from the photo onto a metal plate, which is then fitted into the toaster.
The result? Selfie toast. What will people think of next?
Take a selfie every day? Then this mirror is for you. It’s aptly called the S.E.L.F.I.E.–which is the abbreviation of the “Self Enhancing Live Feed Image Engine.” It seems kind of forced, but at least they made it work with the acronym. Staying true to its name, the Selfie mirror takes your selfies without your outstretched arm or that monopod showing up in the frame.
It’s powered by a Mac Mini computer hidden on the other side. The mirror is equipped with a webcam and LED lights that are connected to an Arduino chip, which functions as your timer. All you have to do is say cheese, and voila! The mirror takes a snapshot and posts it to your social media profile in a snap.
I am not a big fan of the selfie. In fact, I have never taken one of myself. I have some folks on my Facebook friends list that are prolific in their selfie taking; I tend to taunt them mercilessly for the act. One woman has taken some of the only cool bathroom selfies I have ever seen.
Instagram user Mirrorsme draws on the mirror and then snaps a selfie of her artwork. The cool part is that the artwork is designed to integrate her into the creation. For instance, there is one selfie where she drew a Mario level and snapped her pic standing in just the right place for Mario’s hat to be on her head.
I also like the Batman version that features a friend in Joker guise. It helps that the woman is adorable as well.
Check out more of her clever mirror selfies over on her Instagram feed.
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Leaked yesterday, Xperia C3 has now been officially confirmed by Sony, who claims without any doubts that this is the world’s best smartphone for selfies.
It does not matter if you’re late in the game, as long as you show up with the best player. At least that’s what the Japanese tech giant thinks. Its latest smartphone, the self-titled best mobile device for selfies, is by no means flagship material, but still manages to bring together some decent specs in what turns out to be a budget-friendly entry to mid-range smartphone.
The 5MP front camera is definitely the main selling point of Sony Xperia C3, and the addition of an LED flash turns shooting self-portraits into a breeze, even in low-light conditions. I don’t know why would anyone ever want to hold an LED flash right in front of their eyes, but sometimes, art calls for sacrifices. Still, Sony claims that the front-facing LED flash is soft, meaning that it won’t traumatize your eyes that much while taking selfies.
Among the features that make the front-facing wide-lens camera so special are the Smile Shutter and Superior Auto mode, along with the AR Effect. None of these made their first appearance on the Xperia C3 selfie-snapper, but the features will undoubtedly be appreciated by the ones who enjoy this type of photography so much.
On its back, the smartphone features an 8MP camera with an Exmor RS sensor that will capture vividly colored pictures in various conditions. After shooting whomever tickles you fancy, you can look at the photos on the 5.5 inch display, whose 1280 x 720 resolution should be more than enough for such tasks.
Other than that, Xperia C3 is equipped with 1GB of RAM, 8GB of internal storage that can be furthermore expanded with a microSD card, and a quad-core 1.2Ghz CPU. Considering that the smartphone features aa Adreno 305 GPU, it should fare nicely in modern games. Software-wise, Sony’s selfie-snapper runs Android 4.4 KitKat, but will definitely be updated to Android L, if Google will launch that version in the near future.
Now there’s even a Romanian movie called #selfie (now that’s a title that brings together a pop-culture phenomenon and hashtags), so I’m not surprised that this particular type of photography turned popular that easily.
Love selfies? Then you’ll love the iLuv Selfy smartphone case, which was designed for users who take selfies and groufies almost obsessively. The case is simple and unobtrusive enough. But the selfie factor lies with the remote trigger functionality, as it comes with a detachable remote at the back to trigger the phone’s rear camera.
Aside from added convenience, the case gives the would-be selfie and groufie takers to pose and compose themselves before taking a shot. Since the shutter is triggered remotely, they also have ample time to position themselves to make sure that no one’s head gets cut off in the shot.
The iLuv Selfy smartphone case is currently up for funding on Kickstarter, where a minimum pledge of $50 will get you one of your very own.
I have to admit when I first heard of drone selfies, I thought that actual drones were taking selfies of themselves.
That seemed a bit odd, but it made a lot more sense when I saw Amit Gupta’s drone selfie video. It simply blew my mind. The zoom out is quite amazing.
There are now a few more dronies popping up – so it’s almost sort of a thing now. The trick of a good dronie is to find a good location, because otherwise it just looks ordinary.
When Google launched Shelfies (Shareable Selfies) for Gmail, the search giant was quite sure that “selfie” will be the word of the year. iStrategyLabs must think the same, since they created a magic mirror that takes pictures of you and posts them to Twitter automatically.
According to iStrategyLabs, SELFIE is now an acronym that stands for Self Enhancing Live Feed Image Engine, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that this company decided to name their mirror cabinet like that. The very definition of the word selfie includes references to social media, so it only makes sense that a mirror that helps you take selfies posts them to a social network automatically. Of course, some people might be concerned of what happens if pictures of them in indecent postures get posted on the Web, but fortunately the manufacturer has taken care of that aspect, as well.
The two-way mirror hides behind it a Mac mini, an Arduino microcontroller and a webcam. The latter is responsible with capturing the image, while the first two do the facial recognition part and share the image to Twitter.
CMO of iStrategyLabs DJ Saul explained how this product came to be: “We started thinking about how we could create a seamless and fun experience, where the trigger would be nothing more that a smile. The SELFIE mirror helps to demonstrate what’s possible by bringing together hardware, software and a great idea.”
In an interview with Gizmag, iStrategy Director of Ops, Zach Saale pointed out that “The Mac mini uses the OpenCV facial recognition library to detect smiles, and when one is detected a serial command is sent to the Arduino to initiate the countdown sequence. It takes roughly one and a half seconds for a smile to be recognized, as we found any less than that would create false-positives.”
That one and a half second needed before taking a picture can literally save reputations, as otherwise a lot of embarrassing photos would be shot and posted directly to social media. All in all, the product is great for whoever enjoys taking selfies, even though DJ Saul admitted that “I wouldn’t say we’re an advocate, but it’s certainly a fascinating social phenomenon.”
With such a name for their product, iStrategyLabs might as well welcome lawsuits, as there is already a Selfie Mirror in the shape of a photo booth developed by Smashbox Cosmetics that is equipped with a Canon DSLR and a DNP RX1 printer.
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