Here's another interesting product from Sony Electronics: the GPS-CS1K. This GPS device will help you map out the places you've been - using the digital photos you yourself took.

How does it work? Using the time stamp from any of Sony's digital cameras or camcorders and the time and location recordings from the GPS-CS1 GPS device, you can create a map to showcase your globe-trotting. You just have to transfer the photos you took to a computer and import the logged data from the GPS device before the GPS Image Tracker software synchronizes the information.

With the help of the Picture Motion Browser software included in the latest Sony digicams, your online map will have your photos as virtual markers of the places you've visited. Cool, huh? Just imagine pictures you've taken with faces of your friends or relatives popping up whenever you click locations like Barcelona or Florida on the map.

The 12-channel GPS device - which weighs two ounces, is 3 1/2-inches long and comes with a carabiner to easily attach to your bag or belt - will cost around $135 and will be available starting September.

If you have a problem keeping your photo's subject in the middle of your frame and you can't keep your hands from shaking too much when taking pictures, then the new Casio Exilim EX-Z700 might just be what you need.

One of the most interesting features of the EX-Z700 is Auto Framing which, as its name implies, helps you center your subjects in the frame. Taking pictures of dynamic subjects like active children will not be problematic at all with Casio's new digicam.

As for those blurry pics, you won't have to worry about them because the EX-Z700 also has Anti-Shake DPS as one of its amazing features.

The EX-Z700 is the newest addition to Casio's Exilim family, and it definitely stands out - its 2.7-inch LCD is big and bright, and mind you, this is a 7.5-megapixel camera. I don't know about you, but that's enough for me to want one.

There's no word yet on its availability and pricing, but rest assured we'll keep you posted

Sony has announced its new Memory Stick Entertainment Packs. (We told you about the previous batch here.) These contain either 1GB or 2GB Memory sticks bundled with an installer DVD. This is (obviously) a collaboration between Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Sony Electronics.

Aside from being able to use the Memory Sticks in devices such as Sony's digital cameras, camcorders and some Sony Ericsson phones, you can also use these to watch movies in your PSP.

The Packs come with installer DVDs for PCs which contain four Sony movies, one of which you can access with the complimentary unlock code, and then transfer to your PSP's Memory Stick media.

The movies included in the Memory Stick Entertainment Pack are "S.W.A.T.," XXX: State of the Union," "The Grudge" and "Hitch."

The 2GB and 1GB Memory Stick Entertainment Packs will become available next month and will cost $100 and $60 respectively.

It has been quite some time since we last heard from Bibble Labs, and now you might consider yourselves lucky because finally, Bibble Labs has returned again to release its latest version of Bibble Pro.

Bibble Pro 4.8 is a free update to its professional workflow solution. This application offers an integrated browser, powerful batch processing, hotkeys assigned by the user, one-click image correction, a Photoshop plug-in, a flexible renaming system, and a advanced lens correction. With this 4.8 update though, the Lens correction tool will be more powerful.

There will also be an additional application that will allow robust Black and White conversion and a Spot Color feature. Bibble Pro 4.8 also has added support for additional digital cameras and comes in two versions: the Universal Binary that costs $70 and the Pro version with added copy/paste functions, multithread operation, digital noise correction/suppression, work queues and tethered shooting for $130. This application is compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux systems.

Sony wants its electronic products to be readily available to consumers via automated kiosks strategically placed in malls and other such places.

But be sure not to call these vending machines. Gower Smith of Zoom Systems, which is providing the technology for Sony, says that these are robotic stores and not vending machines. These specially-designed kiosks will come in either of two versions, one four feet and the other eight feet wide, both with a touch screen where displayed products' info and specs, as well as trailers and music videos, will be shown. Movie  will also be shown in here.

To purchase a product from the robotic store, the consumer only has to select a product from the screen, swipe his credit card and wait for the robotic arm to deliver the purchased item.

This "experiment" will only be considered a success by Sony if it actually increases sales. The company will be watching the early sales returns of the three robotic stores placed in Santa Rosa, Ca., Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado. Thanks to jpcguy89 for the heads'-up!

Ifyou're in, say, an exclusive vacation spot or in a private party and you don't want to get your photos taken (most probably you're a celebrity or you're just afraid your parents might see what you've been up to), then you might just want to invest in this newly developed system that can block digital camera functions.

A prototype of this system has been completed and produced by a team at the Intelligent Computing division of Georgia Tech College of Computing. The materials used to build this device were things you could easily get your hands on: lighting equipment, camera-mounted sensors, a computer and a projector.

This device works by scanning a given area for the reflectivity and the shape of image-producing sensors commonly used in digital cameras. According to those in charge of the project, the camera-neutralizing technology could have commercial promise in these two major fields - protecting restricted areas from being photographed and stopping video copying in areas such as theaters.

At the moment, this technology only uses two cameras and visible light to search for CCDs. If it's going to be used in the future in business centers or government offices, then developers think that they will be replacing the said equipment with photo-detecting transistors and invisible infrared lasers to find contraband cameras.

This system works neither on film cameras (these don't have CCD sensors) nor on single-lens reflex cameras (because of their folding-mirror system).

The camera-neutralizing technology will be developed further and be made available soon.

Finally, a new CCD image sensor that breaks the 100-million pixel barrier has been created. This new image sensor was developed by the Semiconductor Technology Associates (STA) and manufactured by Dalsa Semiconductor in Quebec.

The CCD is a kind of image sensor typically used in digital cameras. This is a light-sensitive integrated circuit which stores and then displays image data after it converts each pixel into an electrical charge. This electrical charge is important as it's directly related to a certain color in the color spectrum.

This 4x4-inch charge-coupled device has a configuration of 10,560 x 10,560 pixels, making it the world's highest resolution image sensor.

The CCD image sensor was developed by STA for the U.S. Naval Observatory's Astrometry Department with funding from the Navy's Small Business Innovation Research program.

We do know that most of the time, you really shouldn't scrimp if you want to get the best accessories for your camera. But in this case, you won't need loads of it.

There are many makers of camera lenses out there but the ones being sold are just too expensive to experiment with. (A Nikon shift lens goes for over $1000.) In DigiHack, dennison provides us with an inexpensive way to create your own shift lens. You'll need a lens, a medium-sized flexible rubber plunger, a cardboard and a plastic body cap.

Using a knife, you hollow out the inside part and smoothen any burrs or rough spots.

Take your plunger and cut a hole in the top where you're going to stick in your lens (in this case, he used an 80mm Carl Zeiss lens). Make sure that the hole is tight enough so the lens is supported.

You then cut out a ring from the cardboard for your backing. The inner circle should be the same as the diameter and circumference of the lens cap and the outer part is the same as the plunger's bottom. You should hotglue this together. You can then attach it to the camera.

Here's an example of a picture he took. Notice that the eyelashes of the model are far clearer than most other parts of the picture, giving the photographer control over the viewer's gaze.

... Although not with a flick of a wand; more like with a press of a finger.

Han Shing Technology has released yet another amazing digital camera that promises to capture good quality images with its 3.1-megapixel sensor. But because images will be interpolated to the higher resolution, the pictures you've taken will  look like you've snapped away with a 12-megapixel camera. Yup, it's that amazing.

But with all seemingly-amazing products there's always a catch, and this digicam has one too: it only has an 8x digital zoom and no adequate optical zoom lens.

But don't fret (too much) as the HS-DV338A can also record videos in MPEG-4 format and has a 2-inch LTPS-TFT LCD display. This is powered by two AAA batteries and has a built-in memory of (only) 32MB, with no visible expansion slot of any kind.

The HS-DV338A comes in glossy black and glossy white.

The Legacy Project aims to accomplish exactly this. Members of the project are photographers who want to not only capture the largest photo but also capture and preserve a part of California's history.

An old hangar has been turned into the biggest camera that will capture an image of the former El Toro Marine Corps Station using the principle of camera obscura.

The base was decommissioned in 1999 after more than fifty years of service. Now that Lennar Corp. has bought the land, the entire place will be turned into a development that will include a museum district, suburban homes, a sports complex and a 375-acre park.

Since 2002, the Legacy Project has taken more than 80,000 photos of the old station to document the transitions it has been going through. The next biggest project now is to take a photo with a panoramic view of the old station, with a 33 x111 ft piece of white cloth covered in light-sensitive emulsion (20 gallons of it) acting as a "negative."

The fabric needs to be exposed for up to 10 days which will then be developed using 200 gallons of black-and-white developer solution and 600 gallons of fixer in a huge tub of pool siding.

This attempt to take the world's largest photograph with the world's largest camera (which will also be included in the Guinness Book of World Records) will end when the old hangar will also be torn down and the entire Marine Station will be gone for good.