Chuck Jones

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THE MAMIYA “FAST ACTION CAMERA”

According to some reports, over 740 police officers were injured in the violent riots that broke out on May Day, 1952 in Tokyo, Japan. Many police officers were injured while simply trying to take photographs of the protesters and as a result, authorities demanded a camera that would be easy to aim without raising it to the eye. The Mamiya “Fast Action Camera” was their answer. Thirty units were delivered to Osaka police headquarters in 1954 but in the trails surrounding the riots concern was raised that the Fast Action Cameras could be confused with real weapons, frightening future subjects with unpredictable results (ie. hurling stones at the photographers), and thusly, the whole idea was scrapped and the pistol cameras were never put into any real on-the-street use.

Two Ju 87s of III./StG 3 are captured by Neville Duke’s camera gun as he closes astern in an engagement near Castel Benito on 21 January 1943. He duly shot two of the dive-bombers down (N F Duke via N L R Franks)

It’s the second as well as the last time for me to participate in the HKBU short story writing competition and the interesting thing is,  I got “merit” again  but still, I’m proud of myself ! So this is the story I’ve written for this competition:

  Prompt 1 -phone zombie & camera gun

Arm in arm,we held tightly to each other, feeling the rapid pulse pounding underneath our skin, tasting the…

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GameBoy And Arduino gbg-8 Photo Printing Gun

Russian media artist Dmitry Morozov has unveiled a new Arduino-based project he has created using a pea soup green original GameBoy created originally by Nintendo, together with a camera, optical relays and an original GameBoy thermal printer that has been modified to meet the new devices requirements.

As the title of the article suggests when you pull the trigger on the GameBoy camera gun a picture of whatever you are pointing out is printed out using the thermal printer.

Original Source: Geeky Gadgets