Technologizer

HP Technology Repairs Damaged Photos

Thursday, August 13, 2009

Old crumpled, folded, and otherwise damaged photographs may have gotten a new lease on life. HP’s research wing has devised a technique to remove creases from photographs using standard scanners, according to reports published Aug. 12. Once flaws are detected, an automated process takes over to repair photographs using techniques including infilling and texture synthesis. A [...]

Polaroid: A Great Name Taken in Vain

Friday, April 17, 2009

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Maybe it’s because I consider the SX-70 one of the very greatest gadgets ever invented. Or perhaps it’s because I grew up a few miles from the company’s headquarters in Cambridge, Mass. Whatever the reason, I feel protective about the Polaroid brand–and boy, am I sorry to see what’s happened to it over the past [...]

That’s LIFE–on Google Image Search

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

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Here’s an unexpected treat: Google Image Search is putting millions of photos from LIFE magazine online for the first time. And not just all the wonderful photos that filled LIFE for decades, either–they’re digitizing the entire LIFE archive, 97 percent of which consists of images that were never published anywhere. All of a suddent, Google [...]