Canon 5D Mark II helmet mount attracts Hollywood’s attention

Details are a bit light on this one, but the Planet 5D blog has received an email from the director of photography on 24, who himself received an email from the DP of Dollhouse, who passed on a video of a Canon 5D Mark II helmet mount built by the folks at Panavision. The rig [...]

Roundup: VCs more confident, Apple patents future iPhone ideas

Here’s the latest action:
Confidence is coming back among venture capitalists — So says the Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Index, which measures the mood among dozens of well-known VCs.
Facebook sued for click fraud — RootZoo says its own analytics show discrepancies over how many Facebook users clicked on RootZoo’s ads.

Gawker says ad revenue up 35 percent [...]

Future iPhones May Recognize Objects, Faces, Alter Your Voice [Apple]

If this load of recently filed Apple patents become a reality, your iPhone may become a perfect tool for spies soon, with real world object identification, faces recognition, voice alteration, and text filtering, among other things:
• Real world object identification: This function will let you point at any object and obtain information about it after [...]