Look what I took on my mobile

"Acclaimed photographer and artist Henry Reichhold, has taken pictures in nine cities on five continents with a Nokia N95 phone. Thee images are up to 7m (23ft) wide panoramas. Metro reports via Spluch.

"Reichhold took the pictures by using sequential firing to get six shots in a row, building up 30 images of the sky, each with one-third overlap.

The 52-year-old , from South Kensington in West London, started using his mobile because it was small and convenient to carry around.

"When people see the potential in a mobile phone, they will be stunned by the colour and the quality and, hopefully, look at the phones in a different light," he added.

The pictures are featured in his Connected World exhibition – which runs in 'real' and 'virtual' (Second Life) format. Click here for
wherabouts dates and details

Related, sort of:

-- Nude photography taken with camera phone - At the IFA 2007 Guido Karp exhibits his experience with his mobile phone and showcased an impressive series of photos that are part of a series that will be available starting October 2007 in his book “The Nudes - Photography with a Cyber-shot mobile”.

mPedigree to Track Meds in Africa

Ethan Zuckerman, an activist for economic development in Africa and a research fellow from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, reports about a new project called mPedigree, to fight pharma fakes in the developing world with cellular phones: [via
MedGadget]

"The project, called mPedigree, seeks to build a system first in Ghana, and then throughout Africa, that tracks drugs from their original producers all the way to the pharmacy shelves, allowing each buyer in the chain to ensure that they're dealing with a legimate product, thanks to RFID tags"

Japanese like to print camphone pics

More than one-half of Japanese consumers say they take pictures with their camera phones several times a week, according to the Mobile Imaging and Printing Consortium, reports eMarketer..

"Camera-phone photographers do like print copies of some of their work. Four in 10 consumers said they had printed out pictures taken with their camera phones. More than one-half of working women and grandmothers said they had done so.

... About 40% of respondents surveyed said that there were photos they had taken by camera phone that they would like to print."

Beheading cameraphone video seized

Police have found video clips showing the beheadings of a soldier and a Buddhist, while three men were shot dead by suspected Islamic rebels in Thailand's restive south, officials said today. Herald Sun reports

"One video clip showed a militant holding the head of the slain soldier," said an army official who declined to be named.

The gruesome clips had been taken by mobile phones which were seized by authorities during a raid Sunday on militant hideouts in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces bordering Malaysia."

12-megapixel camera phones?

Broadcom has created a multimedia processor it said can put high-definition video, 3D gaming and 12-megapixel camera capabilities on mobile phones.

The low-power VideoCore III processor is part of Broadcom's effort to power a new generation of mobile phones that deliver a high-quality multimedia experience, the company said.

[Press release via Techworld]

Nokia links up to direct-dialed video

News Corp., Sony Pictures and CNN have struck a deal to distribute video directly to Nokia handsets, sidestepping mobile carrier decks, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

"Nokia has quietly started embedding links on its N95 multimedia phone around the globe that connect users with mobile sites run by the media giants and other content providers.

A Nokia spokeswoman confirmed that the company plans to announce additions to its Video Center as early as this week ahead of the MIPCOM conference in Cannes. She added that Nokia eventually will include the links on phones other than the N95.

In the case of News Corp., users can travel straight to the company's Jamster and Jamba sites and get free access to Fox "mobisodes" like "24" as well as to video clips and outtakes from such films as "The Simpsons Movie" and "Borat," Fox Mobile Entertainment president Lucy Hood said."

Video goggles for your small screens

Watching a full length feature on your cell phone or iPod screen can be tiring to the eyes. ABC7 News sugests you try out some video goggles.

"Just a few years ago, the first video goggles cost more than a thousand dollars, were so big and cumbersome they covered your face, and the video players were the size of a shoe box. Things have changed. Today, they're as light as eyeglasses, cost less than $500, and the video players will fit in your pocket.

One model called myvu sells for less than $200 and works with any video player, even camcorders, DVDs and some cellphones."