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NeuVision 3 Turns Smartphones into Mobile Steadicams

Posted: 14 May 2015 01:42 PM PDT

Not so long ago, shooting professional videos was only possible with very expensive equipment, but the emergence of smartphones and affordable handheld gimbals, such as the NeuVision 3, enables everyone to become a videographer.

When it comes to image stabilization, it’s much easier to achieve that when shooting photos than videos, and the fact that a lot of cameras and smartphones include that technology is proof of that. Optical image stabilization has made its way into affordable devices, but it still seemed we had to wait a little bit longer if we wanted to shoot professional videos. Handheld gimbals do a great job at stabilizing the image while recording, even if the videographer happens to move chaotically at times. Basically, such a device can make the difference between a found footage clip from a horror movie and a dreamy sequence shot perfectly.

Needless to say, there are plenty of scenarios when a camera stabilizer could come in handy. First of all, people shooting videos while performing sports might find this whole idea interesting, as sports and action cameras are not that great when it comes to stabilization.

Secondly, Neuvision 3 can be used for taking selfies, and even for recording yourself or your friends. There are plenty of selfie sticks out there, but none of them offers image stabilization, and if that’s one of the things you’re looking for, then you’d be delighted to find out about this additional functionality.

Not at last, you can take footage of your loved ones without you having to be excluded from the picture. That must have been one of the greatest drawbacks in the past, as the person behind the camera didn’t make it in the video (or if he did, the image was very shaky, or someone else had to handle the camera). That’s no longer the case with the Neuvision 3, which enables amateur videographers to lock onto a subject and film him or her without any having to fear that the resulting video will look unprofessional.

GearBest has the Neuvision 3 smartphone camera stabilizer listed for $134.51, but you can get it for $119.99 by using the coupon code NVS3 at checkout. If you want to start a career in filmmaking, but are on a tight budget, the Neuvision is definitely a good starting point, not to mention a very affordable one, considering how expensive these handheld gimbals can run.

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And so it begins: the PS4, hacked

Posted: 14 May 2015 12:53 PM PDT

A year and six months is all it took a group of Brazilian hackers to jailbreak the PS4 – or so these people claim.

According to a report from Brazilian website UOL, Brazil is already seeing its first wave of “jailbroken” (AKA hacked) PS4 consoles, with many pre-loaded games inside them. This has nothing to do with the infamous shared account system, but is instead a process of soldering a chip into the console, and then “connecting a laptop and loading the games”.

“What we do is turn a console into a clone of another. We copy the information of the bios and its processor[…] Everything bought on a PS4 can be copied to another system, and this is in itself a better system than shared accounts”. The process uses a Raspberry Pi, and is already being offered in several stores of Sao Paulo. It costs in between $100 and $133 USD, and then the store returns the console to the user, preloaded with games. Seemingly, these games can even be updated and played online without any issues

The UOL team claims to have tried out this system, which does allegedly work. According to these hackers, the idea behind this hack comes from Rusia.

The truth is, even if this was relatively quick – compared to what happened with the PS3, at least – this is a common occurrence in the console world and the video game industry when it comes to popular video game consoles. Ever since the PlayStation 1 and all the way to the Xbox 360, Wii and Dreamcast, all consoles have eventually fallen prey to hackers, and companies have had to live with that.

Regardless of how effective and functional this hack is – there is no reason to not trust UOL, who are themselves a reputable news source – we still don’t know how Sony will react. Probably with an eventual firmware update patching this vulnerability. Time will tell.

In the meanwhile, Sony haven’t made any comments.

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