Tech-photos: Imaging related articles.

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I'm cleanup up a bunch of archived images and stories. This post is all on imaging of various sorts, under a cut to avoid taking over your friends list.

Canon 1200-mm telephoto lens. Yours for only $99,000(US)

Lensbabies 3G allows you to bend your lens to create different effects.

The U.S. Library of Congress is putting its archive of photos online. The site is http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/

The National Museum of Public Health is following the LoC's lead and putting their historical medical photos online. The archive starts at http://www.flickr.com/photos/99129398@N00 but more are being uploaded all the time.

Need a place to show those images? How about in your new backyard drive-in theatre. Yours for around $1,500(US).

For the more paranoid out there, this devices lets you find those hidden cameras that constantly spy on you. Yours for under $400(US), psychotherapy is extra.

Make your own stereoscopic images with this $120(US) accessory. It splits the image into stereo pairs that can be viewed with software that accompanies the product. Personally, I'd use it to actually generate a 3D rendering, but that's just me.

Speaking of images, recent research has revealed that t-rays (terahertz rays) could be used to detect pencil sketches under paintings without damaging the artwork. They can also be used to detect coloured paints and graphite under plaster, allowing hidden artworks to be discovered.

A biomedical engineer from the University of Southern California suggests that a better approach to a bionic eye is to implant the camera into the lens, then transmitting the information to a chip at the back of the eye which then sends the information to the optic nerve