That could all change, however, now ION has muscled into the scene with its Air Pro HD sports camera.
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Samsung's onslaught of smart features -- the S-branding, Air Gestures, special camera modes and the like -- are all absent here, leaving the user with an experience completely untouched by the manufacturer.
And while Siskel and Ebert may have sparred on air, they were close off camera.
Will runs around in slow motion, exactly like the Six-Million-Dollar Man, and flies through the air as if launched by little off-camera trampolines.
The distraction forced the pilot to abandon the search but the air crew found the man by using a thermal image camera.
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In the thin air, the kids promptly fell asleep and Marji fumbled with her movie camera.
He changes camera speeds, zips through sequences, sends things flying through the air.
It wasn't too bad - hands in the air, a couple of finger clicks, and a big wave to the camera.
She had a wary, melancholic air and was curled up in a chair, as though recoiling from the camera that she knew was embedded in the wall behind her husband.
You may remember iON stepping out onto the action camera market back in spring, when we went hands on with the OG Air Pro.
The Android release will be part of AIR 2.5 and grant would-be developers access to your smartphone's camera, microphone, accelerometer and GPS as well as providing hardware GPU acceleration and multitouch input, which could make for some exciting PopCap games completely serious and not at all game related utilities down the road.
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Lee mimicked a camera with his hands, and the ex-champ unleashed a flurry of innocent air punches.
Unlike those earlier tools, Nokia City Lens lets you freeze the view, so that you can put the camera down to choose your options without having to awkwardly hold your device in the air to continue seeing the overlaid information.
When he tapped his volunteers on their chests at the same time as he tapped the air at chest-height below the cameras, they reported feeling that the core of their identity inhabited the camera's position.
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