The camera is just one tool in our toolbox, and it requires creative policing strategies.

NPR: Public Surveillance: Security vs. Privacy, Part 2

The GF6 is not just a high quality camera but an advanced photographic tool enhancing the shooting experience with a wide variety of options.

ENGADGET: Panasonic Lumix GF6 announced for the US, shipping in June for $600

Brushing the surface of rocks with Curiosity's dust removal tool first enables the arm-held hand lens camera and X-ray spectrometer, in particular, to see features that might otherwise be obstructed.

BBC: Curiosity Mars rover deploys its rock brush

Perhaps the most powerful tool at the disposal of frustrated passengers is a video camera.

NPR: Attention, Airlines: This Is Your Passenger Speaking

Using a camera attached to a computer, smartphone or tablet, the tool can detect your pulse in just five seconds.

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The selection seems at once profligate and restrictive, the unfamiliar pieces, many of them deservedly obscure, failing to alter the hierarchy other curators have established of leading Conceptual artists, and the absence of video omitting the sharpest new tool artists in the 1960s and '70s used to upset standards of camera-made perception.

WSJ: Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 | Snapshot of a Movement | By Richard B. Woodward

The GALAXY Camera also features 'Smart Content Manager', an innovative on-device organization tool which intelligently creates folders, tags faces, and even suggests which pictures to delete when they don't come out as desired.

ENGADGET: Samsung announces EK-GC100 Galaxy Camera with Android Jelly Bean, massive 4.8-inch display, 21x zoom, WiFi and 4G connectivity (hands-on)

We rarely praise compact camera software here, but we'd be remiss not to note the saturation adjustment tool on this touchscreen shooter.

ENGADGET: Nikon Coolpix S1100pj and S5100 hands-on Hands-on