Flash

​When using a flash, photographers will quite often tilt its head up, bouncing the light off the ceiling for a softer effect. Figuring out the best angle at which to bounce it, however, can sometimes be tricky. That's why Canon has developed the auto-tilting Speedlite 470EX-AI flash.

The FlashQ Q20 is a camera flash unit which promises to be as useful off-camera as it is when it's mounted to a hot-shoe. The flash unit can be used wirelessly by detaching the main body from its radio transmitter hot shoe adapter.

Last September, we first heard about Nova – a wireless external flash designed for use with the iPhone. At the time, its creators were raising production funds on Kickstarter. As of today, however, it's available for purchase.

The Rogue Safari Pop-Up Flash Booster adds a high-powered flash to mid-range DSLRs, greatly increasing the range of the flash on cameras that don't have a hot shoe for quick flash swaps.

Although smartphone cameras are getting better and better, the one place many of them still lack is the flash. Nova is designed to fix that. It's a portable flash that wirelessly syncs with an iPhone, and it's small enough to carry in a wallet.

The iblazr team out of the Ukraine has developed a fully synchronized LED flash module that plugs into the audio jack of a phone or tablet. It's been designed to eliminate the white- or red-eye effect, and packs its own battery so it won't leech from the host device.

The world's shortest laser pulse, measuring only 67 attoseconds in duration, has been generated at the University of Central Florida.

In an effort to start the publicity drive for Borderlands 2, Gearbox Software has released an old-skool 16-bit version of the original Borderlands that can be played in Web browsers.

Adobe's new Flash Media Server 4.5 allows Flash video content to be viewed directly within Safari on iOS devices.

Following on from last year's release of its Flash-compatible browser for iOS devices, Skyfire has released a standalone Flash player called VideoQ.

Looks like the legion of iPhone users are pretty keen to get Flash video on their device with the news that the Skyfire 2.0 mobile web browser for iPhone that is capable of playing Flash videos has effectively “sold out.”

Apple has announced that it has relaxed restrictions on its iOS developer license, opening the doors to native Flash and AdMob applications – as long as the resulting apps do not download any code.