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Are you looking for a quick, budget-friendly DIY to keep your little one engaged for hours? This easy DIY toy camera will tick all your boxes. You can make this cute toy camera for your kid’s pretend ...

The Camp Snap is a simple fixed-focus digital camera with only an optical viewfinder and a shot counter, which has become a surprise hit among photography enthusiasts for its similarity to a ...

One of Snapchat’s more clever ideas was not its disappearing messages, but that the smartphone camera should be a toy. Along those same lines, but on a lesser scale, a new app called OOO is meant to ...

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Airou Toy Digital Camera, manufactured in China for Capcom (all images courtesy Prestel) The colorful history of toy cameras, those affordable film cameras in plastic boxes, is being celebrated in a ...

In our ceaseless quest to bring you the best from the cheaper end of the global electronics markets, there are sometimes gadgets that we keep an eye on for a while because when they appear they’re ...

This tiny Wi-Fi camera is big on value, offering most of the features of its bigger competitors at a fraction of the price. While its motion detection is only hit-or-miss, it’s a solid home monitoring ...

The best way to describe Fujifilm's Instax Mini 9 camera is one word: Delightful. Technology aside, the camera is just plain adorable. When I opened the box for the first time, I literally squealed ...