This Is the $118,000 Camera Used to Film Shark Week’s Slow-Motion Videos

The best part about Discovery Channel’s Shark Week is hands-down the ultra-detailed, split-second slow-mos of great whites shooting out of the water like scud missiles, snatching unsuspecting seal pups between jagged rows of dagger-like teeth. It’s gruesome, terrifying and, for fairly obvious reasons, I can’t stop watching.

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Ultimate Air Jaws: The Amazing New Technology Of Shark Week

In 2000, producer Jeff Kurr traveled to South Africa hoping to be the first to capture the incredible hunting techniques of the great white sharks that inhabit the coast. To feed on seals, the sharks have the self-taught ability to breach the water’s surface. Going airborne, the 2000-pound hunters grab their prey while lifting their [...]

Techland Roundup: The Daily Dose

Today on Techland: Peter brought us the latest on the Apple Tablet unveil, Steve chatted up the talented Alex Proyas and Matt will probably be in the dog house for a few nights…