YouTube’s growth has been staggering over the last couple of years. Much of it thanks to the average Joe more than happy to upload the latest family video and YouTube partners who provide the website with regular programming including YouTube celebrities Shay Carl, or Shane Dawson. One statistic YouTube has been tracking to measure its growth is the number of hours of video uploaded every minute. In May 2009, the video website blew...

There are plenty of amazing time lapse videos. This is one. But when you see it paired with Hans Zimmer’s “Dream is collapsing”—from Inception’s soundtrack. Play the HD full screen. Use headphones. The time lapse segments were taken by Mike Flores and edited to match the rhythm of Zimmer’s gloriously unnerving piece. Flores’ images are beautiful, but when combined with Zimmer’s music, on a big...

The problem with YouTube is that you can only share stuff you happened to be recording. The Looxcie, a $200 video camera that you wear on your ear, proposes a simple solution: record everything, all the time. Here’s the idea: You wear the Looxcie on your ear and it records everything you see, roughly as you see it. The camera can hold up to four hours of video (in crummy 480×320 at 15fps); when it runs out of space, it starts...

Since YouTube’s launch, the longest video you could upload was 10 minutes. No longer! Boing Boing reports that in the near future, that limit will rise to 15 minutes. Pro online video companies can already break the 10 minute limit, but this will open the door to anybody and everybody to upload longer videos. It’s good news for people breaking up longer content into multiple parts as well as people just creating longer...

Budding 3D home movie aficionados take note: An “affordable” consumer 3D camcorder, the HDC-SDT750, has leaked out ahead of a purported “official” reveal on July 28. The one caveat is this isn’t exactly a “new” camcorder at all: Nay, it’s actually an older 3MOS model with a “3D coversion lens” attached to the front. Nevertheless, this up-scaled 3D camcorder will sport 1080p...