Sometimes, you just want to snap pictures on your iPhone discreetly. Unfortunately, the camera's shutter sound can give you away. And the annoying part is that there's no setting you can change to ...

If you work with machinery, engines or appliances of any type, then you’ve likely experienced the frustration of hearing a troublesome noise coming from somewhere, but not being able to pinpoint where ...

There’s a new update (4.3) available for Google Camera that brings a small but important feature to the app. You can now finally disable the shutter sound you hear whenever you take an image. You can ...

Whatever your reasons are for wanting to get rid of the camera shutter sound on your iPhone, it's possible to disable it fairly easily. Since the sound has nothing to do with the photo being taken, ...

[Benn Jordan] had an idea. He’d heard of motion amplification technology, where cameras are used to capture tiny vibrations in machinery and then visually amplify it for engineering analysis. This is ...

A few years ago, [Artem] learned about ways to focus sound in an issue of Popular Mechanics. If sound can be focused, he reasoned, it could be focused onto a plane of microphones. Get enough ...

When you click a photo, that familiar ‘click’ sound helps both you and the person posing in front of you confirm that the photo has been taken. But have you ever wondered why cameras make this sound ...

Wildlife film makers can attach a shotgun microphone to a handheld camera while out and about, but might not be able to zero in on the sounds of distant subjects. Dodotronic has launched a ...

When it comes to smartphone etiquette, there's something inherently satisfying about going about your business discreetly. Whether it's choosing a silent ringtone or disabling notification sounds, ...