But 360 degree photography is actually fairly neat, and a good way to capture a whole event with one click. Or just make something really weird-looking. And now, there’s a gadget that will do precisely that.

It’s called a Tomaggo, and the camera specs are actually fairly good: it’s got a 14 megapixel sensor, although no word on the pixel size, and a whole bunch of other goodies like WiFi, Bluetooth, and a flip-down tripod that automatically triggers a ten second timer.

As for what you’d actually use this for, we’ve got a few suggestions:

- Hide it in a table in the middle of a room, and set it to take a picture every ten seconds. Then throw a party. Instant blackmail.

- Use it to take family photos once, and you’ll never be asked to do it again.

- Stitch a bunch of them together in Photoshop and pretend you’re a struggling artist at the local gallery.

- Finally figure out what people are doing behind your back.

Tamaggo Snaps One-Click 360 Degree Photos [Gizmodo]

Corel, yep, the people who made that word processing software your mom used to make banners in the ’80s, have decided to jump into this market, and the results are pretty interesting.

Why should you care, if you’ve just got a cheap point-and-shoot? Because a good post software can make a photo you shoot, no matter how terrible, much better. Maybe not art, but at least you don’t look overexposed and your girlfriend doesn’t fade into the background.

Also, if you take a lot of photos, something like AfterShot, Lightroom, or Apeture offers what they call “library management”, which means “all of your photos in one place instead of stuffed into your ‘Photos’ folder with titles like IMAG12189128927887127.jpg.tiff.”

OK, so what does AfterShot offer? A full RAW workflow; metadata editing (i.e. stuff like date and time attached to the photo); non-destructive editing, so you can play with settings and not worry about wrecking your picture; and most importantly, it’s designed for multi-core and multi-CPU devices, meaning you won’t have a photo editor that slows down everything.

How much for this? $99, and even better, it’s for Mac, Windows, and Linux, so no matter what you use and what you shoot, you now have no excuse.

Corel Launches AfterShot Pro [TechCrunch]

It’s not pretty for the fish, of course, but I enjoy it, and typically prefer to take some pictures when I’m under the sea.

However, doing so almost always requires dropping a ton of cash on a really expensive product — the housing for said camera, mainly —  that I won’t use nearly as often as the price tag might suggest.

Fortunately, PhotoJoJo is here to save the day, with their $35 disposable underwater camera.

Described as “the dog of artsy cams” (unlike the expensive ones, aka “the cats,” it doesn’t freak the freak out when you get water on it), the Underwater Digi Cam is waterproof to 100 feet and shoots both video and stills.

There’s nothing unusual about the camera — it holds 16MB of internal memory with a micro SD slot that can tack on an extra 2GB of space, it has a 10-second self timer, 4x digital zoom, runs on AAA batteries, a USB cable, etc., etc., —  except that it’s a perfect “beach cam,” as it’s disposable and, most importantly, inexpensive.

Huh. If only it were summertime.

Underwater Digi Camera — [JoJo]

I like this image mostly because I really relate to that one hand going straight for the big boobs. It’s like, hey, yeah I’m a disembodied hand coming from the floor, but whatever man, I need to get some action too. What, because I’m a little “different” you’re incapable of seeing that I’m a man? A man with needs? Well f you, Dressy. Because I will yank you down to some sort of abyss. Or your basement, whatever. With gusto.

Editor’s Note: Changed this to a link instead of a posted image because, I dunno, it’s a little too gross/kid-fy to me: LINK

Uh…are we doing surrealist photography or are we in Pete Townshend’s computer? I guess those things don’t have to be mutually exclusive, but still…a bit perturbing and kiddie-pornish, I say. But whatever, art is art, so..that’s cool.

View the photographer’s Web site here.