Has a new era of birding photography arrived? FarseerTech, a company formed by former DJI engineers, has Kickstarted what it calls the "world's first robotic extreme zoom camera." The RocXZoom was designed to recognize and track subjects automatically while physically moving the camera to keep them in frame, addressing one of the biggest challenges of shooting at extreme focal lengths. It combines a 50x hybrid zoom, motorized pan-and-tilt movement, and AI-powered subject recognition, thanks to an onboard AI chip. The project has already drawn significant crowdfunding interest.

  Saturday, October 3: Art of Manga at Brooklyn Museum When an art form born of mass circulation is suddenly stripped from its newsprint and pinned to a gallery wall, something almost personal happens. In Art of Manga at the Brooklyn Museum, a dizzying shift from the pocket-sized, disposable book to the physical, hand-drawn original becomes a study in visual momentum.  To look closely at these 600 original drawings—stretching from the foundational, mid-century kineti...