When it comes to haircuts, there’s no easy way of knowing just how you’d look with a particular style. (Maybe that’s why my look hasn’t changed in roughly two decades.) Fortunately, technology is here to the rescue. It’s called Dreambit, and it can show you exactly what you’d look like with any hairstyle, or even in any historical time period.
Developed by computer vision researchers at the University of Washington, Dreambit builds off the team’s previous work in the fields of facial processing, three-dimensional reconstruction, and age progression.
As complicated as the underlying technology is, the system is designed to work as simply and intuitively as possible. Just upload your favorite selfie, type a keyword into a search box, and voila. You can type a specific hairstyle or type of hair (such as “curly”) or even search for places or time periods. Dreambit analyzes the image and scans its database of over 100,000 source files based on your search terms, then seamlessly blends images together to create a surprisingly realistic rendering of your new ‘do.
While this may sound like fun and games, there is also a much more serious application of the technology. Working alongside age progression software, it could potentially help in missing persons cases.
“It’s hard to recognize someone by just looking at a face, because we as humans are so biased towards hairstyles and hair colors,” said Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, the lead researcher on the project, in a press release. “With missing children, people often dye their hair or change the style so age-progressing just their face isn’t enough. This is a first step in trying to imagine how a missing person’s appearance might change over time.”
Dreambit will show off the technology next week at SIGGRAPH. Interested users can currently sign up for beta access to the platform, which should be coming soon.
Full-frame cameras tend to be chunky beasts, but Sigma wants to prove that big imaging doesn't need a big body. Enter the Sigma FP2, the successor to its tiny, boxy fp mirrorless camera. It keeps the same modular design but packs in some serious upgrades, including a 24.5-megapixel partially stacked full-frame sensor, improved autofocus, 6K video recording, and 70GB of built-in storage. Sigma calls it the world's smallest full-frame camera, and while it might be tiny, the same cannot be said for its price tag.
Sigma FP2 brings faster shooting and 6K video
A phone thermal camera is one of those tools you don’t think you need until the first time it saves you from an expensive problem, and the Thermal Master P3 just got easier to try. For Halloween, it’s discounted with the code THERMCAM10, a 10% cut that works out to $107 off the total. It’s also fresh off a win at the 2026 Tom’s Guide AI Awards for best phone thermal camera, which is the kind of third-party nod that separates a serious tool from the cheap clip-on sensors that flood this category.
We are nearing Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days, which officially run October 6 and 7. But there is no need to wait until the sale begins to start looking. Early offers are already live, and camera gear is one category where I found enough worthwhile discounts to put together a proper creator-focused list.
I’ve deliberately gone wider than interchangeable-lens cameras here. There are pocket and action cameras, a 360 camera, an instant camera, two wireless microphone systems, and a pair of webcams covering very different budgets. Prices were checked on October 2, and as always with Amazon, they can move quickly.