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Digital Camera With Wireless Browser
pfignaux writes: "From Steve Fox's CNET
Insider, 'The
world's first Internet-ready digital camera, a 3.34-megapixel model with
a built-in Web browser ... You can also use the camera to send and receive images,
movies, text, and voice memos via e-mail, and you can fax images directly from
the camera as soon as you've taken them.' I seem to remember something
like this in the movie, Until the End of the World, where Solveig
Dommartin sends Sam Neil a video snapshot." Well, this probably must be qualified as the first (any counterarguments?) digital still camera with a built-in browser, but the Sony Vaio GT1 looks pretty Internet ready to me;)
From the specifications page:
"Fax text images..." Is that like listen to text sound? "Oh my, your voice sounds simply operatic when I listen with it through ASCII"
"User-friendly 3.5 inch touch-screen LCD" - since when has anything that small been user friendly?
"Stylus pen inputting" - mandatory election comment: Look out Palm Beachers, this camera is not for you.
"Text mode" - someone want to explain to me why a camera would have text mode? The only possible use I can see would be having it "Matrix-fied" [sic], but I doubt that is what they mean.
Oh well, nothing like reading English translations from Japanese pages, if I do so myself.
Information is the catalyst for revolution
When will people learn that the internet is useless on a small screen? What good is having a web browser on your digital camera. It may be good it if could view all sites but for that to be possible it would have to really shrink them down. So much so that they could not be viewable. I guess some sites make versions of there site for these special devices. But is this really worth while? Why do people really need to have internet access on a cellphone or on a digital camera? Like your digital camera be just that a camera. You can use your computer to browser the web the way it was meant to be. I think we should boycott lame stuff like this. Just people trying to get us to pay more money to have the internet on like a 2 inch by 2 inch screen. I hope people are not stupid enough to think that this is a good idea. Don't buy this garbage use a computer. I can just imagine what slashdot would look like on a digital camera screen.
>neotope
If you get Wired and hang on to back issues, go back 2 or 3 months. They had a whole article on some new software technique this guy was going to market using cell phones to distribute digital pictures. It was a good read...that is, it was a good read instead of paying attention in my mind-numbing communications class.
That doesn't sound like the guy though. It sure would suck if he did that interview only to have someone else read it and beat him to market!
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Now we will have even more cameras pointed at peoples genitals.. You know that's what they made it for.
Perhaps I am not smoking enough dope, but that THING (Vaio Gt1) looks like crap to me. Much more sexy imho is the Sony PictureBook followup, the one with the inbuild camera and the Transmeta chip. it's only about 3,800 Aussie dollars which is about half that in US dollars. Not to mention it's portability - PURE Sex .. =)
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A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
seems that the deal of the day is to come up with two different concepts and merge them for no aparent reason.
Introducting the Sony Shoe/Lightbulb
wireless access isn't even fast enough to make the cost justifiable for this type of thing.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
I love technology. First, cellphones get wireless web, and now digital cameras. I can just imagine what this will do for the porn industry, as well as everyday use. Next, I'd like to see wireless web capabilities in a camcorder. Then, I could be at... oh, say Botcon (the Transformers convention), and update my site on the fly with streaming video.
Beef! Beef! Beef!
and, wow, I'd never have thought of stickin' a web browser in a camera - that's jsut soooo much better than using the browser built into my toster.
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A digicam that uploaded images as you shot them to a remote server would be perfect when confronted with cops and/or other hired goons trying to confiscate the incriminating snaps you just shot of them. Now *THAT* would be useful.
Might take something like 128k Ricochet to upload high-res images in reasonable time, but a 640x480 jpeg at a high compression rate is small enough to send usefully at 19.2k (CDPD) or even 9.6k (GSM) rates.
-Isaac
I am not a lawyer, and this is not legal advice. For Entertainment Purposes Only.
Taco was quick to point out that the Vaio looked pretty sweet, and it damn sure does. However, the fact of the matter is, its hugely too expensive.
With a pricetag of $3899US, the Vaio GT1 as well as other hybrid camera-laptops are WAY out of reach for the average consumer. I could buy a p3 800 laptop and a higher quality digital video camera for the same amount of money.
The sad truth is that there is not yet a market for these hybrids except for video professionals or the ultra rich. As cool as it may be, I don't see hybrid camera/laptops gaining a foothold in the market for a while yet to come.
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Well, all of these devices are all really just computers. Adding things like MP3 players, web browsers, or any other software application is pretty much free (other then memory space, and ROM is always cheap).
The reality is, not putting those things in is more like actively removing them then anything else.
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Remeber way back then when digital watches were so new and wonderful? And they start adding more and more features on it...
Who knows, any day now someone may create an all-in-one watch that is also a video camera, mp3 player, web server, phone, razor (just rub it on your face) and whatever!
Wait, didn't IBM put Linux on a watch?
"My watch has better uptime then your server!"
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Hey Ma, could you buy me some batteries. This way i will able to chat with Jenny in the car with this camera. It sucks that it takes 1 minute per character with that thing. Whoa I am recieving a fax!! Tell dad that by tomorrow will have a beautiful picture of Aunt Rose.
Whats that, the car wont start. Here, put the camera on top of the motor and let it just sit there awhile. Okay now try it.......
The Axis 2120 is a digital still camera running an embedded version of Linux.
It is not designed to be portable, as its power supply and case are aimed at security and permanent webcam use, but you could modify it appropriately.
It's also got motion detection and inbuilt Apache.
If I'm in a friend's house I have to configure my camera to be on his network before I can make anything work. That's assuming he even has a network.
In fact, I am hard pushed to think of a way that this is more useful than having the same web-enabled functionality on my toaster ("to: root@camera Subject: toast is done").
Come on guys, I might want to hook my computer up to my hifi to play mp3s. I might want a computer in my tv to show me schedules. I only need one way to get pictures from my camera to my computer/paper, and this isn't any easier.
not_cub
q='echo "q=$s$q$s;s=$b$s;b=$b$b;$q"';s=\';b=\\;echo "q=$s$q$s;s=$b$s;b=$b$b;$q"
All they need now is a built in wireless modem.
I think this would end up going to end being something that every journalist will want/need. No more worrying about people confisgating your film after you take a picture that someone didn't want you to see. Just take the picture, and have it automatically upload it to a server somewhere.
Of course there's the other side of it. Trying to work security when there's someone out there with something like this.