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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
Now we will have even more cameras pointed at peoples genitals.. You know that's what they made it for.
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
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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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.
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