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;)

Comments

hrrm

[Sheeple Police]

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.

Oh great...

[Monkeyman334]

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

weird

[fluxrad]

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

no wires for my browser...

[tewwetruggur]

I always hate it when all those pesky wires get in my way whilst browsing... 'specially that damned barbed wire - just trying to read /. when "BAM!" a big old scratch from a wire stickin' right outta netscape.

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.

Phenomenonally stupid digital convergance

[not_cub]

Ok, so if I'm in my own house, sending files from my camera via wireless ethernet is not much easier than transferring them to a computer via IR, where I can actually do something useful with them.

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