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Sony Presents Bluetooth Digital Camera

Posted by timothy on from the soon-webcams-will-be-mandatory dept.

JeroenH writes: "Sept. 2, 2002, Sony announced the DSC-FX77. It's a 4 megapixel, fixed lens digital camera with a special feature: Bluetooth. When the camera takes a picture, it will be sent directly through the Bluetooth link to a nearby computer, giving you nearly unlimited space for your photos (well, at least as much as fits on your hard disk). At this stage the camera can only send photos to a computer, but in the future it should be possible to control the camera remotely. Will the wardriving of the future include scooping up pictures? Time will tell..."

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  1. Ho there cowboy by cheezycrust · · Score: 2, Informative
    the article goes on further to state that you have to wait 6.5 seconds for a THUMBNAIL!?

    Actually, the article says:

    This feature creates a "real-time digital camera" with a thumbnail picture transmitted from the camera to the remote device at a data rate of 6.5 frames per second.

    This gives a transfer time of 0.15 seconds.

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  2. Re:Bluetooth Vaios Next? by BJH · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some Vaios in Japan have had Bluetooth for a year now.

  3. Already doing this... by notenoughnamespace · · Score: 2, Informative

    My Nokia 7650 has Bluetooth and a camera and will happily send pictures to my PC or a Pocket PC or even a Palm Pilot. Mostly I use it to send pictures to my HP printer, which also has Bluetooth, it took no setting up or drivers, just unpacked the phone, took a photo, pressed "send" and out it comes.

    Bluetooth is a truely wonderful thing.

    Lots Of Love

    Bill Ray