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Nikon Releases WiFi Digital Camera

Posted by Zonk on from the click-upload dept.

LegendOfLink writes "Nikon just revealed the world's first WiFi-enabled camera! It runs 802.11b/g and allows users to send files over a network. From the blurb: "Wireless shooting automatically transfers each picture to a selected computer as soon as it is shot. Pictures can then be viewed with Nikon's powerful yet fun-to-use and easy PictureProject software. And wireless printing delivers the convenience of cable-free direct printing to PictBridge-compatible printers. All these functions are easy to implement, too. Just set them up with the Wizard utility to enjoy easy wireless capabilities that add outstanding flexibility to the digital photography experience. "

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  1. Straight from the Camera to 0dayporn.com! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Anything that makes porn easier to make is alright in my book.

  2. Um... by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    This sounds more like an advertisement than anything actually useful... generally, if it includes the words 'powerful' 'fun-to-use' and 'easy' it's an advertisement. Might also be in an ad for a hooker >.>

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  3. Forget the download hacks... by jarich · · Score: 4, Funny
    What happens when someone figures out to upload pictures to it?

    Honest honey! I don't know where ~those~ pictures came from!!! Honey?? Let me back in the house....

    ;)

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    1. Re:Forget the download hacks... by ScrewMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, my digital camera just maps in as a R/W USB drive. I took pictures at my company picnic a couple years ago, edited them all in Photoshop to give some of my coworkers glowing red/orange Terminator-style eyes, and then copied them back to the camera. When I showed off the pictures on the built-in display, I feigned ignorance (of course) and let everyone try to figure out how it could have happened. Some of the explanations were pretty funny ... the Sun coming in at a funny angle, a problem with the compression algorithm in the camera, gee, maybe so-and-so really is some kind of creature. Finally I owned up to it and explained that my camera was the new model with an on-board demon detector mode. Got a few laughs.

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  4. Marketing by jo_ham · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will they market it like those Centrino laptops that magically allow you to share your photos and do full screen, perfect quality video messaging over the internet while you're in the middle of nowhere with nary a cellphone tower, wireless access point or sign of civilization to be seen anywhere?

  5. But the real question is by hakr89 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does it run Linux?

    1. Re:But the real question is by b3x · · Score: 1, Funny

      better yet: Could you imagine what we could do with a beowulf cluster of these? slo motion hi res pics of hot grits being poured down a petrified natalie portman's pants as she buys another commercial .. errr submits another story to /.

  6. It plays Doom? by Wilson_6500 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine it: four guys sitting in a room, playing deathmatch on their cameras. Screw PSP: cameras are the new gaming rigs!

  7. It: plays: Doom: by Wilson_6500 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, I just realized that there are _way_ too many colons in that post. It's a veritable colorama, a procto-party if you will.

  8. oh man by dioscaido · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does this mean i'll have to install an anti-virus on my camera, too?