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New Uses For LCD Technology

Posted by Zonk on from the see-how-it-looks dept.

HaggiZ writes "A design student from the University of New South Wales has developed a postcard with a built-in camera and LCD display. As the article states, you simply snap the photos and send it to your loved ones and 'they tear open the perforations, fold out a little kick stand on the back and sit it on a bench top. Then it's as simple as pressing a button and it will go through a slide show of images.' I also found these credit cards with build in LCD displays. It sounds like the perfect solution for credit card fraud, with the card generating a One Time Password for each transaction."

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  1. Hmmm... by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Informative
    The palm-sized camera-cum-postcard, housed in a cardboard shell with a two-megapixel lens, a 10-centimetre screen, digital memory and an internal battery, would cost about $25.
    Kudos to the kid for his invention, but FYI, when you have 'cheap' digital cameras, it means they're skimping on the lens.

    Good photographers don't need expensive cameras, they use expensive lenses.

    But since the idea includes a slideshow, I think it would be worth producing. Especially since CCDs, LCDs and RAM are dirt cheap when ordered in production quantites.
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  2. Re:Ooooh... by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article estimates $25, but that's probably Aussie dollars which converts to ~£10 or ~US$18.