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New Uses For LCD Technology
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."
It isn't designed to be used by professional photographers or anyone wanting a sharp, distortion-free, low chromatic abberation image. It is designed for taking snapshots and sending them to a friend or family member. It is for fun. But for what it is worth, some very serious photographers use cameras that have incredibly bad lenses. Google for Holga images to see some great examples.
this is old technology combined in one package.
SURPRISE!
All technology is just old technology combined in one package. Sometimes made smaller, or higher quality, etc, but that's all progression of technology is: combining old things in new, smarter ways.
The Internet? Old phone lines and circuitboards and computers combined in a new package.
PDA's? Batteries and processors and LCD's and digitizers.
Every new software rogram that comes out? It's all made of zeroes and ones... old technology.
Anytime something new comes out, you can break it down into its base components and claim it's nothing new.