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How the Camera Phone Changed the World

Posted by Zonk on from the peeping-phone dept.

theodp writes "Ten years after the amazing Philippe Kahn married a cell phone and a digital camera to capture the birth of daughter Sophie, Slate takes a look at the impact of the camera phone, the gadget that perverts, vigilantes, and celebrity stalkers can all agree on. 'With this kind of device,' Kahn told Wired, 'you're going to see the best and the worst of things.'"

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  1. Some Marriage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    Ten years after the amazing Philippe Kahn married a cell phone and a digital camera

    And people say gay marriage is unnatural!

    And, I didn't know that Kahn is a minister.

    1. Re:Some Marriage! by ddvlad · · Score: 5, Funny
      Well, marrying a cell phone with another cell phone is just silly.

      Yes, but marying a cell phone and two cameras is 3G. What is the world coming too?

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    2. Re:Some Marriage! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      kaaaaaaaaaaahn!!!!!!

      sorry i had it do it

  2. Re:What? by Snarfangel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Camera phones have such poor quality. Why don't you just buy a disposable one for a few bucks and save yourself some pain.

    If only they'd put a crappy phone on a high-quality camera, I'd be set.

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  3. Re:Washed out, grainy, bad contrast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tell us more of these "girls" you speak of.

  4. Re:Camera Phones Suck by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dilbert on banning camera phones

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  5. Re:The best idea ever! by Thunderstruck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Screw megapixels, I can't wait for the first Video/Camera/Handgun/Phone...

    This would be a great combination, in theory. But do you really want to put a gun into a device that you frequently hold against your head? *Oops, wrong button!*

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  6. Re:Tons of phones without cameras... quit complain by EinZweiDrei · · Score: 5, Funny
    (guess what - they sell cell phones that are literally no-frills so that employees can have a cheap company phone)
    And about time, mes sieurs! I'm tired of all those literally-frilled phones getting caught on my coatsleeves right in the middle of a rousing bout of lawn-tennis!

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  7. Re:I have a digital camera. by kfg · · Score: 3, Funny

    i dont need the added weight making my pants fall down.

    Back in the day we solved this problem by buying pants that fit; although I admit it is amusing to watch the chavs trying to play basketball with one hand tied up in the problem of holding their pants up.

    And extra amusing when one of them manages to trip over their own pants.

    KFG