If you read the text of the page that was in another comment, you'll see that he removed a daughter card that contained the flash memory for the device. I'm guessing that he made a replacement daughter card and plopped it down on the board. I've opened similar cameras to find that they often make use of vertical jumper connections to save space and layer the pcb boards. It's also a way of keeping the boards modular so they can swap in higher capacity daughter boards, etc.
The lighting of the picture would also be very hard to photoshop, suggesting that this is indeed real.
I was only able to get a the picture of the hack. It looks promising so I'm heading to Walgreens to pick one up for use as a digital camera back in my 35mm SLR.
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but try doing a whois lookup on some of the domains listed on the above linked webpage. For example, the Pan-American Cornonors page (CORONERSWEB.ORG) belongs to Daniella Ghaepetto. The "hate" site (UNITE-AND-RESIST.ORG) belongs to Carla Ghaepetto. Both of these domains have a strange 12 diget entry field, their technical contacts are the same, and their listed name servers are the same.
Personally, I think this is rather silly and a waste of hype. Planting websites to make a film more mysterious is just lame. Just my $.02
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If you read the text of the page that was in another comment, you'll see that he removed a daughter card that contained the flash memory for the device. I'm guessing that he made a replacement daughter card and plopped it down on the board. I've opened similar cameras to find that they often make use of vertical jumper connections to save space and layer the pcb boards. It's also a way of keeping the boards modular so they can swap in higher capacity daughter boards, etc.
The lighting of the picture would also be very hard to photoshop, suggesting that this is indeed real.
I was only able to get a the picture of the hack. It looks promising so I'm heading to Walgreens to pick one up for use as a digital camera back in my 35mm SLR.
http://ice.syne.net:88/sd/sm_hack.jpg
I don't mean to spoil the fun, but I developed a device much like this one many years ago using holograms and lasers. Poof goes the patent :)
-Jason
I don't know if anyone else has noticed, but try doing a whois lookup on some of the domains listed on the above linked webpage. For example, the Pan-American Cornonors page (CORONERSWEB.ORG) belongs to Daniella Ghaepetto. The "hate" site (UNITE-AND-RESIST.ORG) belongs to Carla Ghaepetto. Both of these domains have a strange 12 diget entry field, their technical contacts are the same, and their listed name servers are the same.
Personally, I think this is rather silly and a waste of hype. Planting websites to make a film more mysterious is just lame. Just my $.02
-Jason