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August 1, 2011
 

Blind camera

Blindcam

Interesting concept called the Blind Camera. Here's how it works:


When you hit the button, it begins searching the net for a picture, any picture, taken at that exact moment. The picture might show up after a minute or two, or maybe not for hours. Not very useful as far as an entertainment device, but it’s kind of fun to think about: somebody, somewhere, pressed that button at the same time you did. And the only reason you know that, and saw the picture, is because you pressed your button then.

I think my friend Aaron will like this concept for the same reasons I do. It's a novelty for certain, but it's also something the fully captures the amazing connectedness of the world and how we're so easily able to tap into that connectedness. It's like finding your temporal photographic doppleganger out of all the noise of the world. 

Sounds like a machine straight out of a Ray Bradbury story.

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April 20, 2011
 

WVIL concept camera

This is clearly just a concept and I'm struggling to figure out the practical aspects of this other than self and group-portraits, but it's a neat video featuring technology that's here today. WVIL stands for Wireless Viewfinder Interchangeable Lens. If you ask me though the only product here is the lens with a Bluetooth connection. The rest of the "camera" is just an iPhone + app.

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January 7, 2011
 

A digital park bench

Like many others, I've been a long-time fan of The Sartorialist. I didn't know much about the man behind the camera, but this video from Intel changed that. I love this concept of the Internet as a digital park bench.
 
Because the Internet is the world shrinking. Are we all becoming too homogenized? Milan hasn't changed. Paris hasn't changed, New York hasn't changed. So I don't think it's really homogenized anything, but I do think it's given us what I like to call a digital park bench. So many people you meet say 'Oh I love to just go people watch, to just go sit in the park and watch people. And before, you were limited to the people you could see right there in front you, at your park. Now, you can go on the internet and really the whole world is open to you now.

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