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Interesting take. If somebody chiseled a tree stump into a recognizable likeness of your face, would you dismiss it as derivative? Your face has been done befo
by MrLeap 3y ago
Interesting take.
If somebody chiseled a tree stump into a recognizable likeness of your face, would you dismiss it as derivative? Your face has been done before, stumps are EVERYWHERE. Chisels and hammers are _LEGACY TECH_. Sometimes things are interesting because they're creative, not because they're on the bleeding edge of technical complexity.
- echelon 3y agoGame Boy Camera has been used as a webcam before. There's an entire enthusiast community around it, and it was especially popular during the pandemic. I think OP was groaning at the Apple blog self-congratulating the platform. Most of the points were about the iPad, and Apple products were mentioned 71 times (in almost every sentence).
- smrq 3y agoHonestly, if this sold me on any product, it's the Analogue Pocket. None of the iOS stuff seemed particularly inspiring or inspired, but that's one piece of hardware I didn't know I needed in my life.
- Tijdreiziger 3y agoI mean… Viticci is a long-time Apple blogger, so it makes total sense for him to blog about new iPad features. I’d hardly expect him to get excited about Android; there are other blogs for that.
- Almondsetat 3y agoWhat's creative about using UVC like you've done for decades on Linux or *BSDs already?
- dmonitor 3y agoIt's even more fascinating that a 25 year old peripheral for a 30yr old handheld game console can be used in the current year with normal systems without any hacking.
- smoldesu 3y agoThank God Nintendo didn't imagine anything so heinous as adding DRM to a serial bus.
- wtallis 3y ago"Without any hacking" becomes less impressive (and less believable) as the chain of adapters gets longer and more expensive. HDMI capture dongles are cheap commodity items these days, but the Analogue Pocket and its dock are quite specialized and not exactly cheap. It's only possible to use the Game Boy camera with normal systems of today by outsourcing the hacking to the creators of some quite abnormal hardware.