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Am I? Would the point somehow be served if you took a self-portrait and the response back was "haha ur so ugly"...? (I should add that I know that Amazon offer

by drostie 15y ago

Am I? Would the point somehow be served if you took a self-portrait and the response back was "haha ur so ugly"...? (I should add that I know that Amazon offers a review process, but I am not sure how it integrates with the above camera, and I am thus assuming that the camera automatically has to accept a description as correct before printing it out. This might not be the case; and I don't know.)

huskyr 15y ago
You are. This isn't ment to be a completely realistic project ready to be shipped, it's a glimpse of the future, or maybe an art project. I think it's wonderful to see out-of-the-box stuff like this appearing on Hacker News.
- drostie 15y ago
  My apologies; I suck at communicating. I think I agree. This camera is cute but this particular implementation has flaws -- that's what I said before and what I hoped would be my take-home message, and I guess I didn't highlight that enough. I certainly didn't intend, "oh, fix this before it goes into production!" or anything like that.
- Volscio 15y ago
  Yep, Matt Richardson (my classmate at NYU/ITP, but I wasn't in the course he made this for) makes some pretty cool stuff: http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ He made a project for physical computing class that took hashtagged tweets and displayed them via laser onto phosphorescent vinyl, which caused them to fade away over time. He's also a writer for Make: http://blog.makezine.com/author/makemattr/ http://blog.makezine.com/author/makemattr/ I think the key is that he's one of those people who are experimenting with mashing up not only different technologies but also different generations of technologies. I guess one could call this stuff "parlor tricks" as one other person said but I agree that it's totally within the spirit of hackernews.
JohnLBevan 15y ago
That raises another good point - privacy. I take a pic of my girlfriend on the beach, and some random guy on the Turk gets a copy to distribute / use as they like. This means building this functionality into a standard camera would need an option to turn off the "auto-annotate" feature selectively if using the human method. My example's obviously quite tame, but there are a plethora of more serious ones (including people who'd want to use the service to keep electronic copies of legal documents and have the annotation feature provide a quick cataloguing system).

by drostie 15y ago

huskyr 15y ago

You are. This isn't ment to be a completely realistic project ready to be shipped, it's a glimpse of the future, or maybe an art project. I think it's wonderful to see out-of-the-box stuff like this appearing on Hacker News.

drostie 15y ago
My apologies; I suck at communicating. I think I agree. This camera is cute but this particular implementation has flaws -- that's what I said before and what I hoped would be my take-home message, and I guess I didn't highlight that enough. I certainly didn't intend, "oh, fix this before it goes into production!" or anything like that.
Volscio 15y ago
Yep, Matt Richardson (my classmate at NYU/ITP, but I wasn't in the course he made this for) makes some pretty cool stuff: http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ http://mattrichardson.com/tech/ He made a project for physical computing class that took hashtagged tweets and displayed them via laser onto phosphorescent vinyl, which caused them to fade away over time. He's also a writer for Make: http://blog.makezine.com/author/makemattr/ http://blog.makezine.com/author/makemattr/ I think the key is that he's one of those people who are experimenting with mashing up not only different technologies but also different generations of technologies. I guess one could call this stuff "parlor tricks" as one other person said but I agree that it's totally within the spirit of hackernews.

JohnLBevan 15y ago

That raises another good point - privacy. I take a pic of my girlfriend on the beach, and some random guy on the Turk gets a copy to distribute / use as they like. This means building this functionality into a standard camera would need an option to turn off the "auto-annotate" feature selectively if using the human method. My example's obviously quite tame, but there are a plethora of more serious ones (including people who'd want to use the service to keep electronic copies of legal documents and have the annotation feature provide a quick cataloguing system).