What IS the point of it? It seems like a parlor trick to me, especially with the "send it to my friend and have him describe it" option. I don't see how this g

What IS the point of it? It seems like a parlor trick to me, especially with the "send it to my friend and have him describe it" option. I don't see how this gadget is particularly useful in any way, any more than the first "automated chess device" with a midget inside moving chess pieces around was actually revolutionary. The comments on how it would be useful for the blind (with braille or speech synthesis) is as close as I've seen to a reasonable justification for it. Even then it's a stretch. Beyond that, basing it on Mechanical Turk means every "photo" costs money, and frankly doesn't provide much value. If you want to caption your photos it would be much better to do it AFTER you've pruned the ones you don't care about, so you're not paying for descriptions of 100 throwaway photos for every keeper. In which case the fact that the camera itself is hooked up to Mechanical Turk is just a gimmick, since it would be easier to run a script on your desktop or on a server.