The Descriptive Camera

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The Descriptive Camera works a lot like a regular camera—point it at subject and press the shutter button to capture the scene. However, instead of producing an image, this prototype outputs a text description of the scene. Modern digital cameras capture gobs of parsable metadata about photos such as the camera's settings, the location of the photo, the date, and time, but they don't output any information about the content of the photo. The Descriptive Camera only outputs the metadata about the content.

http://mattrichardson.com/Descriptive-Camera/


Interesting concept, and worth watching this developing technology.

 

[keytarjunkie]

http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118712
http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118772

Seems we have already dissected this one.

 

[ruby.monkey]

*Click*
"Oh joy. One more photo of your cat."

*Click*
"Jumping. How frakking original."

*Click*
"Just what the world needs - another slump-shouldered waif sulking in the trees."

*Click*
"Do you really think anyone cares what you wrote on that bloody post-it?"

*Click*
"Over-exposed, desaturated, completely obscured by lens flare. Must be art."

*Click*
"Why did you point me down there? WHY?!"

It's technology with a future, I tell you.