Nicholas Nova has put together a list of curious cameras.
”[I write about this because] itβs both the interest in automatic cameras as tools for User Experience research and as curious devices from the near future. Automatic camera can indeed be used to ask people to reflect on their activities (with some ethical limits) and weird cameras are very interesting devices to imagine new uses.”
Link: A list of intriguing digital cameras (liftlab.com)
“Emosive is a service for mobile devices which allows capturing, storing and sharing of fleeting emotional experiences. Based on the Cognitive Priming theory, as we become more immersed in digital media through our mobile devices, our personal media inventories constantly act as memory aids, “priming” us to better recollect associative, personal (episodic) memories when facing an external stimulus.”
Link: Instant Feeling Messages (we-make-money-not-art.com)
“In her bedroom in Lubbock, Tex., Ms. Adams, 21, tried out a variety of poses coy, friendly, sultry, goofy in the kind of performance young people have engaged in privately for generations before a mirror. But Ms. Adams’s mirror was a Web cam, and her journey of self-expression, documented in five digital self-portraits, was soon visible to the 56 million registered users of MySpace.
”...The era of cheap, lightweight digital cameras in cellphones, in computers, in hip pockets, even on key chains has meant that people who did not consider themselves photography buffs as recently as five years ago are filling ever-larger hard drives with thousands of images from their lives.”
Link: Here I Am Taking My Own Picture (nytimes.com)
Published by Gabriel White.