Sony rolls out new digicam, quite literally
March 2nd, 2008 by Giles Smith
Sony usually plugs digicams with titanium shells, exorbitantly high numbers of megapixels and extended battery lives, but that’s not the case with its latest handset. The Japanese electronics giant has designed a prototype camera that doesn’t need batteries and doesn’t even have a display.
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It looks more like a pizza cutter than a cutting-edge snapper: a rubber ringed circle, which sits on the end of a Wii Remote-like handle, just needs to be rolled along a flat surface before sufficient power’s generated to take pictures. Sony claims 15 seconds’ rolling produces enough power to snap one shot.
This process seems simple in practice, because there’s no ISO sensitivity to set, no image mode to choose and no confusing array of buttons. Users simply look through a viewfinder in the centre of the device, line up the shot and then press a button on the stick to grab the image. A lens is hidden within the handle.
This is certainly a camera for people who don’t want to mess around with settings just to get a snap! Look through the hole press a button and get a photo. I am sure I used to have a camera like this when I was a little kid, the only difference was it exposed onto film rather than a CCD…
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