Create instant documents from a camera phone

SAN DIEGO--One of the cooler technologies to be showcased at DemoFall here Tuesday afternoon was Qipit, from France's Realeyes 3D.

The idea behind Qipit is that it allows nearly anyone with a camera phone to take photos of signs, posters, fliers and other pieces of written information and then instantly send copies of those images to anyone.

One example of Qipit's utility Realeyes showed onstage was taking a photo of a whiteboard in a college classroom. Once the picture is taken, it could be sent to a sick friend who needed notes from class. It could then be printed, and as shown onstage, the quality is much better than expected.

Another example shown involved seeing a flier advertising a concert, with free admission for anyone with a copy of the flier.

Thus, someone using Qipit could snap a picture of the flier, and then send it to large group of friends, allowing each of them to get into the concert as if they had a real copy of the flier.

And again, Realeyes demonstrated that its technology enables the creation of documents that are far better-looking than a simple camera phone photograph might be expected to be.

This isn't earth-shattering technology, but it could well help people make use of information they find out in public in ways that have never been possible before.