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November 10, 2008 10:29 AM PST

Conceptual hands-on photography

by Leonard Goh
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Mac Funamizu concept photography

Hold your hand up and wink with your left eye to take a shot.

(Credit: Mac Funamizu)

In movies, photographers hold up their hands and form two L shapes to use as a frame and compose their shots. This has almost become a universal sign of photography. But what if technology comes into play, and you can snap a shot at whatever is in the frame?

Japanese designer Mac Funamizu's idea of the future camera is just a pair of sunglasses and your hands. When you wear the shades and create the frame in front of it, Fumanizu said the eyewear will recognize the varying dimensions that the two L frames create and prompt you to take the picture by "shutting your left eye."

This is a really cool concept that takes point-and-shoots to another level. What would make this gadget even more super cool is to allow sunglasses to display useful information about the item you're looking at. But this wishful thinking still belongs firmly in the realms of Minority Report and Terminator.

(Via Crave Asia)

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by RicABlair November 10, 2008 10:47 AM PST
Definitely way cool. I'll bet the MIT Media Lab already has a sunglasses prototype.
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by justdaven November 10, 2008 12:39 PM PST
I hate to be pedantic, but the terminator's display was built into it's eye or brain...

On the other hand: "I'd buy that for a dollar!!!"
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by Ryan_R November 10, 2008 5:34 PM PST
2 problems:

1 - I can only wink with my right eye :)

2 - Every one of your photos would have fingers/thumbs in the corners
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by mistercow.pnoy November 10, 2008 6:53 PM PST
1 - probably eye optional for people that don't have one eye or the other...or people like you
2 - Probably built in cropping, so you kinda have to frame out slightly bigger then what you want


now on to my own comment:
sunglasses my ass, call me back when they make these into contacts, that also have night vision, and auto load them to flickr, and can record video, and and AND...have xray vision....okay, I'll just take the sunglasses
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