The Descriptive Camera Takes Descriptions, Not Photographs
Capital of Nasty, an Electronic Magazine - ISSN 1482-0471
Thursday, April 26, 2012 at 12:00 (6707/22)
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Photography
The Descriptive Camera is the work of Matt Richardson. Unlike a regular camera, this one takes a photo, sends the output to a Mechanical Turk and six minutes later a description of the image is printed out on thermal paper.
After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results. A yellow LED indicates that the results are still "developing" in a nod to film-based photo technology. With a HIT price of $1.25, results are returned typically within 6 minutes and sometimes as fast as 3 minutes. The thermal printer outputs the resulting text in the style of a polaroid print.
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