Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Son of SAN - Storage Networking Technologies -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe Wagner who wrote (4751)	5/17/2004 12:32:03 PM
From: Joe Wagner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4808

Camera phones get sexy; do users care? By Rick Merritt EE Times May 12, 2004 (10:06 AM EDT) MAUI, Hawaii — Component and handset makers are gearing up to ship mass volumes of camera phones worldwide in hopes of sparking new markets in mobile imaging. They say they can resolve looming design hurdles for 2-megapixel and higher-resolution images as well as real-time video. eetimes.com I still think they need to start putting metadata with each picture. To start with, each picture should have a date and time. Then later GPS and temperature data. Then they should have voice converted to data with each picture to identify it. Sorta like on Star Trek when Kirk would hit the button and say, "Captain's Log, Star Date." Then they should be linked with your calendar website. So every picture you take could be stored on your website someday. Hey, it'll happen someday. Those higher megapixel pictures floating around on the airwaves will mean bigger storage requirements and the higher volumes of pictures means people will need better ways of filing away all those pictures and keeping track of them. Even if you don't send them over the cellphone they can download on your home computer by wireless, and metadata would make it easier to sort them when you fill up a 200GB harddrive.