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June 04, 2005
ABSTRACT
Today more people are image blogging. The idea of taking digital
pictures and posting them on the web has been implemented by two popular systems: flickr.com and TextAmerica.com. The former is an elaborate online system allowing images to be uploaded in multiple ways, while the later TextAmerica aims primarily at the mobile user. These services have given rise to new creative ideas for using this developing technology.
AN INTRODUCTION TO PUFFLE: A networked camera. No need for memory cards. It’s not just a modern day point and shoot, but now it’s point, shoot, send and more. This child friendly device enables young children to take photographs that are automatically uploaded on the Internet. The Puffle has also been devised as a child monitoring system that would get to know and be with the child from infancy, keeping a visual record of the child. Then as the child grows, the use of the Puffle changes from a familiar child’s object with monitoring capabilities into a device that the child controls when he starts to record his own world.
CONCLUSION
The Puffle will open up a world for children in a way that lets them not only have a way to look back on their lives, but will also allow them to look at the world they live in. This is meant to be a children’s platform.
But of course the changing concepts of Blogging might not stop with children; there is a whole market for these sorts of device, which might include an adult or two!
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Posted by dimitri at June 4, 2005 04:22 AM