Kids building a pinhole camera no longer impressive; Columbia’s Computer Vision Lab raises the bar
Posted in: UncategorizedThe act of loading film into an SLR, or even just changing the lens, makes you more intimate with the object; by popping it open you see all this delicate stuff inside that looks like you shouldn’t spill coffee on it. But nowadays the cameras most of us interact with are just sleek little bricks, and the best interior peek you’ll have is a glimpse of the grim little slot for the SD card, about as revealing as a North Korean military PR spokesperson.
Columbia University’s Computer Vision Labaratory is testing out a product called the BigShot, a digital camera intended to be taken apart and assembled by children, in order to remind them that yeah, someone actually designed and built this thing.
They say kids are getting smarter each generation, and I hope that’s true; after looking at the online assembly instructions, I’m not even sure I could put one of these together. Am digging the concept though.
The BigShot was developed by Shree K. Nayar, Columbia’s Comp-Sci Chair, leading a team of undergrad and grad students.
via gadgetlab
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