In addition to a Carl Zeiss 5X zoom lens, 3.5" wide/touchscreen LCD, Sony's Cybershot T200 features a smile sensor that will automagically snag shots when your family and friends are pretending to enjoy your company. In this demonstration, the potential gimmick seems to actually work. Though you'll notice that the sensors have a tough time detecting profiles.
Sony's T200 Cybershot Photographs Smiles Automatically
5:00 PM on Sun Sep 2 2007
By Mark Wilson
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they should make a function where it takes a picture right before the person says the 'f' word.
Instead of focusing on the smiles, they should have worked on the "lazy eyes" picture problem when someone snaps a picture when you are blinking...
I look like a junkie on at least 2 ids..
I have to say, his picture looked great.
Nice feature too...
Remember that camera from Back to the Future 2? Yea, we're there guys.
So, if someone was frowning and you flipped the camera upside down, would it still take the picture, or be smart enough not to? Would it realize that the bottom of the face was now the top?
I'm getting one of these cameras just to test this theory, and just because I think it would be hilarious to walk around with and hold down in the middle of a crowded area to snap people's pictures with.
^ People who were smiling, btw... Just wanted to clear that up.
That's awesome! I have a cousin who we just couldn't convince to smile for pictures, you had to catch her off guard...
Microsofties will never be able to have photographs of themselves!
How sad.
What if you go to an EMO party? It would probably just explode around all that depression...
I'm holding out for the "Titty Detection Mode" firmware update.
audition to be a commenter? you've got to be kidding. okay fine. i'll do it.
@shirorx: we're getting there. let's see: this camera, wild gunman game on wii's virtual console... personally i'm still waiting for the nike automatic-laces shoes and the hoverboard. not so much the weird looking pepsis from café 80s. ;)
@SomeoneUKno: I'd guess that upsidedown faces would either cause the facial recognition feature to go all kaplooey, or it would automatically flip. After all, facial recognition does rely on eyes, noses and mouths all being approximately where they belong.
Being able to recognize flipped faces would be the prefered solution as you can imagine the frowning parents when they realize that the camera won't work with kids hanging from the monkey bars.
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