http://www.bythom.com/design2010.htm
Very thought-provoking essay. Lots of money quotes. For example,
Well, you have to think about how cameras fit into the world around them. To date, cameras have been designed for linear processes: you take a picture and move that picture to the "post processing world" where the camera is not involved any more:
But anyone who's used the camera on the iPhone intuitively understands that this isn't the optimal way to look at "imaging." A modern camera should live at the center of your imaging world, more like this (this is the highly simplified version of outputs from the camera of the future ;~):
When you start thinking about the camera that way you quickly start thinking of it differently than just an "image acquisition device." For the time being, I'll leave it to you to figure out how such a camera departs from our current designs, but the answer, once found, is obvious and compelling.
When you start thinking about the camera that way you quickly start thinking of it differently than just an "image acquisition device." For the time being, I'll leave it to you to figure out how such a camera departs from our current designs, but the answer, once found, is obvious and compelling.
And,
One of the items that is currently being explored commercially is using the accelerometer in a device to correct motion after the fact. No, I don't mean VR, which is a real-time correction system: I mean keeping a high-frequency time record of the device's motion with notation of where image acquisition begins and ends, then doing some very high level math to try to remove motion out of the recorded pixels. This, too, derives from spy tech: those satellites aren't always stationary to the object they're photographing.
Good stuff.
