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Combined Printer/Burner

People without computers can now take advantage of digital cameras.
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This could easily exist using available technology, it's just a question of combining it:

Take a printer that can both print digital photographs, and cds. Integrate a cd/dvd burner. Integrate a hard drive to buffer a photo collection. Integrate electronics to connect to a television for control, and photo viewing. Integrate software that helps tag, organise and track photo libraries across many discs. Integrate a simple server that presents the photos as web galleries (which would actually be the navigable front end to the device, as controlled from the telly).

This is a device for people that don't want to own a computer, but would like to participate in digital photography without suffering the disadvantage of not being able to archive and organise their shots in the digital domain.

The computer-less digital camera owner would have one box that they connect the camera to, and offload all their shots onto. The unit would allow printing of shots (for it is a printer), and when a library becomes a certain size, archiving of shots onto CD or DVD blank media. It would also allow selection of arbitrary single/grouped photos to be burned to CD to distribute to friends, take down the shops to be printed, etc. It would also allow slideshows to be viewed on telly.

Ian Tindale, Nov 19 2005

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       funnily enough I just spent half an hour with a perfect stranger looking at cameras for his girlfriend. they didn't have a computer and he couldn't make his mind up whether to go for the chicken or the egg.
po, Nov 19 2005
  

       My, [po], you really do live, don't you?
moomintroll, Nov 19 2005
  

       I most certainly do. Merton Park is where it all goes on... ;)
po, Nov 19 2005
  

       Merton Park, you say?   

       My God, I live there too!
dbmag9, Jan 31 2008
  


 

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