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

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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