Product: Cell Phone: Feature
Slightly Downish-foreward Facing Phone Camera   (+3, -1)  [vote for, against]
For screen-walkers

This smartphone comes with an angled camera and live video output that does navigational eye-level duty for screen-walker zombies so they no longer walk into eachother, or oncoming traffic. Why we should mercy them with an enabling technology is another question for a more boring site.
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 28 2019

3rd Phone Camera Forward-Facing_20Cell-Phone_20Camera
[bs0u0155, Aug 28 2019]

Head_20Down_20Display [2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 29 2019]

Email 'n Walk Lets You Multitask Without Getting Hit By a Car https://lifehacker....ting-hit-by-5256519
Mentioned in my anno; via [Jinbish] [notexactly, Aug 29 2019]

// they no longer walk into ... oncoming traffic. //

Anti-Darwinian [-]
-- 8th of 7, Aug 28 2019


Oi! my version <link> got fishboned for being anti-Darwinian! Has the collective moved to a anti selection stance?
-- bs0u0155, Aug 28 2019


Just a typo ... now fixed. We favour the elimination of the unfit, the inattentive, the slow, and the generally unaware.
-- 8th of 7, Aug 28 2019


[Lurch]'s take on this from 07 did pretty well. [link]
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 29 2019


DOH! It's already linked to on the first link.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 29 2019


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Half baked already.
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 29 2019


There was a baked SMS app several years ago—which I have failed to refind since*—that displayed the video feed from the phone's camera in the background, with the SMS interface transparent on top of it, for this kind of purpose. But it was used on phones with normally oriented cameras.

*Unless I'm only misremembering it as being for SMS, and it's actually the email app [Jinbish] linked on the old idea: [link]
-- notexactly, Aug 29 2019



random, halfbakery