Look at these pictures...
More proof that gadgets should serve a singular function: The Boston Globe reports today that many health clubs are banning cell phones with built-in cameras due to privacy issues. Apparently people who are trying to make their naked body look good don't want pictures of their naked body broadcast to the rest of the world. I guess not everyone would be willing to appear on a reality TV show: eating worms and being on TV is better than eating well and not being on TV to some people.
Cell phone cameras give us a much different than the Jetsons offered, eh? In the Jetsons, George and Jane and Spacely stared into a stationary picture phone device. With the cell phone camera, you can just carry it in your pocket. Pretty soon the cell phone will go from being a phone, internet, email and camera to being some sort of mobile ID passport. Verbal Jazz has both a cell phone and a digital camera (Verbal Jazz likes to go visual sometimes, go figure) but is happy to have them be two different devices.
Then the paranoiac in me envisions that soon you could have some Dudley-Do Right sort photogging all sorts of marginal criminal behavior and forwarding the images to the local police. Not that I would be doing anything wrong, mind you, but the idea of someone watching me to wait for me to do something wrong I find a bit disconcerting.
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More proof that gadgets should serve a singular function: The Boston Globe reports today that many health clubs are banning cell phones with built-in cameras due to privacy issues. Apparently people who are trying to make their naked body look good don't want pictures of their naked body broadcast to the rest of the world. I guess not everyone would be willing to appear on a reality TV show: eating worms and being on TV is better than eating well and not being on TV to some people.
Cell phone cameras give us a much different than the Jetsons offered, eh? In the Jetsons, George and Jane and Spacely stared into a stationary picture phone device. With the cell phone camera, you can just carry it in your pocket. Pretty soon the cell phone will go from being a phone, internet, email and camera to being some sort of mobile ID passport. Verbal Jazz has both a cell phone and a digital camera (Verbal Jazz likes to go visual sometimes, go figure) but is happy to have them be two different devices.
Then the paranoiac in me envisions that soon you could have some Dudley-Do Right sort photogging all sorts of marginal criminal behavior and forwarding the images to the local police. Not that I would be doing anything wrong, mind you, but the idea of someone watching me to wait for me to do something wrong I find a bit disconcerting.
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