Check out the 'Iris Camera': a camera controlled by your eye
I recently checked out the RCA postgraduate show and found a biometrics enabled camera controlled by your eye. Designed by Mimi Zou, a London based designer, the camera understands who you are by looking at your Iris signature and lets you capture exactly what you see by tracking your eye. It's a really interesting concept, although I wonder how practical it might be. Combine this with face recognition and you have the perfect storm!
Capturing smiles around the world with the Yoko Ono mobile photography app
I also went to the Yoko Ono exhibition at the Serpentine recently which was a massive disappointment. However, her latest mobile photography project promises to be so much more rewarding. Say hello to #smilesfilm an app which compiles all of the pictures of people’s smiles taken and uploaded to either Twitter or Instagram with the hashtag #smilesfilm.
Smartphones are no longer phones they are passports to your digital life
A new survey in the UK found that while people spend just three minutes a day taking photographs, photography was the most popular thing to use a smartphone for, with 74 per cent saying that they had taken photos with their handset. Plus a whopping 17 mins 9 seconds is spent on social media, second only to mobile internet use. The future of social mobile photography is safe!
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