Oy, commercials.
Here's my first official post of the summer.
I was watching TV and I saw this commercial for a new feature on this one brand of digital camera. A warning pops up when you've taken a picture of someone who was blinking at the time. A label flashes across the picture and it says, "BLINKING!" or something to that effect.
My question is . . . isn't it a digital camera anyway? Isn't that the perk? You can see your photos immediately? So why does this feature need to exist? You can see right off if someone was blinking or not. You don't need a blinking alert system. If this was a regular film camera, this might be a better invention. With film cameras, you can't see your pictures right off, so if something inside the camera analyzed the film right off and alerted you to the fact that someone blinked, then it might actually be useful.
This, just like the digital book invention, does not need to exist. It's . . . just . . . stupid!
If you can't tell by looking at your picture that someone is blinking in it--if you have to have a banner scroll across the screen telling you this--then maybe you're too dumb to own a camera in the first place.
I was watching TV and I saw this commercial for a new feature on this one brand of digital camera. A warning pops up when you've taken a picture of someone who was blinking at the time. A label flashes across the picture and it says, "BLINKING!" or something to that effect.
My question is . . . isn't it a digital camera anyway? Isn't that the perk? You can see your photos immediately? So why does this feature need to exist? You can see right off if someone was blinking or not. You don't need a blinking alert system. If this was a regular film camera, this might be a better invention. With film cameras, you can't see your pictures right off, so if something inside the camera analyzed the film right off and alerted you to the fact that someone blinked, then it might actually be useful.
This, just like the digital book invention, does not need to exist. It's . . . just . . . stupid!
If you can't tell by looking at your picture that someone is blinking in it--if you have to have a banner scroll across the screen telling you this--then maybe you're too dumb to own a camera in the first place.