Descriptive Camera

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The “Descriptive Camera” doesn’t work like your normal point-and-shoot camera. Instead, this contraption prints out a description of the photo you take, rather than an image itself. …. the camera snaps a picture, then sends it to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, a service in which humans are paid a small sum to do jobs that computers cannot solve, like describing the contents of a picture. “After the shutter button is pressed, the photo is sent to Mechanical Turk for processing and the camera waits for the results,” Mr. Richardson writes. ”Results are returned typically within 6 minutes and sometimes as fast as 3 minutes. The thermal printer outputs the resulting text in the style of a Polaroid print.”

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