Sony's Party-shot dock crashes faux festivities to prove its potential for automated blackmail
By Ross Miller 
posted August 8th 2009 5:39PM
posted August 8th 2009 5:39PM
posted August 8th 2009 5:39PM
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Photographer, anyone?
Advantages: a) Can position themselves in the appropriate location to get close to the action, which may be a long way from the Party-shotbot. b) Less likely to be stolen - or knocked over - unless blindingly drunk.
Why do the Japanese keep trying (without success to date) to obsolete themselves?
I think this good for a casual party.
Also good for shooting amateur porn without that FAP FAP FAP noises, camera shaking and whispered directions in the back round.
LMAO.... "whispered directions in the back round"
Devastating typo/spelling mistake; or brilliant joke?
Someone make a genitalia detection firmware or all the porn from now on is just going to be pictures of peoples faces.
craptastic! I personally don't find anything useful for the robotic swivel if it's just a photo camera. If it's video...ya, photos...no
True, would be a lot better but that will soon come i bet in the next three week or so. But not as craptastic as the itablet.
It might be a little bit premature to give the "craptastic" award to the itablet, a product that hasn't been officially announced (or named).
This is really cool. Does it have a standard tripod hole? Would work great with a gorillapod! Put this on a tree/fence somewhere, and let the blackmailing begins. LOL.
Standard Tripod "Hole" probably yes but I bet they are still in love with Memory stick pro duo...
So expect to pay about $10,000 for a 16GB stick.
Will this help all those blurry pics humans seems to like taking.
Mmmmm... Nope; me do not like it. Nonono
The Sony "potty-shot," eh?
Oh my god I could listen to that line over and over again hahaha "We've got the lights, we've got the disco ball, but unfortunately we've got no friends"
Increasing narcissism one picture at a time. These will be in every corner of the White House...
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for transparencies sake :D
this has almost no demographic, if you own one you probably don't go to many parties, and if you're at the good parties where everyone's too drunk to be camera shy...if you have money left after paying for "party goods" you're probably in the former category.
then again it might have some uses for family gatherings or really anything where someone isn't going to steal the camera.
They took my idea, I suggested using the p&s's ability to track faces as an aiming device for home project, now the time it would take to develop and set up production later, sony releases this, but it's all OK, I'm like tesla, just pleased if ideas get used in some form even if someone else 'invents' it.
Of course you have no friends... asking people to come to your "potty" so you can take pictures will do that. Great idea to have at a party where you have well-trusted guests, such as family and close friends. Unfortunately I don't have either.
I wonder if it'll mount to a Roomba.
This brings me back. Way back. Konica had essentially the same technology ages ago. It was on a technology show I watched at least 15 years ago. Balloons would pop or cheers would be heard and the cam would quickly swivel and take a shot.
Now Sony looks like it has decided to release this.
(Konica of course became Konica-Minolta which was then bought by Sony).
I like how near the end of the video, the camera is scanning around for people on the floor.
Sounds like my kind of party!
If the party's any good, it'll be crowded and people will block the camera, unless you rope it off which isn't practical. Would be nice to mount it above the crowd (although pictures might seem odd) like a security camera on a tall tripod. Also good to have the camera roam the room so that shots aren't always from the same angle and/or of the same people who have camped out in the same location for a long time.