Good looking people use Intel toys!
I talked to good man Ben from partially.org (check out the animations!) yesterday, who was carrying an Intel Play Digital Camera.
Now this little baby is a miracle of design, usability and just plain coolness. You can take a few minutes of video, audio, you can do stop-motion animation, and it just has like 5 buttons. Ben told me the software is amazingly easy to use as well. I’ve been trying to locate one for sale on the web, no such luck so far…
At Liga1.com I pointed before at the ethnographers Intel employs (like Genevieve Bell) to better understand humans and technology. I didn’t really understand which products they were working on. Now I know. Check out some of their research.
April 18th, 2002 at 9:52 pm
Update: it turns out this product has been discontinued! Damn!
April 19th, 2002 at 4:06 pm
eBay has a couple:
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&query=intel+play+digital+camera&ht=1&itemtimedisp=1&st=2&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&BasicSearch=
April 23rd, 2002 at 9:55 am
It turns out Intel discontinued the entire camera line (or even all consumer toys?) and decided to focus on producing chips once more.