In the list of strange gadgets on which we are already working (and ranging from Mickey Mouse ears for the iPad to the monkey - and unhelpful - Little Printer through the first 3D chocolate printer) now includes the surprising camera that writes what he photographs.

The prototype has been dubbed Descriptive Camera and is a project by Matt Richardson signed, as FastCompany points. The kick-off of the camera was the lack of descriptive data on the images: photos are filled with metadata, but they show things like camera model, the place or time. There is no real description of what is happening, something that explains what the image contains.

"The Descriptive Camera works very similarly to that of a regular camera," explains its director in his official site. "You aim the target and press the button to capture the image. However, instead of producing an image, the prototype gives a text description of the scene, "he adds.



Human help
To achieve these results, Descriptive Camera used as the basic point of Amazon Mechanical Turk API, which covers with human labor that where technology fails. In a collaborative way, a group of people connected to the network cover the descriptions of those images that people upload to the Internet (it costs $ 1.25 for description). This makes printing is not instantaneous, but the waiting time is not very high.

The results did, however, are surprising and funny, "art", as explained in FastCompany. "It's a blur of a dilapidated building. It seems to be coming down and need repairs, "is an example of one of these curious descriptive photographs.

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