Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] CES!

[Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

>OK, so this is lame unless (as I suspect) the "photographs" you get
>are digital.
>
Of course. It had a sort of scanner-like interface that took several 
shots from different angles all at once and then let you pick the one 
that looked the best.

>But then it does become a completely killer accessory
>for a lot of online stores, including, believe it or not, online
>bookstores.  Two or three times so far we'e bought used books over the
>net, but each time we were worried that the seller's "excellent"
>condition would turn out to mean "none of the pages are falling
>out...yet".   You can't judge a book by its cover, but you can often
>judge a book's *condition* by its cover. :-)
>
>But seriously, the killer app for something like this is actually
>cataloguing stuff that comes from estates.  Don't ask me why I know
>this, but I'll say that if we could have rented one of these a few
>years back when we were settling my mom's estate, it would have been
>much easier to deal with some things more efficiently.
>
It'd really save anyone that needed photographs of small objects a lot 
of hassle. I'd like to see a larger version available for people who 
need to photograph larger objects. At the size this one is you could 
photograph a motherboard but not a full size case. Or in terms of an 
estate, you could photograph a jewelry box but not a table.

A place like Kinkos could do pretty well allowing people to rent the use 
of this kind of thing just like they can rent a copier or scanner now.

-- 
Michael <EMAIL:PROTECTED>
http://kavlon.org

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