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The Descriptive Camera by NYU ITP grad student Matt Richardson is an experimental camera that only outputs a text description of whatever is photographed. It is powered by the Amazon Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing API—somewhere on the Internet a person sees the photo, describes it briefly, and the text is sent back to the camera for [...]
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This camera doesn’t want to simply duplicate whatever you see through the viewfinder, it would rather describe the whole scene to you via text. Created by Matt Richardson to explore the possibility of adding metadata to digital phot... Read Post

A student at New York University has created a camera which prints out text descriptions of what it sees rather than photos.Creator Matt Richardson said he came up with the idea for his 'Descriptive Camera' after thinking about the.... Read Post

Matt Richardson's "Descriptive Camera" sends your pictures to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and jobs out the task of writing a brief description of each image, then outputs the text on a thermal printer. It's a camera that captures descr... Read Post