I recently read yet another fascinating piece on new frontiers in technology related to new ways of controlling electronic devices. As the BBC News piece reads, “Tapping your forearm or hand with a finger could soon be the way you interact with gadgets.”
Since I’ve been reading about other versions of related technology, I’ve been trying to think up a great post in which I say something insightful (or at least witty) about how this relates to photographic technology.
But, um, I’m not coming up with anything particularly good, but I decided to share the news piece with you anyway, and to put the question out to you: Have you read forecasts about how such technology will relate to our image making in years (or months) to come? If not, do you have any insightful (or witty) thoughts on the topic?
Sure, there is one idea that is a given. To paraphrase the hundreds of future-thinkers that know more than I do: Photography will soon will involve technology in ways that we simply cannot imagine.
That’s the “problem.” How can we imagine what we can’t imagine. And why do we need to? — especially when we are trying so damn hard just to keep up with today’s technology. (Or, in my case, yesterday’s technology.) Continue reading “Cameras Controlled by Bodily Input”
