Matt Richardson's camera has been developed as part of his course at New York University

Discussion:  A student at New York University developed a “camera” that prints a verbal discription of a photo, instead of a picture.  Though the full technology might not currently exist, the idea is to have the camera recognize what it is taking a picture of and to print out a detailed description.  The printouts can then become cataloged searchable, thus making the data more relavant and useful in the future.  

Source:  BBC News

Date:  April 26, 2012

Link:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17853523

Discussion Questions:

• Besides cataloging photos, how else might this technology be used?
• Why would having the large amounts of data contained in photographs become standardized and searchable be useful?