A clever designer at the Samsung Art and Design Institute has solved one of mankind's peskiest problems: how to share photos with your friends.
In truth, this was answered long ago by the camera phone, and later, by direct uploads to Facebook. But should you be hanging out with some more old-school buddies, Jung Eun Park's UCIM is for you. The concept camera features a trio of USB-ports. When taking snaps that you want to share, you collect up your friends' thumb-drives and plug them in. Any photos you take are copied direct to all the sticks.
Teasing aside, this is a very nice feature, and easily avoids the two alternative scenarios: One, you take every picture three times, once with each camera. Only one of these photos will have everybody with their eyes open. Second, the person with a camera promises to email the photos, or burn them to a CD. Or something. Only they never send them, or if they do, then you get crappy low-res files, or a subset of all the pics taken. This solves the problem of lazy, lying friends.
The UCIM is also cute-looking, although the USB-ports could be put into any camera, not just this puffy, marshmallow-flavored case. I'm sold. Or I would be, if I hadn't discovered a great new trick of my own. Borrow a friend's iPhone, take my picture and then email it to myself. If you try this, always remember to mail the full-resolution version. It's not your 3G bandwidth you're using up, after all.
Take Picture, Share Picture [Yanko]
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