Photographers like smiles, but capturing them can be tough. So Sony is launching a with optical recognition that spots the shape of a smiling mouth and snaps the digital shutter at just the right moment. If there are several people in the view, the photographer touches the screen to select one of them as 鈥渟mile control鈥�. The new Cyber-shot cameras go on sale this month, costing from 拢229 or $300.
It鈥檚 a one-man band for the robotic age. You don a with 12 sensors, then as you move, the sensors鈥� outputs are translated into commands that control a band of five 鈥溾��, each playing a different instrument. As each of your actions controls a different robotic action, the system makes music that one person alone could not, claims co-creator Suguru Goto of IRCAM in Paris, France.
