Tag: CAMERAPHONE

Toyspring has issued a major update to PalmOS game Arcade Reality. In a nutshell, Arcade Reality lets you zap aliens. But unlike a billion other space invaders-themed games, this one is played in real space using the camera on Palm Treo phones. The video is actually of version 1.0 or Arcade Reality. Version 1.1 includes the following updates: Bitmap aliens explosions are much cooler. When ...

Camera phones are undoubtedly alluring, but even the best of them produce mediocre images. Aaron Straup Cope, unsatisfied with his results, built filtr, a shell script for FreeBSD and OSX that will takes your blah camera phone photos and lets you apply one of seven filters to it: dazd, heathr, postcrd, postr, stndpipe, rockstr, and filtr. There's also movr, which will turn a video file into a ...

ScanR is an interesting service that lets you turn your camera phone into a "scanner." Basically you snap a shot of a document or whiteboard with your 1MP-or-better camera phone and e-mail it to ScanR, whereupon they'll send you a cleaned up, tagged version of the image as a PDF or a fax. The examples on the ScanR web site are pretty impressive, and if the fax option works well it might ...

ZoneTag is a new app from Yahoo! Research that enables certain Nokia Series 60 to upload cameraphone pics directly to Flickr with two keypresses. The cool part, though, is that the photos are automatically location-tagged via some magic with cell tower IDs. Now I wish I had a Series 60 phone. Conveniently, ZoneTag is free. [Via the Unofficial Yahoo! Weblog] ...

Wouldn't it be nice if you could snap a photo of some landmark--say, the Arc de Triomphe--with your camera phone and get back the Wikipedia article about it? That's the goal of Semapedia: to be the "Physical Wikipedia." It works like this: You enter the address of a Wikipedia article about a landmark and it will give you a semacode graphic that you can print out and stick it to the ...