On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Tyler Durden wrote:
In antoher context I've wondered about the possibility of wireless, near-real-time video upload. With 3G this will cetainly be easy, but I'm wondering if there are soft/hard gadgets that can auto-upload stuff.(In addition, 3G looks like it's going to roll out in the US only in fits and starts over the next bunch of years.)
Ideally, this upload would be made directly to WWW, but upload to a safe-haven would certainly be better than nothing (particularly if one does not even have any knowledge about where some copies of the upload are auto-uploaded to!).
Anyone done anything like this?
You probably can do something like it in Tokyo right now. There are lots of cell phones with cameras built in there. You just press a button and send it as e-mail. Not exactly streaming video, but 1 frame every couple of seconds by 5 people could be done very easily. I saw 10 year old kids playing with the things. They were taking pictures of their noses, and watching their friends on another train send pictures back. It felt like I was living in the dark ages coming back to the US! Patience, persistence, truth, Dr. mike