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Several weeks ago, I took a look at Nikon's CoolPix P2 Wi-Fi camera. My conclusion was that the camera's bonus Wi-Fi capabilities didn't do a lot to augment its appeal. Kodak's approach was to make a connected Wi-Fi device that does a lot of things- taking pictures is just one of them. By presenting this not as a camera but as a whole new way of managing and sharing pictures, Kodak succeeds where Nikon failed...
...With the EasyShare-One, we see this mantra elevated to the next plane: the camera is literally connected, via Wi-Fi, to the online EasyShare Gallery. If you have pictures up there already, the camera can act as a remote viewer and manager. Albums that friends and family have shared with you are also accessible. If you want to upload pictures you just took into an online album, and e-mail those albums around, you can do it with a few clicks, without once touching your computer. On the Nikon, I enjoyed being able to send shots to a slideshow...
...fi purity of the album evokes a young painter’s sketchbook, prepared by the eager apprentice as he learns to see through others’ eyes before truly exercising...
London commuters must feel like they've stumbled into a sci-fi flick. On the platform at Notting Hill Gate underground station, a poster for American singer Jack Johnson doesn't just promote his latest album, In Between Dreams - it plays three of the tracks. On the main escalator at Tottenham Court Road, nearly half a million riders a month watch ads such as an overflowing bath - for home insurers Direct Line - cascade down a line of 33 LED screens. And when Coldplay launched their album X&Y in May, giant screens beamed invitations to every turned-on, Bluetooth mobile...
...imaginable movie genre and made at least half a dozen pictures that are among the best of their breed, including The Set-Up, a tragic boxing tale whose running time matched the time elapsed in the story; a tough-as-nails noir, Born to Kill; and the sublime sci-fi masterpiece The Day the Earth Stood Still. In those films, as in his other Oscar winner, West Side Story, in which his camera was a fully choreographed partner with Jerome Robbins' dancers, his impeccable and unpretentious craftsmanship became the true assertion of a modest, subtle and humane temperament. He became...