On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 06:00 PM, Mark Roberts wrote:
That was probably on Kodak's mind when they created the EasyShare system.I think Kodak has the right approach with their digicam "docking station". What they need to do next is produce home printers with this docking station built in (just slide your camera into a slot in the printer - facing backwards so you can preview the pictures in the camera's LCD - and print) and even kiosks in photo shops that either work the same way (choose your pictures and hit print) or just accept a dump of everything in memory and has prints for you in an hour or the next day or whatever.
I think docks are outdated. With wireless technologies becoming more prevalent, they will be building more printers and cameras with built-in wireless capabilities. You can select and crop the pictures in your camera and send it to the printer without worrying about whether the USB cable is too long. When you walk by the kiosk in the photo shop, your camera will sense its presence and beep to ask you if you want your pictures printed.
--jc
