Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Getting a Good Shot: Remote Picture Taking with Mobile Phones (05 Aug 2005) We have prototyped a new consumer imaging device, a remote camera, that leverages the mobile phone and provides a key capability not found in today’s digital still cameras and camera phones. Specifically our remote capture unit allows a user to capture images from a vantage point that would otherwise be impractical or socially unacceptable to use. We use a mobile phone as a view finder and a remote control. Possibilities exist for a new product, an accessory for an existing digital still camera (DSC), or integration into an existing DSC. Article URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/2005/HPL-2005-142.html Read 130 more articles from HP Labs sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: An Interview with Flickr's Eric Costello     This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy