yego.me
💡 Stop wasting time. Read Youtube instead of watch. Download Chrome Extension

This Is the Extraordinary True Story of the First Camera Phone | Short Film Showcase


2m read
·Nov 11, 2024

[Music] The first commercially successful digital camera was a Natasha camera. When that came, I really realized, together with the cell phone, it becomes the poet of the 21st century. [Music] Link generator, know something in the email authenticator. I think it was a day like any of the other days; she was late. [Music] [Music] It's one of the few occurrences where you have a chance to speed and not be stopped. [Music]

"License and registration please." So, I explained to the officer that we were going to labor. The officer was funny; he said, "I heard that line before." This is 1997. The maternity doesn't have Wi-Fi; it doesn't exist yet. If I wanted to share pictures instantly, I needed to be able to talk to this phone physically and then use this Eureka moment.

"How's it going? Don't have the right cable? Give your soldering iron one down two flights of stairs and basically ripped up the fall speakerphone from the car." [Music]

I had a laptop on a desk that was next to the c-section operating table. It had a long wire that connected the camera to it, and the laptop was connected to the server that was my kitchen. I'm holding the baby in my left hand, and I'm holding the camera in the other one. It went out to about 2,000 people: friends, family, and business connections. Point, shoot, and share instantly!

I start getting emails: "How do you do that? The date says that your daughter was born like 15 minutes ago, and I just got that!"

'97, on that day, June 11, 1997, there were two births, and most important was my daughter, Sophie, obviously, and the camera phone. There’s a very profound impact of instant imagery and sharing imagery that is going to change society and the way people evolve. [Music] [Music]

More Articles

View All
Adding 3-digit numbers (no regrouping) | 2nd grade | Khan Academy
[Voiceover] So I have two numbers here that I wanna add together. The first number is 327, and that means three hundreds. I have a three in the hundreds place. You see them right over here. You see the three hundreds, each of these big squares have a hund…
A Hidden Gravel Pit | Port Protection
It’s one of the most rewarding things in life to be able to go out to the ocean and not only get our food but food for the docks. Hans and Timby have anchored their skiff at the mouth of a rocky fissure, hoping to scavenge a key ingredient in their homema…
How Growing Trees Helps Fight Poverty in Cameroon | National Geographic
[Music] Just imagine that you are a farmer in Cameroon. You spend all your life struggling to cultivate cocoa, coffee, and rubber, cutting which you don’t eat. They are called cash crops, and that’s where the problem lies. Big Industry fixes their prices,…
Passive Income: How Much You Need Invested To Make $200 Per Day
What’s up you guys? It’s Graham here. So today, we’re going to be finally answering the age-old question that everyone wants to know. It’s something that affects all of us, and it’s a topic that mathematicians and philosophers have been analyzing since th…
Measure lengths to nearest 1/4
[Instructor] We are asked, what is the height of the sunflower? So pause this video and think about it. All right, so let’s see. The bottom of the sunflower is right aligned with the bottom of the ruler, so the ruler’s in the right place. And let’s see,…
Life's Biggest Questions
Use the other day, one bitter, but then I took a step back—not literally, of course—but I really thought about it. I came to the conclusion that nothing in life really matters. Here’s why: The Earth has been around for four and a half billion years. One …