{"id":15781,"date":"2009-04-02T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/hipster-cam-idea-o-the-day.html"},"modified":"2009-04-02T15:54:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T15:54:29","slug":"hipster_cam_idea_o_the_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/02\/hipster_cam_idea_o_the_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hipster cam idea o&#039; the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes and I were looking at the very raw guts of a prototype camera today&#8211;a bunch of naked circuit boards, wires, etc.  Someone mentioned the mass of the whole contraption, and Bryan said, &#8220;Looks like it&#8217;s the size of a VHS tape.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This got me thinking: How about making a hipster camera that&#8217;s actually housed inside the shell of a VHS cassette?  Turning the big wheels could flip through photos or adjust camera settings.  C&#8217;mon, you know some goateed weasel would just love taking off-axis shots using a ginormous plastic case.  For bonus points, kit it out with a greasy little lens &amp; call the results &#8220;artsy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[See also: <a href=\"http:\/\/catchupblog.typepad.com\/catch_up_blog\/2007\/02\/80s_brick_cell_.html\">Retro brick cell phone<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>[Update: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-10213570-1.html?part=rss&amp;tag=feed&amp;subj=Crave\">Close enough<\/a>! [Via Hughes]]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan O&#8217;Neil Hughes and I were looking at the very raw guts of a prototype camera today&#8211;a bunch of naked circuit boards, wires, etc. Someone mentioned the mass of the whole contraption, and Bryan said, &#8220;Looks like it&#8217;s the size of a VHS tape.&#8221; This got me thinking: How about making a hipster camera that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}