{"id":17535,"date":"2012-05-01T08:08:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=6578"},"modified":"2012-05-01T08:08:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-01T15:08:57","slug":"forget-pixels-gimme-glyphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/01\/forget-pixels-gimme-glyphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Photography: Forget pixels, gimme glyphs"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Matt Richardson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mattrichardson.com\/Descriptive-Camera\/\">Descriptive Camera<\/a> captures images, uses real people to describe them, and then prints out only the descriptions they create. &#8220;The technology at the core of the Descriptive Camera is Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk API. It allows a developer to submit Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) for workers on the internet to complete.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/12\/04\/the-descriptive-camera\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Adobe researcher Dan Goldman notes, &#8220;This is not just a nutty art project: the same general idea is actually being used to help blind people.&#8221; He points out <a href=\"http:\/\/vizwiz.org\/\">VizWiz<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;an iPhone app that allows blind users to receive quick answers to questions about their surroundings. VizWiz combines automatic image processing, anonymous web workers, and members of the user&#8217;s social network in order to collect fast and accurate answers to their questions.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/textinstagram\">Text-Only Instagram<\/a>\u00a0is spot on. <em>Hip hip clich\u00e9!<\/em>\u00a0[Via Mark Kawano]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Richardson&#8217;s Descriptive Camera captures images, uses real people to describe them, and then prints out only the descriptions they create. &#8220;The technology at the core of the Descriptive Camera is Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk API. It allows a developer to submit Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) for workers on the internet to complete.&#8221; [Via] Adobe researcher [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535"}],"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=17535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}