Punch Camera prints hole-filled papers

Leonard Goh | Oct 04, 2009

(Credit: Matty Martin)

Designer Matty Martin's Punch Camera has a built-in printer, but it doesn't use ink to print photographs. Instead, the device punches holes of different sizes on a piece of paper to "print" the captured image.

Inside the Punch Camera are rows of puncturing mechanisms. After a picture is taken and sent to print, the shooter will first convert the image to halftone and then align the punchers and choose the appropriate hole size for each area. Once done, users will just have to slot a piece of paper into the snapper and press down to create the picture.

Martin also conceptualized a program which makes use of Web cams and face detection technology to analyze such hole-filled papers and search on the Internet for pictures with the same person in it.

Right now, there are no plans for the Punch Camera to go on sale. But if there is such a shooter, will you go for it?

Via Gizmodo

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