Digital input on the street

I love these street-machines that allow you to print your pictures. The best part for me is the INPUT system, look at that machine spotted yesterday in Renens, Switzerland:

Interface observed on the street #3

2 interesting things:
- Such a great variety of input (I only miss the floppy disc reader). One can also wonder if there are other street machines which allows not only INPUT but also OUTPUT like… going to a vending machine with a USB key to download TV series, prOn, games, etc.
- Think about the motivations for people to actually go there and use it, instead of uploading the pics to a webserver and waiting them to be shipped. A truly urban computing node?

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2 Responses to “Digital input on the street”

  1. Tiago M. Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

    “going to a vending machine with a USB key to download TV series, prOn, games”
    What you’ve got here is… a possible killer app :D

    If you throw in an input device to scan parts of our minds, I’m sure people would be getting a lot of TV series, games and pr0n out of their heads ;)

  2. Rekha Says:
    October 19th, 2007 at 6:40 pm

    I love it. Is there a photo preview screen? I could imagine a situation where they choose not to have a screen, to minimize each user’s session. It would be too easy to get mesmerized looking at your photos as a line of customers forms behind you, getting annoyed.

    My parents would love this. They don’t understand how to manage their photos on their computer, let alone upload them to a third-party site. The apparent plug-and-play aspect of this would make photo printing accessible to them, especially if the printouts match the digital photos’ aspect ratio.

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