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I hadn’t heard of disposable digital cameras until I read about them today, now I see the idea is more popular than I imagined! This is a really neat idea though. Imagine you go on holiday and you want to send a postcard to Grandma. The pictures on the postcards never really capture your holiday though do they? So what you do instead is buy one of these babies, take some snaps, pop it in the post and Gran gets to see a slideshow of you all enjoying yourself on vacation.

Stamp of approval for disposable camera – Breaking – Technology – smh.com.au

Calvey’s Snap+Send Postcard, a disposable digital camera, is so light and inexpensive it can be sent in the mail. All it needs is a stamp. “You would buy it at a newsagent or photo developer, take a few shots and, once it’s full, you stick a stamp on it, address it and put it in the postbox,” Calvey says. “Then grandma, or your girlfriend, gets it. They tear open the perforations, fold out a little kick stand on the back and sit it on a bench top. Then it’s as simple as pressing a button and it will go through a slide show of images.”

I have one thing to say against. Mobile phone cameras. Already the postcard is less used nowadays because of text messaging and long distance calls being so much cheaper. As more people have capable phones picture messages are going to be the primary method of sending vacation messages. Don’t think Granddad could handle opening a MMS? What makes you think they could get the head around these any more likely? Actually my Mum and Dad are getting really good with the old modern gadgets, it would probably be them sending them to us.

Source: Digital Photography Blog Postcard Disposable Digital Camera