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Jhayne pointed me at this interesting little piece of work from a German art student named Sascha Pohflepp. It’s another strange camera, but not one that takes your own photos. What makes this camera unique is that it takes other people’s photos. When you press the shutter button, rather than recording a photo, it records the exact moment when you pressed the button.

It then immediately begins to search the internet for photos that were also taken at that exact same moment. When it finds one, which can take time since people have to go upload the photos, it will display the found photo on the LCD screen.

This makes me think of Flickr’s recent feature addition of geotagging. In addition to searching for photos based on subject, composition elements, style, and colours, you can now search for photos in terms of where they were shot with geotagging. This strange camera allows you to search for when they were shot.

I anticipate the next search add-on will be the ability to search for why a picture was taken.

The fine folks over at We Make Money Not Art also covered this recently.