Modern photo-sharing with an old-school twist

摘要

It's a latter-day social affliction: you visit friends or family, only for them to whip out a laptop and run a seemingly endless photo slide show - perhaps using an online outfit such as Flickr or Picasa. But for those people used to savouring prints as they are passed around, such shows can be about as compelling as "death by Powerpoint".rnHelp could be at hand, however. Researchers at Deutsche Telekom in Germany and the University of Newcastle in the UK have dreamed up a curious cellphone-centred way to bridge the gap between what they call the Kodak and Flickr generations.