When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother's Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped.
Wang, a Taiwanese-American strategy consultant who goes by the Web handle "jozjozjoz," thought it was funny that the camera had difficulties figuring out when her family had their eyes open. So she posted a photo of the blink warning on her blog under the title, "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" The post was picked up by Gizmodo and Boing Boing, and prompted at least one commenter to note, "You would think that Nikon, being a Japanese company, would have designed this with Asian eyes in mind." (See Techland's top 10 gadgets of 2009.)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100122/w ... 9195464300
I can see where this would be a pain in the a$$ but still thought it kinda funny, I started to read the story only because I ALWAYS blink when the flash goes off...
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Speaking of tech crisis..... I can't get the rest of the smiley's to work right... when you click on view more smilies, it is like opening another window... I know, I know.... (just fix it ) pretty please
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Hmmm, send JPatton a message and wake his a$$ up.. He did those... lol
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