Photographers like smiles, but capturing them can be tough. So Sony is launching a digital camera with optical recognition that spots the shape of a smiling mouth and snaps the digital shutter at just the right moment. If there are several people in the view, the photographer touches the screen to select one of them as “smile control”. The new Cyber-shot cameras go on sale this month, costing from £229 or $300.
It’s a one-man band for the robotic age. You don a motion-capture body suit with 12 sensors, then as you move, the sensors’ outputs are translated into…
