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Could phones bridge the photo-sharing generation gap?

By Paul Marks

21 October 2009

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Sharing a picture moment

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It in your hands.  Researchers demonstrate the photo sharing system at the University of Newcastle

It in your hands. Researchers demonstrate the photo sharing system at the University of Newcastle

(Image: University of Newcastle)

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”.

Help could be at hand, however. Researchers at Deutsche Telekom in Germany and the…

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