With the company's own software, Kodak engineers pasted together 65 digital photographs of a water cooler bottle taken from various angles. Someone off stage navigated the audience around, over and then inside the bottle. The demo, said Carp, involved a 185KB file. With the preview, users can view a shot immediately after taking the picture and decide whether to keep it. If they want to discard it, the camera marks the film to notify the processing center not to print that particular frame.
Users can also mark a picture to have multiple copies made.
Kodak already sells versions of the device, which basically turns Palm Pilot devices into a digital camera, for the Palm III, V and VII lines. A new business unit devoted to further developing the company's patented flat-panel display technology, the Organic Light Emitting Diode. The Kodak Display business unit will be based in Walnut Creek, Calif., and be headed by Les Polgar. Carp has high hopes for the division, which he said will manufacture OLED displays for cell phones, digital cameras and car radios. In a few years, he hopes to start putting them in notebook computers.