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Oct 15, 2010

Put Your Camera on Canon's Prototype Dock and Watch it Magically Charge and Share


Well, it's inductive charging, not magic. But Canon's Cross Media dock looks like a particularly sweet implementation, letting you not only juice up to three cameras or camcorders sans wires, but suck down and share your pics and vids too.

As soon as your camera is placed on the prototype's surface—and don't expect it to be anything more than a prototype for at least a couple years—the box will pull over your content and send it to your TV via HDMI, where you can browse at your leisure. Sure beats having to mess with memory cards, no? Now just give us a universal version of this that works with any camera brand (and phones!).

41 comments:

  1. looks cool. like microsoft's table.

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  2. Thats awesome :0, I wan't it now! looks like the Microsoft surface idea, but people can actually buy it

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  3. this would make life a lot easier.

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  4. Oh, dat's very useful, great idea.

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  5. wow sweeet.. How much does that cost?

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  6. Don't leave bedroom gymnastic shots on your camera.

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  7. Hmm, looks like I need a new camera, AGAIN!!!

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  8. off topic question:

    that profile picture isn't you, am I right? .____.

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  9. I envision a future where a handheld version this will be used to steal pictures from peoples cameras by police, security, and other thief types

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  10. make it a work on a touch screen and I am sold!

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  11. Wow. That's amazing. Do want. :D

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  12. Wow really cool, but how does it charge the cameras battery without a cable?

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  13. @Lossy, it's probably similar to the wireless charges they have for PDA's and things like that, the powermat I think it's called.

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  14. That is awesome and very useful!

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  15. Looks like microsoft's table, given this is Canon though it probably functions better.

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  16. Wonderful!
    All these cords are pissing me off

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  17. looks cool and expensive
    gonna steal it

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  18. Ok that is pretty damn cool. I would buy it.

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  19. That's really cool. Now to get a nifty camera

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  20. That looks pretty awesome.
    Now i just need Canon gadgets

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