The belated trophy for best photo-related April Fool's gag has to go to the RE-35. A digital cartridge for film cameras? It's so brilliantly silly that it's almost believable.
I guess a lot of others thought so too. The product site became so popular that this morning it collapsed under its own weight and was replaced with a general site marker. Oh well, fun while it lasted. Some tearpages can still be found here.
If I not remember bad there was a promise of something similar at the begin of the digital wave. This guys are very good in design issues. I love the flexisensor technology. Ahahaha
ReplyDeleteThis is what you're thinking of Hernan
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That's hilarious. I had no idea there was a predecessor. Here is infrar3d's complete link.
ReplyDeleteMy $2000 pre-order looks real enough. Oh crap.
ReplyDeletewww.re35.net now has an all-text page confessing it was a prank and noting that there seems to be a lot of pent-up demand for such a product. I'd sure buy one.
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't there one? I 'thought of' this idea months ago;-) I want one.
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