Now that's .... well at the least interesting. In the early days of photography, stereoscopic viewing was all the rage, it is estimated that over half the households in the UK and US owned a stereoscope. Photographers travelled the world taking stereoscopic photographs for a population who were unable to travel widely themselves. Fast forward 100 years and with the help of what is now an antique stereoscope, a digital camera, and a device such as an IPOD-Photo, one can once again view colour stereopair images without specialised computer hardware. For those wondering what "stereoscopic" is all about, viewing stereoscopic images give an enhanced depth perception. This is similar to the depth perception we get in real life.
For those who don't know anything about an IPOD-Photo. It is a pocket size device that comes with either a 40GB or 60GB drive, wonderful for carrying around large file collections. When connected to a computer by USB or FireWire it appears as an additional hard disk. The main use is perhaps as a portable music playback device, it has internal software to manage a music library and a standard stereo output for headphones or an amplifier.
The feature used in this discussion is its colour display and photo/image ability. Images can be downloaded to the IPOD-Photo, the images can subsequently be recalled and presented on the colour display. A series of images can also be presented manually or as a self running slide show with some user selected delay between each image. So to use this as a stereoscopic storage and presentation device one simply labels two IPOD-Photos as "left" and "right", the images corresponding to each eye are installed on the appropriate IPOD-Photo.
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