{"id":1237,"date":"2007-09-06T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-06T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T10:00:47","slug":"no-grumpy-pictures-with-new-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/1237-no-grumpy-pictures-with-new-camera.html","title":{"rendered":"No grumpy pictures with new camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electronics giant Sony&nbsp;said on Wednesday it will begin sales this month of the compact &quot;Cyber-shot T&quot; series that can detect a smile and immediately drop the shutter.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer can program the camera to detect which type of facial expression to look for, be it a faint smile or a tooth-baring grin, a Sony spokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p>But the camera is not exclusively designed to take pictures of happy moments, she added. The user can turn off the function and use it as a normal camera.<\/p>\n<p>Similar technology is also available on other Japanese cameras including those made by Olympus, although each company develops the technology independently.<\/p>\n<p>Sony&#39;s DSC-T200 and DSC-T70 will be launched on September 21 at a price starting at 40,000 yen (345 dollars).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For those fed up with the family photos where one person is perpetually frowning, a new Japanese camera is said to automatically weed out pictures when a person isn&#8217;t smiling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}