Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Orangutan takes photos, shares them on Facebook

What an interesting article it is! Orangutan takes pictures and share them on Facebook.


The CNET has posted this article as follows. You may click following link for more information:  http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10408626-36.html 



An orangutan in the Vienna Zoo takes pictures that are uploaded to Facebook. No, she didn't take the self-portrait.

(Credit: Nonja's Facebook page)






She's like the Ashton Kutcher of the ape world: an orangutan in the Vienna Zoo now has a Facebook fan page to showcase the photos she takes with a digital camera. The orangutan, named Nonja, uses a Samsung ST 1000 point-and-shoot that automatically uploads the photos.


When this post was published, Nonja had over 9,000 "fans" subscribed to her page.


But there's a catch: coverage of the camera-toting ape in the U.K.'s Daily Mail explains that the camera has been modified to dispense a raisin whenever the shutter button is pushed. So Nonja is evidently more interested in tasty treats than in artistic endeavors.


The non-orangutan version of the Samsung ST 1000 was released this summer (though not in the U.S.) and is equipped with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS.

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