📸 An AI Camera That Writes Poems Instead of Taking Photos

American designers Carolyn Zhang and Ryan Mather have сreated the Poetry Camera. This Polaroid-style camera writes poems inspired by whatever is in the frame, rather than taking photos.

Inside the 3D-printed device is a small sensor and a credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi single-board computer.

When you press the button, the camera takes a photo and runs a script that sends it to a multimodal LLM. The algorithms then interpret the image and generate a poem, and you can immediately print it on thermal paper.

💡 The original photo is never saved or stored anywhere, for maximum data privacy—the user gets only the poem, with the date and time printed on the paper.

"Everyone has a camera in their pocket through their cell phone now—we wanted to do something very different," the device's creators explain.

➡️ You can buy the camera for $349 or build it yourself—the developers have posted the detailed instructions on GitHub.

Would you use a camera like this?

❤️ — Yes, an interesting concept
🔥 — No, useless gadget

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