REVIEW: GOOGLE CLIPS
chinatopwin
chinatopwin
2018-02-28 09:27:08
just a camera feels incomplete. Yes, it has a lens and a battery and it captures videos, but
everything else about it is unique. You don't tap a shutter button or give it any command to take a
picture or shoot a video. You just turn it on (by twisting its lens like a knob), set it down, and point
it at whatever humans or pets are nearby. Clips has a computer chip inside with a simplified
version of Google's computer-vision code on board, and the device uses this chip to identify only
the most savory moments of what it's seeing. Point it at the kids for five minutes while they dance
and play and run around, then open the app on your phone to find a half-dozen or so
seven-second clips, ready to be shared with the rest of your family.
So it's part camera, part machine-learning AI computer, part Vine-in-a-box. It all adds up to a lot of
So it's part camera, part machine-learning AI computer, part Vine-in-a-box. It all adds up to a lot of
fun, especially for people with young kids who like to share cute videos of their offspring—two
populations that, I'd guess, almost wholly overlap.