The device is called “Buttons” and it was designed as an art project by Sascha Pohflepp, a student at the Berlin University of the Arts. Though about the size of a digital camera, the box features no optics at all: just an LCD display and a big red shutter button. Pressing the button doesn’t take a picture, instead starting a chain reaction that will eventually result in the displaying of a picture taken in the exact same instinct as your own picture. The guts of the device are a Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone. When the button (cribbed from an Agfamtic 901) is pressed, the phone transmits the time to a special website that then searches Flickr for a picture taken at that time. When a picture is found, it will be downloaded to the phone and displayed. Of course, this might take a few hours or more, so it’s not for the instant gratification set. Sometimes you have to be patient for art .
[via SCI FI Tech ]