camera phone

When you just have to take a photo and you aren't committed enough to always have a camera on hand, you shrug and figure the camera phone will have to do. At least you smile as you browse through all of your random, I didn't have a real camera, moments when you are in a waiting room bored to tears and refusing to read celebrity gossip magazines.

How long will we as a society think that holding up your phone at a concert to take a bright, blurry and compressed stage pic, or record a mono, blown out, 3 second, jerky video that takes up the last of your phone's memory doesn't make you look like a drunk and technology illiterate sucker?

On the bright side, you can always whip out your phone and show random people that you never expected to see and almost totally forgot about what your kid looks like on that sweet inch by inch pixelly screen.

If any of your camera phone pics survive through stuff like accidentally dropping your phone into the toilet, or it fumbling out of your pocket onto the concrete gym floor whilst changing into tight volleyball shorts, or not being able to be backed up because your wireless provider doesn't want you to be able to do anything without them charging you for it, I think they may be worth something. Not now, but in the future. When your grandkids are either nostalgic for crappy old imagery or wish the world's oil supply hadn't run out so they can do what the old folks did, fun stuff like charge their phones or see rock bands that not only use electricity to play songs but waste the amount of electricity Cuba used in a year to light and/or strobe their glorious faces on stage through two premeditated encores.