This past weekend, we vacationed in Walt Disney World. One of the more fascinating aspects of the trip was how Disney photographers utilized Sony UPC (ultraportable computers) attached to their digital cameras. When I bumped into Rick (a Disney employee), I noticed that he didn’t have a Sony on his belt attached to his digital camera. Instead, I saw that Rick’s camera was attached to a PocketPC built by Symbol.

I asked Rick and about this and he mentioned that the Disney employees have only been using these rigs for about a month. I figured that Lance had the better setup with the Sony UPC, but Rick disagreed. He indicated that the Sony stored images on the hard drive, but the Symbol PocketPC had software that automatically sent the digital images to the Disney server via WiFi IMMEDIATELY!

Rick showed me how this worked by taking a picture of my son Tyler. We watched the camera and PocketPC to see the number of pictures taken & stored increase by one and then immediately decrease by one. Rick told me that our picture was all ready for viewing on the internet, in fact! The way that Disney associates the pictures with an account is interesting as well.

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