Meet Paragraphica, a camera created by Bjørn Karmann that has no lens, no sensor, in fact, it has no imaging tech at all.
The term “Captures Photos” with the Paragraphica might be a bit of a stretch, because it doesn’t really capture anything.
It uses your time of day, the weather, along with a few other parameters to run an Image to Image AI model & generate a new, whimsical photograph from scratch.
The camera functions by gathering information from its surroundings through open APIs. It takes into account the location, weather, time of day & nearby landmarks.
Using a text-to-image AI, the camera then transforms the paragraph into a “photo”. However, this is not just any ordinary snapshot. The resulting image is a complex & how the AI model perceives it.
The designer Karmann decided to create a unique red star-shaped dish on the front. The detail draws inspiration from the star-nosed mole & relying on a tentacle-like nose to feel & forage around rather than eyes to see.