Kodak Slice - Sub-compact Camera Gets Super-sized Brain

Kodak's Slice is going where more cameras should, smarter. The onslaught of 'yet another compact digital camera' has finally slowed, maybe due to the economy and maybe due to the lack of public interest in a-few-more-megapixels. Still doling out 14MP in a tiny package and a huge 16:9 3.5" touchscreen LCD, this sub-compact's claim to fame is its picture sorting and prepping features. Anyone who has been using a digital camera for a while knows that the storage and sorting of images by person, event or location. A few years and a few gigabytes later, your collection is so big that you can't manage it.

The Kodak Slice features facial recognition to tag photos with the names of your subjects. Program in the faces of your friends one time, and every picture you take from then on gets tagged with their names. Kodak better makes this face tagging compatible with iPhoto '09 too. There's also an easy to reach Share button to tag and upload pictures to popular social media sites like Facebook, KodakGallery, Flickr and YouTube or immediately sent by email. The Kodak Slice impressively packs enough memory to store 5000 HD images, which should translate to about 2GB on-board. Like most other compacts, the Slice can handle 720p HD recording. MSRP is set at a hefty $349, and we should see the Slice commercially available in April.