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Inventor who created the first camera phone amazes crowd
Philippe Kahn, credited with inventing the camera phone in 1997, recalls wiring a phone to his camera in a Santa Cruz hospital to share Sophie’s birth. Analysts note 41 percent of U.S. households own camera phones and global sales rise toward 1 billion by 2010, fueling citizen journalism and pervasive surveillance.
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