Cool....i bet you could cut out somebody you no longer want in a pic? lol

So it has to record the picture before it takes it so it knows whats behind the person or object?

Looks like it basicly takes a short video, then takes the picture. It then seems to compare the video to the picture, any moving objects can then be edited out and substituted using the prerecorded video frame portions that do not contain the object. Can be done using multiframes in photoshop, but this is way way faster :)

This is a terrific development. I have lots of pictures of \'other people\' that were not supposed to be in the frame.
Obviously smart phones can never replace the camera for professional use.
BUT unless the camera people can come up with something similar, for the rest of us mere mortals who take \'snapshots\', this could spell the end of the camera.
Camera manufacturers take note.

This has been available (without the selection feature) on the Fuji HS10 for over a year! And you have to hold the camera very still or the background won\'t be the same in each of the succession of shots. The camera/phone moves in the demonstration video meaning it probably wouldn\'t work

The Eiffel Tower sample shown cannot be taken with the app, because, as the article says, it removes wandering people that are in different places in consecutive shots, not the people that are, as shown in the sample, laying down and taking the sun or sitting on benches feeding pigeons...

Removing other people!? Sure that\'s ok when they stand in front of a great sculpture, but do we really prefer deserted landscapes to inhabited ones? This is a cultural difference between warm and cold cultures. In warm cultures (and this is not about the climate) people are our reason to go out. In some cultures, people have historically lived in tough climates; too cold, too dry, and unlike in tropical and subtropical climates food was scarce. Maybe that\'s why the \"others\" are seen as a nuisance, competitors maybe? Nice app anyways.

This is quite funny, because I have asked a gentleman called matt from a company called SYFI in the UK in 2003-2004 if they could make a piece of software that could remove all moving objects in a video,. LOL

Picture technology is such now that no picture should be taken as evidence in a court of law, on television or other media, as it cannot be believed. Photoshopped pictures are everywhere now, so we have effectively removed any semblance of reality. This can be quite important internationally for \"evidence\" to start wars or justify attacks. Because not only can people and moving things be removed, they can be added, or other things can be inserted. Good technology will defy anyone proving it not to be true. We also can do this with recordings and testimonies, confessions, etc. with tampering with recordings. We can make things appear now any way we want. God help us.

Aren\'t we already disconnected from each other quite enough? Do we really need to remove everyone from our photographs? Joseph Stalin would\'ve loved this! It would seem our desire to be the ultimate center of our own universe forever marches on. A useless and counterproductive app.