Wired has this. It’s from Rob Galbraith’s site. And, darn it, we’re not going to miss out on talking about it, either. It seems there’ll be some software coming out next month that’ll let you Windows shooters using Canon’s software for tethered shooting to work it by imitating Star Trek captains. No, really. It uses WIndows voice recognition system built-into Windows, and then it uses that to operate the Canon software. The catch? You have to preface all commands with “Computer.” I mean, check out the video:

One of the people here in the office asked us why this’d be useful. Well, other than the ‘awesome’ factor of telling your camera what to do in the most literal way to date, how about the following:

You’re in your studio, your professional studio lighting glaring away like an artifical sun (assuming artificial suns have modeling lamps, that is). Your EOS is on your camera tripod (perhaps one of those Bogen Manfrotto tripods). You’ve got it pointed where you need it, but you’re not sure where you want your lights pointed and your model is getting impatient. Then, in a burse of inspiration, you run your video out to a TV so you can monitor shots in real time and you run over to your lights. You move one and shout for the computer to fire, which it does. You check. Too dark. You tell it to change your aperture and fire again. Perfect. Instant feedback with hands-free operation? Put me down for that.