In the era of networked images, Sarah Pohflepp's Buttons offers a new twist. When you find a moment that you would like to record you simply push the big red button on what is otherwise a lens-less camera body. This 
stores the temporal information from your “image” so that when you are home the camera can do a global search for images by others at that exact moment.
As she says: “Photos help us to remember moments in our past. Often they even become a memory in their own right. For many, making their moments public through services like Flickr is already part the process of photography itself, creating archives which contain a vast collection of visual fragments of individual lives.
Buttons takes on this notion of the camera as a networked object. It is a camera that will capture a moment at the press of a button. However, unlike a conventional analog or digital camera, this one doesn't have any optical parts. It allows you to capture your moment but in doing so, it effectively seperates it from the subject. Instead, as you will memorize the moment, the camera memorizes only the time and starts to continuously search on the net for other photos that have been taken in the very same moment.”
It's away of using the notion of networked images to catch the decisive moment...of everyone else. [Link]
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