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"Designed with ease-of-use in mind, the new Intelligent Touch System is a game changer for overall printer usability. Consumers will find it easier and quicker than ever to navigate through menus and perform everyday tasks with back-lit touch sensitive buttons and a new light guidance system eliminating buttons not in use thus reducing opportunities for mistakes."

You can tell that it is approaching Back-to-School time when you start seeing companies announcing more new products than the number of broken-promises a politican makes during an election year. Canon's latest line of PIXMA printers include some of the newer features like Full HD Movie printing, but new to the line is an adaptive touch sensitive control panel. Touch controls are hardly new, but the Intelligent Touch System, as Canon has labelled it, actually changes depending on what options are available. Instead of all buttons being visible, and guessing which ones are appropriate, the active buttons light up to let you know they can be used. A neat system which will certainly help those who are less tech savvy.

"Now when using the new Full HD Movie Print with compatible HD Canon EOS and PowerShot Digital cameras, consumers can print individual frames of movies1 while helping to bring those hard to capture, memorable moments to life. Whether using still or movie capabilities, users can be confident the memories being preserved will be of high quality both from the time the memory is captured to when it is time to share with friends and family by providing a keepsake photo."

With video recording coming in higher and higher resolutions, it is not surprising that someone has come up with the idea that instead of doing things the traditional way or snapping a single photo and then printing it, one can review the frames of an HD video and select what one they want to print. It might even reach a point where people will be much more into "lifecasting" and record everything they do, just in case they catch a moment that they want to preserve. There is already a proliferation of people snapping photos or videos are every opportunity so I do not think that it would be that much of a stretch to just do it 24/7. Of course, this also means those embarassing moments that you were lucky to get away with because no one had a camera on hand will be forever immortalized! Now if they could find a way to make "enhance" really enhance!