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Digital Camera Wristwatch
MikeyMars writes "Casio has released a new watch that, aside from telling time, can take 80 full color pictures. " The watch itself only displays in grey, but the camera takes color pictures. Its not like its doing 2 mega pixels or anything, but its still pretty nifty.
Nope that was the WQV-1 wrist camera. It was larger, stored 100 monochrome images. The resolution is about the same on both ~ 25K pixels, and the screens are both 4-bit grayscale.
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EdgeReview did an article on this watch, (it has a nice picture on it, too), here: http://www.edgereview.com/ataglance.cfm?category=i maging&ID=246
The metal-banded WQV3D-8 costs $269, while its companion costs $249.
Is this thing waterproof? Can it take pictures underwater? (I doubt that one).
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Another fun watch is the linux watch:
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Once individual estimated you couldn't take 80 pictures before the battery died. Casio estimates 6 months before it'll die. Here the full press release with a spec sheet.
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http://www.casio.com/corporate/pressroom.cfm?act=
I managed to overcome the massive slashdotting of Casio.com and find a technical specs page.
Highlights:
174x144 pixels
1M of builtin memory
~80 images with JPEG compression
IR image transfer to comp
Basic Watch Functions
6-month battery if used only as a watch
"Batter life is shortened by using imaging functions and data communication functions"
Auto-Power Save when not being worn.
If you clicked the link to the press release, you'd see that the battery life is estimated at 6 months! I assume it doesn't take as much power as you'd think if they've made it all solid state.
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On the contrary, the battery life is very good. I have the previous version of this watch that only takes B&W pics (and at a lower resolution, but it holds 100 pics, not 80... ha!). However, the new watch has the same B&W LCD screen (16 level grayscale, no backlight) as the old one. You only get color pics when you download them off the watch. Anyway, I have had my watch for months and have probably taken well over 2000 pics and the original battery is still going strong. The watch is pretty cool, too. The pics are really too small to be real useful, but it sure is fun to have. :-)
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The casio wristwatch camera sure has a nice profile, but does not do well for taking pictures to view on a monitor.
Here's a tiny Sony prototype that has 640x480 resolution...
I take pics with the watch, I then beam them to my Palm and they are downloaded to my computer when I hotsync.