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Wrist Watch Camera Now with Color Display
camborg writes "Casio announced (in this Japanese Press Release) a new version of the famous wrist watch camera, which goes on sale in japan on the 23rd of November. The new model features a STN 4096 color display to directly view the color images on the wrist. The watch has a bit updated look and feel. Everything else is pretty much the same as the WQV-3 series color wrist camera. No release date for the USA yet. Photos of the watch can be seen at http://www.i4u.com"
Now what's a compelling reason to own one, again?
Easier for us to take photos anywhere anytime...
Easier for us to be taken anywhere anytime too...
For example, a link from the press release, http://members.tripod.com/mcmach1/voyeur.html.
I'm not saying it's evil, but I'm quite sure there are situations that you don't want people to see =)
If you have the source, you have the whole world...
Jpeg 176x144 resolution, something about 115,200 link speed (sounds like serial to me.)
unimpressed.
until it runs a trinary non-clock based system and has 9 megapixel resolution, and oh yeah, makes coffee, then I'll pass.
But damn, it's cool...
Do NOT give this watch as a gift to any farm vetrinatrian you know. The shutter button is too easily triggered if you know what I mean.
Tristan: "Seigfreid, come take a look at this photo on my wrist watch.."
Seigfreid: "My god! Is that Mr. Crowleys cow?"
Tristan: "I'm afraid so. I nip back out there and lance that abcess right away."
Seigfried: "And while you're at it, you might want to tidy up your watch - it's a bit rancid."
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
And it dosent look like it runs linux....YET! Not to mention MacOSX. Maybe Steve Jobs should check into a similar device as the next link in the digital hub. Its the natural progression....iMac, iBook, iPod....and the new watch cam.....iCantSeeADamnThingWithThisSillyWatch.
Because the reviews historically have not been kind.
It's neat. It's a swell toy. But it's expensive and produces photos of dubious quality. Anyone who has a couple hundred dollars to waste on something like this probably knows what he's getting into, but it's a damn shame the technology isn't quite there yet.
Watches are something everyone has, and it would be neat to get to the point where digital cameras are equally ubiquitous (albeit a bit scary from privacy and surveillance perspectives). But what are the odds that a consumer line like this will catch on when its flagship example is such a poor value? Most mainstream consumer products we see today started out expensive and crappy, but many more aren't around today because of those same drawbacks.
I suppose it'll change when another big player like Sony gets into the act. Though Sony is every bit as proprietary as Casio and perhaps more so, we'd at least benefit from having different proprietary techs banging it out on the open market. And maybe if I can transfer my low-res expensive watch photos to my low-res expensive pda, I'll feel better about having already wasted my money.