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Olympus’ new durable and waterproof cams: SW 1030 and SW 850

Olympus has got two durable and waterproof guys for its popular Stylus line. The two new models are the Stylus 1030 SW and the Stylus 850 SW. The SW in their product names means shockproof and waterproof. Olympus has got couple of waterproof cams in the past such as the 790 SW, 770 SW, and 720 SW, which all belong to the same Stylus line.

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Super high-res cam: Seitz 160 Megapixel handheld camera!

Look at the digital camera in the picture, lifted by the guy with two hands. Looks pretty heavy right? Yes, it has to be heavy in order to give you a super huge resolution in megapixels. The camera is capable of 160 megapixels in a 60mm x 170mm. Which is equivalent to 7,500 pixels vertically and 21,250 pixels horizontally.

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Sony green gadgets: The Twirl N’ Take camera

A new member, the Sony Twirl N’ Take concept camera, has joined the ODO line. If your memory isn’t as bad as mine, you should remember that the green gadgets, ODO, which Sony was talking about a couple of months back, which consists of gadgets that use spinning or dragging motion to generate power for them. The Twirl N’ Take concept camera here also needs you to give it a spin of its wheel for about 15 seconds and the device will gain enough juice to power its way through a single photograph. The camera is installed in the handle. Take a closer look, you’ll notice a tiny little camera hole. And you need to connect this green cam to your computer for viewing your snaps as it doesn’t have any display on it. So, you wanna have green power? Then you’ll have to tolerate its primitive nature!

via [Engadget]

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NEC wireless camera powered by magnetic induction of fluorescent light

The new wireless camera developed by NEC can be powered by a fluorescent light. Having it attached close to a fluorescent light, you just need to connect a ring-shaped component to the fluorescent light to take power from the bulb. Its way of taking power from the bulb is by means of electromagnetic induction generated by the AC source (45-100kHz) in the fluorescent light. It’s kind of convenient for super stores or offices, which you need no additional power for this camera, as long as you keep the fluorescent lights on your ceiling on.

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VholdR wearable cam one-click uploads video to YouTube

The VholdR wearable camera is specially designed for novice. All it takes is only a click to upload the recorded video to YouTube which you don’t have to deal with the hazzle of converting the video. The VholdR is capable of recording in 640 x 480 resolution at 30fps. The VholdR comes with quite a rugged body that can survive through the test of drop and abuse. The contribution of the ruggedness are the anodized aluminum exterior and the lack of a lot of moving parts and controls.

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Sony Ericsson Cybershot SO905iCS, the cool cybershot phone, but for Japan only!

Sony Ericsson seems to be releasing a camera phone that has almost all the features found in lower end digital cameras. This phone is built around the Sony’s Cybershot camera, which its code name is Sony Ericsson Cybershot SO905iCS. The cybershot phone comes with pretty amazing features, especially tailor made for shooting pictures, including 5.1 megapixel, 3 x optical zoom lens with 4.5 to 13.5 mm focal length, variable aperture F2.8~5.4 and focusing distance of 3-30cm. The camera is also capable of 16x digital zoom, multi-point focus with 5 mode auto-focus, high speed and digital imaging Anti-Shake function.

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Digital Camera doubles up as a calculator

I’m not too sure in what situations that you need both a digital camera and calculator for your work. Perhaps, some field surveyors or engineers will find it handy if a digital camera can also work as a calculator. So, they could make use of it to take those snap shots and also compute those complex calculation for their field work.

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Tip for digital camera: Higher number of megapixels can achieve larger print size of image

Perhaps, you’ve been comparing among your friends that the number of megapixels that your digital cameras are capable of. But, do you know what all these megapixels mean in layman term for the digital cameras? How do you relate them to the picture quality? Perhaps, in your mind you only know, the higher the number of pixels, the better the image quality.

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Plain-looking exit sign comes with hidden camera!

This is something you won’t notice at all. It’s just an “exit” sign which looks so plain that you wouldn’t expect there were some sophistications hidden inside. Hidden inside the “exit” sign are a universal AC only camera and a high power 2.4 GHz transmitter. The combination of these two on this plain-looking exit sign is simply cool, which you can have it fixed at common places such as the exit of a shopping complex, car park etc. And the images captured by the camera can be transmitted by the transmitter wirelessly up to 2,500 feet away.

As mentioned, it’s especially good for commercial places. But if your boss decides to stick one on the door of your office room, then you could be in a big trouble that your boss is pretty interested in every single moment of you in the office. Anyway, with extra stuff loaded in it, it’s definitely much more expensive than any “exit” sign that you know. It costs $431.99. So, would you consider to buy one and stick it in your room and deceive your significant other that it’s just for the sake of decoration?

Buy online, $431.99, Stunster

via [coOleStGadGetS]

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Estes Digital Video Rocket lets you shoot video in the sky

Isn’t it pretty exciting to fly a rocket toy? What if a rocket comes with a video camera that lets you take video along the journey? It’s really so much fun that you can imagine having the Digital Video Rocket, a rocket that has a built-in video camera that lets you capture video of 640×480 resolution for a maximum of 12 seconds. If video is not your cup of tea, you can also have the camera to take pictures for you along the journey.

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