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Check out this camera. It’s a little bit out of the ordinary, but it’s definitely going to change how we think about photography. Named Autographer, the device is a wearable, hands-free digital camera equipped with a wide-angle lens and well, a brain of sorts, as the camera itself decides when it wants to take a picture enabling users to ‘see the unseen’.
Not only does it look pretty cute for a little device, Autographer can capture thousands of photographs a day through a custom wide-angle lens. It’s also equipped with five on-board sensors and GPS capability to identify when the perfect time is to take a photo, based on changes is light and colour, motion, direction and temperature. Developers and creators OMG Life gives a few examples; Autographer might capture an image when the wearer speeds up as they run for the bus, moves from a warm pub to a snowy street, or turns around to greet a friend. None of these instances could be instantly captured from that perspective via a traditional camera.
According to OMG Life, all the wearer has to do is put it on and go, then check out what was taken at the end of the day and see their ‘unseen’ moments unfold through a series of natural, unpredictable images and stop-frame videos. Almost like a personal voyeur, Autographer will be there, engaging and taking snapshots of your life. So there will be real photos of you heading to the bar, dancing with your friends, chatting to that girl or guy, and your mates pointing and laughing at you as you are passed out in the cab home.
The only hard part to swallow with this fascinating device is the price tag. Autographer will cost £399 when it launches in November, but with all the development, technology, love and care that has gone into the device, the price does seem fair. Also to take into consideration is that there is no flash on the device, so nights out in the club might be a little hard to document, unfortunately. Regardless, the device sounds absolutely darling and delightful, and I would love to get my hands on it to document my rather mundane life.
Autographer will be available to purchase online in November via Autographer.com
Autographer
- 5 on board smart sensors + GPS (ambient light / accelerometer / magnetometer / PIR / temperature)
- Bluetooth
- 136º field of view
- All glass wide angle precision optics
- Fixed focus
- 5MPx low light sensor
- Dedicated smartphone app – view, tag and share the images.
- Weight: 58g
- Width 37.4mm (with side buttons)
- Length 90mm; 95.5mm (with lanyard ring)
- Thickness 22.93mm (with clip and lens)
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Oh dear God. What utter crap.
Ignoring the fact that still photography will be a thing of the past in the near future, who in their right minds has the time to trawl through thousands of images a day? Most of which will highlight the utter banality of our everyday lives.
Tens of thousands of images a week? What on earth were they smoking? And all at awkward angles. Not interesting angles, awkward and unattractive angles.
I surprised the iPhone doesn’t have an app that does this already and you could just hang it around the neck. Then they could use their obvious outdated technology that takes those ancient still photos to upload them to iCloud and quickly fill that 5gb.
Sounds like you just found a use for the iPod Touch’s lanyard.
Oh dear, I see another company getting sued, you’ll find Apple will have a patent on this already.
Like the idea, don’t like the price. Reckon i’d be willing to pay £100 tops for a device like this that shows me how and when I got home after a drunken night.
At all my most recent Alcohol-Fuelled Nights, there have been plenty of other people around to take pictures of me, which thanks to the magic of
G+ Party Mode I get to see as soon as they upload.
You’re worse than a door-to-door salesman.
52 members in the circle now Kat. I remember a sweet,kind attractive Tech blog editor saying she would consider G+ more seriously if we had more than 50 members.
Darell, no offence mate as you are a great chap to have in the comments section but aren’t you happily committed to a lady? You flirt with Kat all the time and it comes across as a bit creepy.
I do NOT flirt with Kat and neither does she flirt with me. This is a long running thing that has been going on since the .com days. The only reason I refer to Kat as “sweet,kind & attractive” is because I’m trying to butter her up. Not that she isn’t any of those things, but I’m not some crazy stalker and she knows this. Neither of our relationships is at risk, but thanks for caring.
Would you also like to buy a vacuum cleaner?
No and no, thankyou.
Boo!! What are the plans for the next meet up Kat? Are we going to have a Dec 7 Reunion/anniversary party??
Very well, then we shall have to resort to guerilla actions.
This will include eating soft fruits and picking weevils of each other. Along with a lot of chest thumping and sitting on David Attenborough.
It could have been worse baboon actions can get very messy.
Only because he can find us when we’re not at home!
And now I think Darrell is talking to himself…
What’s to say he isn’t?
I quite like this idea but how the fudge do you attach it to yourself? Also, it’s extortionate.
Just read on their website you can wear it around your neck or it has a clip on the back (www.autographer.com). Loving the idea of the random photos you’ll end up with but surely it can be used more creatively than just alcohol fuel nights?!
Surely it’ll end up flipping round and you’ll end up with a few hundred photos of your chest.
Mildly amusing but seems like you could do most of this with an app on a smartphone. (Hang it round your neck with a lanyard).