Sometimes a “gadget” doesn’t have to have flashing lights or take batteries. Sometimes it can just be a neat, useful accessory. Which is the category Camera Armour falls into.

SLR Cameras are delicate pieces of equipment, but they have to operate in some pretty unforgiving environments. Even the relatively sheltered environment of a show such as this one has it’s perils - a camera swinging from your shoulder can easily bang against any of the stands as you walk around. It makes you a little paranoid…

So what do you do? You encase the camera in a thick rubber case that absorbs knocks and scrapes but leaves the controls accessible. It works too, the armour means you can bang the camera around but there’s no loss of usability.

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They don’t call it a limpet, they call it a “Viscoelastic Gravity Defying Tripod”. But it is a limpet nonetheless. Press it firmly down onto just about anything, attach a point and shoot camera and you’re good to go. You can even stick it to a ceiling if you want. Neat! More information from omegasatter.com

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Extreme sports fans rejoyce, no longer do you have to duct tape a video camera to your helmet and hope for the best. GoProCamera are showing their Digital Hero mode. It’s a 3MP digital camera that attaches securely to the wrist with velcro straps and takes stills or video with sound at 30fps. It’s also waterproof to 100 feet and it’s on sale for $139.

Granted you could get a ruggedised camera from the likes of Pentax or Olympus, but you’d pay a lot more and you’d still have to get the duct tape out to attach it somewhere!

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Are you into bird watching? Or maybe you like to snap pictures of topless celebrities at the beach? Regardless of your intentions, with the Pro Viewer BinoCam, you’ll always take a crystal-clear shot no matter how far away you are from the action.

The Pro Viewer BinoCam is pair of binoculars and a digital camera all rolled into one. It features an 8X non-digital zoom with a 2.1 mega pixel camera capable of taking 1600 x 1200 pixel photos. After you snap the perfect picture, you can review it instantly with the BinoCam’s built-in 1.5-inch full-color LCD screen. The BinoCam can also record 30 second AVI video clips.

Not interested in stalking celebrities? Of course, you can also take the BinoCam to the beach and watch the surfers ride the perfect wave. Prove to your friends you spotted whales on that last boat trip, or even assist the police by snapping Mel Gibson’s license plate as he gets wasted and drives around California blaming the Jews for everything.

The Pro Viewer BinoCam combines powerful binoculars, a high-resolution camera and a camcorder all in one. It’s all you need to catch the action… from a safe distance.

Specs:

• Image Sensor: 2.1 mega pixels
• Resolution: 1600 x 1200 (H); 640 x 480 (L)
• Interface: USB 1.1
• OS Support: Windows 98/98SE/2000/ME/XP
• Measures: 6 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 1.3 pounds

Features:

• SD Card Slot
• Magnification: 8X non-digital zoom
• Objective lens diameter: 32mm
• Focus Range: 18 meters to infinity
• Auto exposure
• 1.5″ TFT Color LCD
• Note: Requires 4 AAA alkaline batteries (not included)

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On top of the other seven digital frames we already mentioned there is a new one that really grabbed my attention, just like a fireman grabs a person when he/she is about to fall off a building – both situations are similar and have the same feeling.

Anyway, enough with gibberish talk and moving on to the digital frame of the day – the PictureBook Digital Photo Album:

All the other digi frames we previously talked about had one similar feature which is the lack of big storage capacity, therefore consumers could only put like 60 or 80 photos on a frame, sometimes less. The scenario changes when using the PictureBook, since it is suppose to work as an album it has a hard-drive with 40GB, can you imagine the number of photos you can insert in it? I can’t, but the producers/designers (read Brookstone) talk about storing over 20,000 photos.
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I bet some people already got tired of reading about digital frames after the third time it was mentioned, we are now talking about the 7th digi frame counting with the small keychains too. Lets recapitulate what we have so far:

• Parrot Photo Viewer
• NuVue Digital Photo Frame
• Wi-Fi Gmail / Flickr Enabled Picture Frame – clearly the best one, why aren’t there more frames with Wi-Fi and a connection to Flickr so you can have different photos for each day of the year?
• YAT Digital Picture Frame
• Digital Photo Keychain
• Picture Keyring – the black sheep of small digi frames

Now, onto our device of the day - the Ality Pixxa LCD Photo Frame. Read the rest of this entry »

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Remember the previous Digital Binocular Camera we talked about? Well, that one only had 2.0 mega pixels which can be considered pretty low for the actual standards, this one has more MPs and improved features overall. The name also stands out (when comparing to the poor DB3200), it is called Pro Viewer BinoCam, I must admit that the “Pro” part on the beginning makes all the difference, right?

This 3-in-1 device can be used as:

• a binocular to view animals at the Kruger Park
• a digital camera to take photos of the Kruger lions, crocodiles, and so on
• a recording digital camera to take AVI video clips that catch the lions on the act, just like you see it on the Discovery Channel

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You know you’ve always wanted to tag each and every picture you have in a seamless way with the gps location of wherever you took it. Well now you can, in a fairly seamless way.

Today Trimble Navigation rolled out their new collaboration with Fotonation and Nikon Cameras to bring you a way to do just that.
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