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Canon is crowdfunding a tiny clippable camera that connects to your phone
Canon is turning to Indiegogo to crowdfund the Ivy Rec, a tiny outdoor camera built into a keychain carabiner. It's about the size of a USB flash drive, and it wirelessly connects via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth to the companion CanonMini Cam App to show a live preview on your phone. The empty square space of the clip doubles as a viewfinder, and there's a single dial on the back that lets you switch between modes.
The Ivy Rec has a 13-megapixel 1/3-inch CMOS sensor that can record 1080p / 60 fps video, and it's waterproof up to 30 minutes for depths of up to three feet. With no pricing information yet, it's hard to say if it'll be worth the buy or who it's really for. Canon says the camera is shockproof and great for the outdoors, so it could be useful if you clip it onto your backpack while you ride a bike. Or maybe clip it onto your dog or cat's collar so you can see the world from your pet's POV? (I mean, GoPros are already a thing.)
Too vibrant, not small enough to work as a spy camera.
Also at Engadget.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by MostCynical on Wednesday July 03 2019, @09:49PM (1 child)
so this is just like market research, but without the strangers sitting in some short-term leased office space with a weird facilitator
"They said they liked it, why won't they give us money?"
Beomes
"Give us money"
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Wednesday July 03 2019, @09:54PM
Interest free loan, locked in customer base with no feasible recourse if project fails.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @10:40PM (6 children)
Sweet, finally I can get a camera for my SMARTPHONE!
Oh wait ...
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @10:52PM (3 children)
Clip it to the ID badge you have to wear around your neck at work. Records all interactions with co-workers all day, so you can't falsely be accused of sexual assault, or speaking "badthink".
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @11:19PM (1 child)
Unless you do, then it's time to open an investigation into yourself.
(Score: 1) by shrewdsheep on Thursday July 04 2019, @08:34AM
Otherwise known as a moment of reflection.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @10:44PM
Clip to shirt front while walking around the place to record interactions. Muggings, rape, religious nuts, antisocial behaviour, assault, car crashes whatever stuff happens that having a record of would be useful.
How many criminals will think twice when they believe there is a good chance their crime will be recorded.
Enable auto upload of the last 5 minutes if phone sync is lost - for when the phone is stollen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @12:42AM
Has it got stereo in/out audio ports? Timelapse. Digic9+?
I get really MAD at Canon when the low end sh!t gets better toys than the pro kit, which delays updates, and delays updates.
Been with Canon for over 15 years, but I think the horse is dead. New 6Dii scores much lower than the original 6D on DPR.
But then everyone is hanging on and waiting for Sony to also break their own updates coma with an A7Riv or something.
(Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Thursday July 04 2019, @07:07AM
What I want is a stereo line in/mic jack for my phone that will record high quality sound - like using my recording Walkman in the 1980's, except with decent quality.
For recording audio books, voice-overs, etc.
An 8-line input box that can be controlled from my tablet or laptop to give a full live virtual mixing console with optional recording. For use at presentations,
band rehearsals, etc. Thinks 17" touch screen makes decent "virtual" mixing desk with no creaky analogue bits to go wrong (might need Guinness-proof screens
for real recording studios).
Basically all A2D in the box, and then remote control over USB or Ethernet (wifi ac might even be fast enough). With the right protocols, three boxes could be
plugged in for 24 channel operation.
I proposed something like this 20 years ago, but the comms were not fast enough then.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Rupert Pupnick on Wednesday July 03 2019, @10:40PM (2 children)
TFA says:
“DPReview cites a previous interview to speculate why Canon is going the crowdfunding route for its latest camera, in which the company revealed that it’s looking to capture as many new customers as it can, particularly casual photographers.“
How does crowdfunding capture new customers? Why not just fund the product internally, make it something that people want to buy, and then sell it?
The supposition is that people will want it more because it’s crowdfunded? Is it FOMO? I don’t get it.
(Score: 4, Informative) by NotSanguine on Wednesday July 03 2019, @10:53PM (1 child)
It's called external "budget" for R&D.
1. Get some
suckerscustomers to front cash to develop a new product;2. Develop the product and see how things go;
3a. If it goes over big, move to bulk manufacturing;
3b. If it's a flop, produce just enough to fulfill the
suckerscustomers who paid for it;4a. Sell millions of the new product. Profit!
4b. Deliver the product to those who paid;
5b. Move on, after all it didn't cost us anything to develop, and now we have a list of
suckerspotential customers -- so profit!Note that there are no '????' anywhere.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @11:52PM
6. It skirts around the real use that these can be clipped onto a shoe for the perverts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @10:55PM
1. "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals and you know it."
2. "I guess I'm going to have to buy the White Album (or in this case, a new camera) again.
Life lessons from Hollywood. Who knew?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 03 2019, @11:05PM
Didn't Tom Hanks do this movie [imdb.com] already?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 04 2019, @01:14AM
Corporation with loads of capital shall not tap funds meant for cash strapped startups with good ideas.
Both players must skip next turn.
(Score: 2) by Username on Thursday July 04 2019, @07:23AM (1 child)
Seems a good product for bodycams for police, teachers, well anyone that would want to prove they didn't beat down the black kid. It doesn't say storage capacity, which would be the greatest limiting feature for this product. I have a feeling that might mean it will only stream to your phone for storage. That might make it an excellent product for the Andy Ngos out there, where they beat you down and steal your camera but not your phone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 05 2019, @01:11AM
Heh you must be new here. Storage goes to the cloud, either directly, via your devices, or piggybacked via other devices or any available network. It then gets sold to various data consumers to profile you, your family and the family dog and its chums.
This is awesome though, the different types of selfies I can create with this...