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: 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...