« on: October 01, 2007, 08:38:50 PM »
Just when you thought that was a pack of gum someone was carrying...
Many camcorders have been billed as the world's smallest, but only one has been small enough to hide inside a pack of gum. The Red Ferret Journal says the Micro Camcorder is the smallest high-resolution, real time digital camcorder ever produced. The camera can record up to 33 hours of video at 15 frames per second via its internal pinhole camera. Hide it inside a pack of gum, and no one will never know you're secretly recording them.
According to its web site, the camstick includes a tiny Micro SD card that can hold 1GB of video and will record video for up to two hours on a single charge. Anything you record will be in 3GP format, which can be played on any PC using programs like RealPlayer or Quicktime. Judging by a video taken with the Micro Camcorder, the quality appears to be pretty decent for Web use. You can easily find other pocketcams marketed to the YouTube generation like the Aiptek DV 4500, Flip Video, and RCA EZ101 for under $200, but they all seem gigantic in comparison. Anyone with intentions to take voyeuristic shots won't mind paying the relatively low price of $195 for a novelty spy gadget.
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/19402
