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Sat, Mar 8, 2008
I have been looking into wearable cameras that include a loop feature. The idea is that the camera records video and sound and caches 5 or 10 minutes in storage. If anything you see is worth recording, you hit a button and start capturing audio and video including the 5 or 10 minutes you cached.
I found the POV.1 from VIO. They specialize in helmet cams, but their product includes the loop function and comes with a wireless remote to tag recorded items for later viewing.
Pretty slick. I haven’t used the product, but am temped to buy one and post a review. If it sucks, I would resell it on eBay (at $700 it’s not cheap). Let me know if you you would be interested in reading a review or if you have experience with the camera and can give some feedback.
Tags: Consumer Electronics, helmet cams, Video, Wearable Cameras
March 8th, 2008 at 10:49 pm
hey! thanks for the review. are there any more products like this?
March 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am
There are a bunch of helmet cam products, but none of them seem specifically targeted to recording your life. They are all focused on extreme sports recording. There is a company here in Seattle called VIEVU that is working on a wearable camera that looks a bit like a pager. No loop function on that one as far as I know. I will try to post some information about the VIEVU device later today.
March 9th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hey mike. I’m looking more for something i can attach to my shades for surveillance purposes.
March 10th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Most of the stuff I have been looking at is too big to not be noticable. If you search wearable camera on eBay you should turn up some interesting stuff. They have some cameras that are intended to be covert, but I don’t think the quality would be good enough to record your life.
March 10th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
yup, i dont want it to be covert, i just want it to be relatively convenient. thanks brother, appreciate it
November 11th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
It would be tough to justify that price tag just to try it out. I will admit that the caching is a really sweet idea though.
December 8th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
This is a really cool piece of technology. I would love to have one of these helment cams. Perhaps someone will get me one for Christmass
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December 8th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
This would work a lot better than strapping my video camera to my motorcycle.
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January 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm
The kit is great. One great thing about this camera, it enables affordable filming while coming in a small pack. The discrimation is the memory is only up to 2GBs. Thanks for the great review BTW.