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With CES 2012 finally opened today, many innovative gadgets will soon spread on the internet within the following days, so have you already been ready for the CES? Let’s start with Tamaggo’s 360-imager then. It is claimed the first consumer device that can take full 360-degree panoramic images using a special “panomorph” lens, and built with an LCD viewfinder on the bottom too. The egg-shaped device can provide images with better quality, and it will shoot fully navigable images with a single click. Pity that the device cannot shoot 360-degree panoramic videos currently, and there’s still no information about its pricing or release date. That’s a pity too.

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Developed in 1932, the 8mm film was once rather popular around the world and was recorded in the history as “the world’s smallest film ever used in movie-making”. Nowadays, even though the 8mm film is no longer a trend, we can still try it with these tiny Fuuvi Bee 8mm Cameras. They’re mini-sized, with a weight of merely 39 g, but are built with a CMOS lens that can capture retro videos of 640×480 resolution or images of 1280×960 resolution. Undoubtedly they’re not the best cameras for photographers, they’re indeed the smartest ones to create retro styled videos or images.

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What’s this, a toy, a stool, or something else? For sure it is a ball. So can you imagine that the ball is actually a camera? Once thrown into the air and reaches its highest point, the camera then captures its entire surroundings simultaneously with its 36 cellphone camera sensors built around. Check out the video below to see how it works.

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Well, do these Canon Miniature System Cameras indicate that our digital cameras also function as USB flash drivers now? Or should we say USB flash drive is at last part of a camera so that we can enjoy a more convenient use? All those sound fine, because what I’m thinking now is to get one and take some new photos… Oh God, they look just so cute! [Read the rest of this entry...]

For almost a thousand times I’ve been dreaming of a smart digital camera that can be directly plugged into my computer, until I see this Fuuvi Pick Mini Digital Camera. It runs on a MicroSD card and weighs merely 24g, and therefore making it a best choice for outdoors using. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ok, here is a cat toy walking down the stair, so what do you think this cat would like to do? Obviously it’s not something merely designed for people to play with. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Develop different and unique photos with the Glider Camera and you can view your world from a new angle. It is a smart gadget that flies in the air, slides around people, and takes photos effectively. Moreover, people will seldom find it is a camera so that you can use it freely. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Featuring a small dimension of merely 2.5cm×2.5cm×2.6cm and a light weight of 12g, the Chobi Cam One is the world’s smallest and lightest SLR camera. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Something else! Resembling the cool look of DSLR cameras, these two products shown here actually cannot be used to take photos at all. But they can be used in other ways, to play music or save your coins. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Honestly the UCIM Camera is rightly something I’ve been dreaming of for years. Integrated with three USB ports for three memory sticks, the smart camera allows the users to easily have their pictures transferred and shared while no longer needing a date line or card reader. Just imagine how pleasant your journey will be with the UCIM. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Featuring a unique shape of a tube, Yaniv Berg’s Digital Reflex Camera (DSLR) will create you an entirely different experience of photography. Firstly, you needn’t have to hold the camera to your face but simply put it against your stomach during the process, since the new camera curves at the end to show you the images. Another change the camera will result in is that you photographers needn’t have to bend down awfully or even lie onto the ground to check out what you’re shooting. The last but not the least is that when you turn the camera, its interface screen then turns the image to display mode and the image will be rotated 180 degree for the observers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Digital cameras no longer merely shows what you’ve shot, they also evaluate the aesthetic qualities of your photos. Created by Andrew Kupresanin, the Nadia digital camera is a boxed up Nokia N73 that communicates with a Mac over Bluetooth and it judges your recent photos based on the ACQUINE Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine. Though Nadia is just a prototype at the present, most people are expecting that the innovative camera would help them to make a good photograph. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Frequent viewers of I New Idea must have noticed that we’re quite concerned about the new designs of cameras, and we’ve published many interesting and innovative cameras during the past. But few of them would beat the Stampy Digital Camera designed by Jinhee Kim. It works in a way like this: you take pictures, edit them on the camera, and then you stamp the photograph onto a sheet of paper. So simply put, the Stampy Digital Camera is a digital camera that also doubles as a rubber stamp. Isn’t that interesting? [Read the rest of this entry...]

Let’s start the article with a familiar situation: we go out to tour around, record the beautiful sceneries using a digital camera, click, click, click…then suddenly the camera runs out of power! That always makes us feel rather depressed. But fortunately that wouldn’t happen again, coz Weng Jie has come up with the Solar Camera Strap, a camera strap built with solar films on the surface to harvest the sunshine as energy for your device. The idea is really simple, but also practical. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How tiny could a camera be? From the picture, we noticed that the pocket camera shown here seemed even not much bigger than the adult’s thumb. Wow, that’s really incredible! But the mini size doesn’t weaken its function- the camera not only records AVI color video in a 1280 x 960 pixel resolution with a speed of 29 frames per second, but shoots photos in a 1280 x 960 pixel resolution. Plus, the thumb-sized camera still features a mini USB socket on its side, ensuring a convenient connection to PC and other appliances. If you think $51 is an acceptable price, please click the website below for more information. [Read the rest of this entry...]