Is it a wrist watch? Is it a video camera?
When you see how many devices are launched on market on a daily basis, how impressive they are and the revolutionary technologies they are based on, you can easily understand how much the humanity has evolved during the past decades. It’s amazing, you must agree, the fact that imagination has no boundaries whatsoever and this is the perfect premise for the world to change.
Imagine, for example, that you can use a device that is usually designed for specific purposes to do lots of other things that you would have never imagined and that you would have considered incompatible with the device in the first place.
You have a wrist watch. What is it supposed to do? Telling time, maybe? Isn’t this the reason they’re designed by all sorts of manufacturers? Ok, timepieces might be incredible pieces of jewelry also, but come on, they have to keep you connected with the time aspect. Everything else besides that is just a bonus, if I may say so.
Anyway, the point is that Thanko, a Tokyo-based company, has just announced an analog wrist watch that is equipped with an integrated video camera. You read it right, a video camera. These devices have become so small in the last years, that they can be incorporated in almost anything that a person would like. And the Video Camera Analog Watch is the proof that multifunctional devices are must haves these days. I’m not sure why someone would like to own such a device, but those who consider that keeping a close eye on their dearest ones is very important, they will surely appreciate this wrist watch.
It is able to record up to 2 hours of video using a mini camera that has its lens placed somewhere between 1 and 2 o’clock. Having a resolution of 352 x 288, the camera can be used to record up to 4GB of video material and the best thing about it is that it also records sounds. If you want to transfer the video on your PC, you can do this via USB.
Nevertheless, the device can also be used like a common watch. If you want to purchase it, you can do this for approximately $140. The bad thing is that it seems that this spy camera is available for now just in Japan.
(Source: Dvice)
