Written on August 13, 2008 – 6:08 am | by Bogdan Alex |
One cool thing I want to try as soon as possible is go scuba diving around a coral reef and take lots of pictures and even record the entire experience. I could use a waterproof camera, but I really want to have my hands free. Looks like I’m in luck this time as the Japanese have just released an underwater digital camera mask.

Coming from Liquid Image, the scuba diving mask is waterproof down to 5 meters, and allows you to take pictures with an integrated camera that only requires one hand to operate. The camera sits somewhere in your forehead region and when you want to take pictures, you just have to push the button in the left side of the mask. If only they made it with a remote control or something.

The internal is not a mere VGA camera. It offers 3 megapixels, an LCD screen, 16MB of internal memory (with a microSD card slot to expand it up to 2GB) and even a VGA video mode. No word on zooming, I guess it’s only digital.

According to Pocket-Lint, the mask is already available in Japan for about $100, but it’s not sure whether it gets commercialized worldwide or not. One more thing to make us go to Japan.