Comments on: Miniature wearable Bluetooth camcorder

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 23:25:00 +0000

Wife beaters beware? Social changer? Smaller higher resolutions coming soon? Rough cops on notice?

By: Mark Lyon

Mark Lyon — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 16:02:00 +0000

The LX2 model isn’t much more expensive and is less obtrusive. I use it when walking in NYC around protests, etc. The continuous loop of video is quite helpful – you just record everything and then go back and pull out important clips.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055QYIY8/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B0055QYIY8&linkCode=as2&tag=marlyo-20

By: feetleet

feetleet — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:19:00 +0000

In Soviet Russia, camera wears you.

By: jhavatar

jhavatar — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 05:27:00 +0000

just look at it

By: Wordguy

Wordguy — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 03:35:00 +0000

I saw a demo of the new models at the Looxcie booth at gdgtLive in Boston last week. The features are pretty slick, but it’s definitely not HD quality. It should be fine for video conferencing or making tutorial videos.

By: Forrest O.

Forrest O. — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:42:00 +0000

I wonder if it can be hacked to automatically bookmark the buffer based on heartrate.

By: oodja

oodja — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:23:00 +0000

Just in case anyone’s keeping score, we’ve caught up to Star Trek again: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Unnamed_Humans_(23rd_century)?file=Head-mounted-video-camera.jpg

By: Melted Crayons

Melted Crayons — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 01:00:00 +0000

“It was fun until I walked into a McDonald’s in France…”

By: joe blough

joe blough — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:33:00 +0000

problem was (and is) there is not enough bandwidth on bluetooth to stream the preview unless the resolution was low. the video records to an internal SD card but you’d never be able to frame your shot if it were higher res. and as it stands the preview is choppy leading people to think that the recorded video is going to be choppy as well.

yeah, it’s not the best.

By: The Tim

The Tim — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:05:00 +0000

“Video Capture H.264 – 320 x 480″

No wonder it’s so cheap. Ick.

By: joe blough

joe blough — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:02:00 +0000

the LX2 comes with all that stuff, the LX1 does not.

By: joe blough

joe blough — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:01:00 +0000

the design cue was the P&W JT8D jet engine, as found on 727s

By: joe blough

joe blough — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0000

the LX1′s earpiece rotates 180 degrees so you can wear it on either ear. i’ve worn one on both ears simultaneously.

By: Bashtarle

Bashtarle — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 23:04:00 +0000

Ok I think I would wear that thing everywhere and record everything at all times…. ok almost everything sans the obvious

Also in before things like this catch on (people making laws finally realize things like this exist) and are promptly banned almost everywhere. Should make for some interesting quick post youtube arrest vids tho.

Officer “Give me that camera”
Passer by “Sure but its already on Youtube”

By: Matthew Toney

Matthew Toney — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 22:30:00 +0000

It actually comes with several attachments, including one for attaching it to the brim of a ballcap. (which works nicely – very little chance of it falling off with that one)

By: libelle

libelle — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:39:00 +0000

I was at a training class where one of the students wore one. He said it helped a great deal if he got distracted taking notes, he could come back and revisit that part of the lecture. I’m not sure how much better it would be than a purely audio recording, unless you get enough resolution to see what the lecturer is writing.

By: starfish and coffee

starfish and coffee — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:38:00 +0000

If it could handle UK weather without extra casing it might be worth the price. Anyone?

By: CCinBmore

CCinBmore — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:14:00 +0000

Seems like a nice solution for surreptitious recording – looks like a slightly oversized Bluetooth headset yet…

O’Keefe and his minions will love it. (If this comes back to bite someone in the ass, I never suggested it. Agreed?)

By: Art

Art — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:13:00 +0000

Kind of dopey looking, no?

By: semiotix

semiotix — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:12:00 +0000

Especially clever for semi-surreptitious recordings of the mild-to-severely antisocial sort, since seeing someone with a bluetooth phone headset is a very strong social cue to LOOK AWAY FROM THIS SCHMUCK AND DO NOT MAKE EYE CONTACT.

Which is kind of funny, since it’s a perfectly legit technology and the days of people screaming into space while giving the world the thousand-yard-stare have mostly passed. But I still have to actively force myself not to pointedly look away from someone wearing one. And I suspect that reaction will be exploited by some of the early adopters.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:02:00 +0000

First we had the Russian dash cams, now its Russian ear cam.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:53:00 +0000

I saw this a while ago, and was disappointed that there wasn’t a model for the opposite ear (I have single-sided hearing loss). It looks like there’s one now, the LX2, which at least according to the pictures on the Amazon page looks as if it works with either ear, but some of the reviews leave me wondering about general build quality. Shame, as it does look as if it would be a decent alternative to helmet-mounted cameras while cycling.

By: Funk Daddy

Funk Daddy — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:37:00 +0000

Now. We will be nice to one another, else internet.

And here all along I’ve been told if we all carried firearms we would be nice to one another.

By: eyebeam

eyebeam — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:36:00 +0000

Looks cool, until it falls off your ear.