Fans of various spy stuff should appreciate the gadget with a long name Zippo Style Cigarette Lighter Digital Camera.
The name reflects the essence of this device. The gadget resembles a regular cigarette lighter of Zippo style, but in reality, it is a digital camera, so that when you shoot something everyone will think that you just have decided to smoke.
The camera can capture images with resolution of 640×480 or 1280×960 pixels, while depending on the resolution 64 MB built in memory can store from 30 to 104 images. There is a built-in viewfinder, you can set shutter speed in the range of 1/6-1/15000 seconds, there are several different manual and automatic shooting modes.
This gadget uses a lithium battery with a voltage of 4.2 V as the power supply, and data is transmitted to a personal computer via USB.
Dimensions of Zippo Style Cigarette Lighter Digital Camera: 5,7 x3, 8×1, 3 cm, and this camera can be yours for $45.
I’m sure many of us dreamt to be an elusive agent 007 James Bond himself/herself and test any technical device from his rich arsenal.
If your child also has such a desire, you can give him/her Spy Kite.
Spy Kite has a fixed digital camera. It provides an opportunity to get quite reasonable pictures from a height of 25 m. The photos are taken by remote control.
After the end of the surveillance, the device can be connected to your computer and pictures can be stored in its memory. The price of this spy gadget is about $60. Not so much to see your little 007 agent happy.
In the era of film cameras Polaroid cameras conquered our citizens giving the opportunity to receive instant images. Today, Polaroid decided to “take remember old times”.
It presented a new digital camera at the International CES, but with the same familiar feature: fast printing of images.
The camera is called PoGo; it can print images in a minute. Photos obtained by measuring approximately 5×7,6. As before, the new camera PoGo allows printing images with a frame, on adhesive paper. Of course, the rest of the Polaroid camera is used as a normal digital camera: you can shoot and view the screen shots, deciding whether to print them.
For such a set of functions the camera is quite compact: length 12, width – 7.6cm Weight of it is less than 300 grams.
USB drives are quite necessary devices for your computer and laptop. Sometimes there are not enough connectors to connect all the cables – a digital camera, USB-flashes, player, phone, camera, etc. Here comes help USB-hub. USB-hubs align to your computer and obediently lay on the table, waiting for a connection of a variety of devices. Joel Escalona presents you the next designer creation – Asterisco USB hub 4x, USB hub, which resembles the communist symbol of red color. The work of Joel Escalona designer is a miracle. It is a decent hub with 4 USB inputs, which are universal for the absolute majority of devices.
Today anyone can buy a compact digital microscope MC108 from Extech, which provides optical increase from 7 to 27, plus 4-times digital zoom, so the total approaching is 108.
Dimensions of the mini-microscope can be compared with the size of conventional compact digital camera. In order to display the examined objects you can use 1.8-inch diagonal display and an optical sensor device that has a resolution of 0.3 megapixels. For lights 3 embedded LEDs are used.
The gadget has a built-in 2 MB memory that helps to store up to 60 images with a resolution of 320×240 pixels, and gains its power form AAA type batteries. The price of a microscope is about 300 dollars.
It’s not a secret that in our digital age, many people often remember good old days, when waggling arrows were used instead of heartless numerals. For these people Samsung offers its new digital camera WB1000, which displays the battery time and remaining space in the memory in digital form, and with the help of analog indicators.
Otherwise, this is an ordinary 12.2-megapixel compact camera with a 3-inch display and is equipped with 24-mm wide angle lens Schneider-KREUZNACH with 5-fold zoom. Samsung WB1000 is able to record video in the H.264 format, has an image stabilization system, can shoot with ISO 3200 sensitivity (though with a resolution of 3 MP), and the size of the optical sensor is 1 / 2, 33 inches. Samsung WB1000 costs 418 dollars.
The LX Series, the eldest line of compact cameras of Panasonic, has long attracted the attention of serious photographers. Indeed, all the amenities, lightness and compactness usually end when it comes to the image quality; and the advanced digital mirror is no less and no light than its film predecessors. A photographer needs something light for a walk, only a rare device will be able to please him in terms of the results of shooting. Class hi-end in the compact segment is extremely small – perhaps technologies developed too quickly, and companies thought uneconomical to invest a high amount of development model, which would inevitably become obsolete in six months. Now, when a certain technological level is already achieved, these camcorders are beginning to appear slowly. From the undisputed applicants in this elite class is the hero of today’s test.
Let’s start with the design. Lumix DMC-LX3 impresses immediately: a stylish and compact metal case stand out from the total mass of handheld cameras and careful elegance of execution. The lens is bigger than usual and many buttons and switches are made extremely well. The device is small, but its design and layout of controls, is easy to use. Almost all of the back cover the camera is occupied by the 3-inch LCD screen, so all the buttons gathered on a small space on the right side of it, but you can quickly get used to the management.
