Prototype ‘Air Clicker’ Takes Photos With Just Forefinger and Thumb
- Posted on November 18, 2011 at 5:30pm by
Liz Klimas
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How many times have you held your forefinger and thumb up in a camera shape and snapped an air shot to be committed only to your memory? Soon that action, with all the air in between — no point-and-shoot or cell phone camera required — could be photographing all your precious moments.
The Air Clicker is a two finger camera designed by Yeon Su Kim that is “doing it the Apple way”, according to Yanko Design. Yanko’s website states this prototype camera “strips away all the unnecessary aspects to a digital camera design“ and ”leaves us with a Bluetooth enabled camera lens and a motion-sensor shutter button mounted on two rubber bands.”
(Image: Yanko Design)
Here’s how it works:
If you want to click pictures, wear the camera band on your thumb and the shutter button on your forefinger and gesture to click a pic. To take videos, simply curve your fingers to mimic a video camera grip and shoot. The tension from the finger movement triggers the shutter button to operate.
Even though smartphone cameras have amazing picture quality now and point-and-shoot cameras are smaller than ever, SlashGear sums up how you should think about this camera nicely: “Try not to think too hard about how impossible this is at the moment, instead imagine a world with no bulk and jump around in anticipation!”
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Comments (65)
The Backwoods Engineer
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:57pmThis is just hype. Where is the battery? Running a Class I Bluetooth link and a digital camera would require at least 30 milliamps of current, at a voltage of at least 1.8V. You have to have someplace to put that battery. It doesn’t need much room, but more than is shown in this case.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:59pmthe battery will be embedded in your forearm
Report Post »redsoxboii445
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 3:50pmA battery in your forearm? No thank you. I don’t think that would sell very well.
Report Post »Protoham
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 7:48pmThey will just plant this in your head and use your eye for the camera and a blood battery for power.
Report Post »Liv
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 12:23pmWay cool!
Report Post »dumbugga
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 2:52amWhere do you put the film?
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:13amIt is sent to your phone, since the developer said doing it was doing it the “apple way”. It would be a Iphone.
Report Post »Injun Trouble
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 8:11pmDom,
Report Post »Is that you ??? Grey Iron……….. SeaRey Sam
Eyeball
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 8:56pmNext thing will by a cell phone on your fingers.
Report Post »beckinista
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:09amI want one of those StarTrek NG communicator badges….
Report Post »Carter John
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 8:13amI can‘t wait till it’s on your watch.
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:52pmCARTER JOHN
Report Post »those exist….for several hundred $
CHOW
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 2:42pmFinger phone already happened: http://gizmodo.com/229092/wearable-finger+based-cellphone-concept
Report Post »BIG JOHN.1951
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 7:50pmWere do I sign up 4 the I.P.O.? Wall street I hope. LOOK I MADE A JOKE.
Report Post »Steelman2
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 6:14pmDirections, caution remove device before scratching ass.
Report Post »StepUpSpeakOut
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 11:46amThat is hilarious!
Report Post »Hollywood
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 1:07pmI can think of even a worse time to have one on, and it involves a bathroom! YIKES!
Report Post »jaxson
Posted on November 20, 2011 at 2:07ami would sit it down and never be able to find it again.
Report Post »Donald727
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:51pmWhat’s the world going to like in a thousand years?
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on November 21, 2011 at 1:56pmlook back a 1000yrs and if we are lucky, extrapolate the difference multiply by ten and presto!
Report Post »MAGIC
ObserverOnTheHill
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:47pmhave you not been paying attention – it’s all over 12/21/2012
Report Post »chips1
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:23pmSounds as though yours is as bent as Clintons.
Report Post »GodsDotr
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 3:37pmAll privacy will be lost forever. If it can shoot stills, it will be able to eventually shoot video.
Report Post »seldomscene
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 4:07pmShould get some interesting nudist camp shots!
Report Post »mach37
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 1:24pmIt DOES shoot video. Read the article.
Report Post »Starkadder
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:38pmI’ll fortel the future…..
Report Post »A perv is going to place it on and learn to use it with his toes for the ultimate stealth upskirt cam.
Wanna bet?
ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:47pmNever trust a man wearing sandals…… except for the big guy and his son. :)
Report Post »South Philly Boy
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 11:27amWhat will they think of next
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 10:10amThis reminds me of the Kids in the Hall… “I’m pinching your head!”
Report Post »AlaskaismyEden
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:32pmThat’s “I’m pinching your face“ and ”I’m crushing your head.” Kids in the Hall ruled!
Report Post »Ialmostforgot
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 9:11amThis is the problem with high unemployment.
Report Post »Too many people with too much time on their hands dreaming up silly ways to take a picture so they can post it on youtube!
texaspapa1953
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:51pmMaybe, but with innovation like this, he won’t be unemployed long…
Report Post »This is a really good idea; whether or not some idiots figure out a way to misuse it.
Wyatt's Torch
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:27amGreat….so now you can really look like a mental patient as you seemingly talk to no one (while using your tiny hidden bluetooth earbud) and “pretend” to take pictures and videos with your hand. This is great, we will blend right in with the crack-heads walking down the street.
Report Post »taxx
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 6:30amPretty soone a pointed finger with a thumb twitch will actually shoot a bullet.
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:32amHehe, saw the gesture in use by a stage hypnotist. He explained before picking some subjects (all girls for some reason) that he has a hypnotic power in his fingers, actually stressed it out. Worked like a charm…of course ladies did not end up dead, just limp.
Report Post »gr29az
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:16amcan’t wait!
Report Post »Favored93
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:45amOh I don’t know this seems like a cool advancement to me…my car can be used for evil stuff and the teck. is a hundred years old….IF YOU ARE WICKED IT IS WICKED ECT. ECT……
Report Post »RestoreCapitalism
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 2:36amSo if you made a fist and punched a communist protester, it would probably take a picture of your smile while you did it.
Report Post »The Noodle Fish
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:50amputting aside the fact that yeah, this is incredible, and yeah, the future is now,
Report Post »I foresee only one problem with this.. the resolution can’t be that good.. but, as technology does, I’m sure it will improve. Give it a couple years, and this might be the future of citizen journalism.
CygnusX1
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 1:29am….
No Thanks, I’ll Continue to use all my Canon Gear!
…
Report Post »Wyatt's Torch
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 8:29amKeep your Canon, I want a cannon
Report Post »jcannon98188
Posted on November 26, 2011 at 5:11pm@Wyatts
Did I hear my name? :)
Report Post »Gumbercules
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:43amHello locker rooms, here I come!
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:11amNano camera mounted on a contact lens with a blink-to-shoot function, squint to zoom/change contrast, etc.
Report Post »smokey888x2
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:08pmI‘m wait’n for the air-guitar
Report Post »scarebear83
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:06amYou and me both lol
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 7:21amUnfortunately, too late! I already learned to play the real one.
Report Post »TRUK62
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:05pmIt’s already here… google it.
Report Post »BubbaCoop
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:00pmViewfinder?
Report Post »SLEUTH
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:08pmviewfinder….what you see is what you get.
Report Post »MastrSSG
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 9:04pmWow talk about the insane possibility of invasion of privacy! Not to mention the various criminal uses for this technology
Report Post »The_Postal
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:07pmAnd the potential good uses of it in investigations.
Report Post »SLEUTH
Posted on November 18, 2011 at 10:10pmMASTRSSG, you are right on
Report Post »MastrSSG
Posted on November 19, 2011 at 12:37am@Postal
Report Post »Please…What investigation needs that kind of camera? I can see some Intel uses for it, but the opportunity for abuse seems much greater than the innocent practical uses. As cool as it seems,
not all technology is good technology.