Ready, Aim, Fire!
Now here’s something that could come in really handy for those of you who are intelligent enough not to want to throw away large amounts of invest money on fancy underwater photography kit, and yet still feel the need to express yourself artistically while submerged, or just want to be the geek-chic-est diver in the water.
The new Underwater Digital Camera Mask from Liquid Image is a simple, yet ingenious, concept — marry a digital camera with a scuba mask and “Bob’s your uncle.” (For you non-British-English speakers, look the phrase up in Wikipedia.) (For those of you who don’t understand the expression and also don’t know what Wikipedia is…never mind.)
Sporting a 5MP capability (3.1MP at low resolution setting), the unique mask is rated to 30 metres, powered by two AAA batteries, and comes equipped with 16MB of built-in memory, with the ability to add a Micro SD card for additional storage capacity. The mask also shoots video at 18-25 fps VGA quality and provides plug-and-play interface with your computer via USB cable.
We haven’t tried one of these out yet, but the description in the press release says you line up the target subject in the crosshairs on the mask and snap away (Basically, you look directly at what you want to take photograph/video of). An LCD display and LED lights inside the mask light up to let you know stuff (How cool is that?).
Of course, there’s a catch (C’mon, you know there’s always a catch). The photographic distance is set at 1.2 metres (That’s five feet for the metrically challenged), so you gotta get pretty close to whatever you’re interested in.
The makers of this unique gadget say they’ll be announcing more neat new toys this year, so what we really want to know is when they’ll offer optional mini-torpedoes so the crosshairs take on an entirely new meaning.
