Thread: How about a camera built into your googles....

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/02/l...-ahead-of-ces/

Liquid Image has just announced new camera-equipped ski masks, swimming goggles and scuba masks, just in time for them to be unveiled at CES 2010. The Summit Series Snow Camera Goggle 335 boasts a 5MP still camera capable of shooting D1 720 x 480 resolution video at 30 frames per second with audio. It's got 16MB of built-in flash memory, expandable to 16GB via its microSD / SDHC slot. Other features include large buttons on the side of the goggles which are easy to press while wearing gloves and and a light inside the goggles which indicates when recording. The goggles are estimated to get about 2,200 still images or over 2 hours of video per charge on their lithium ion battery. Liquid Image expects to ship the Summit Series goggles in the summer of 2010, with a price of $149. Full press release is after the break

Sounds pretty cool. I wonder how wide the lens will be.

$149 bucks???

IF it had nice images, I would pay twice that to not have to go out looking like I was strapped into the matrix.

A camera built into my Google? Fuck, Google already owns 10% of me.

hopefully they are smart and are using a GRR or GS cmos imager. if not the footy will look like garbage anyways with a rolling shutter. there are also plenty of imagers that run 60fps @ 720p these days, so i am not too thrilled by the upfront stats that they are listing for the camera. especially with a release date of summer '10, the camera will be even more antiquated by then.

Their website says they are using CMOS.

http://www.liquidimageco.com/product...335/index.html

Yeah its just 480p, which is disappointing. The VholdR guys are on top of their game, I wouldn't be surprised if we saw a collaboration between them and Smith (they have Smith I/O's on their packaging). At this point its got to have 1080p and 720p60fps for me to even consider it.

They announced a 1080 HD version... Not a big fan of their styling though.

Their Scuba Series is a little... out there.

Not sure why they chose to do the nose shroud on the ski series... maybe they are all gingers?

Originally Posted by Imz

Not sure why they chose to do the nose shroud on the ski series... maybe they are all gingers?

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huh? THis is what they have there.. no nose piece.

I've been waiting for a design like this to come along, in 09 a company was testing a design like this in motocross goggles, pretty sure they we're called Cyclops Cameras. There idea was to sell you a lens with the camera mounted in it to fit existing goggles you already own.

there design had the battery an sd card mounted the goggle strap.