Mail order company Hammacher Schlemmer has unveiled the world's smallest fully functional camera. The digital device, which is no larger than a human fingertip, carries on the retailers reputation for offering the best, the only, and the unexpected.
The tiny camera measures just over one inch in all dimensions and weighs only half an ounce. Even though these measurements are minute, Hammacher Schlemmer claims that the human finger can easily snap a picture with a touch of the shutter button.
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The camera features an automatic focus, a 2MP image sensor which captures JPEG photographs at 1600 x 1200 resolution and even AVI video at 30 frames-per-second with 540 x 480 resolution. The minuscule snapper's internal memory is a 2GB micro SD card.
Photos can be displayed on a computer via USB connection, which will also charge the battery for an hour, making the camera operational for 30 minutes.
“Although The World's Smallest Camera is only slightly larger than a marble, it takes still images and records video just like much larger cameras," said Fred Burns, General Manager, Hammacher Schlemmer. “The World's Smallest Camera comes with a wrist lanyard that keeps it close at hand and enables ease of portability.”
The camera is available for $99.95, although it is probably more of a novelty gift rather than the solution to a budding photographers space saving needs.
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