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Via Engadget comes this link to industrial designer Johan Frossen's website, which features a concept project he came up with for SonyEricsson: a wearable video camera that wraps around your neck for hands-free recording. He documents the process he went through in conceptualizing, designing and prototyping the device; a familiar thing for me because of my time with the designers at IDEO but the process should be very interesting for those of you who haven't been exposed to how industrial design works.
The camera uses a fixed-focus fish-eye lens so it captures a very wide angle image, eliminating the need for having to tweak zoom and focus while you're recording. It also eliminates the need for an LCD monitor for the camera operator to see what they're recording. Obviously this isn't suitable for every situatino where you'd want to shoot video, but for those times when you just want to get a visual record of something going on, but can't sacrifice your own two hands to run the camera, this is a great idea.
Unfortunately, it's not an actual product yet, but it's very easy to imagine this being a popular product should SonyEricsson ever decide to manufacture it.
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