Saturday, November 16, 2013

360 degrees by 360 degrees

Spiegel: The panoramic ball camera. [You know you want one.]

Forget pressing a shutter button. With the Panono, you can take a picture simply by throwing it up in the air. Fitted with 36 cameras, it contains a device that measures the launch acceleration to calculate when it is at its highest point and barely moving. At that point, all 36 cameras are triggered and a panoramic image captured from every possible angle -- including of the photographer, who will most likely be pictured with arms outstretched, waiting to catch the camera when it falls back down.

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