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#333852 - 09/06/2010 08:36 Neat keychain camera
g_attrill old hand Registered: 14/04/2002 Posts: 1172 Loc: Hants, UK	Thought this toy might be of interest - basically it's a keychain video/still camera made in China from rejected mobile phone parts, with the mobile phone firmware hacked together to make it work just as a camera. A bit flakey it seems, but the price is right - from $9 inc. shipping. I have one in the post and will report back. Big page with tech info: http://chucklohr.com/808/ Example ebay listing: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150449000246
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#333855 - 09/06/2010 12:50 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: g_attrill]
tman carpal tunnel Registered: 24/12/2001 Posts: 5528	The CPUs used are designed for usage in media players and cheap digital cameras not mobile phones. Neat but it does seem a bit hit & miss about what of many different variants you get! Some of them are good with some tweaking but others are a completely different design and bad.
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#333856 - 09/06/2010 13:15 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: g_attrill]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Neat! I thought you'd mean one of these types- http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.33605 http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.37478 They really should have a scale in the photos to get the size across. _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#333859 - 09/06/2010 14:44 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: g_attrill]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Mmmmm…. Cheap Chinese crap…. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#333860 - 09/06/2010 14:54 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: wfaulk]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	75% of the stuff I have bought from DX has been complete crap an not worked. _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#333862 - 09/06/2010 15:20 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: andy]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	Yeah, I've been very careful with my purchases there. I've been pretty lucky so far. I was actually pleased with the calipers I got. Edited by wfaulk (09/06/2010 15:34) _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#333863 - 09/06/2010 15:24 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: wfaulk]
andy carpal tunnel Registered: 10/06/1999 Posts: 5916 Loc: Wivenhoe, Essex, UK	The USB temperature sensor, USB FM tuner and a few other useless bits of rubbish ended up getting binned. I've stopped ordering from them. _________________________ Remind me to change my signature to something more interesting someday
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#333864 - 09/06/2010 15:25 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: Robotic]
peter carpal tunnel Registered: 13/07/2000 Posts: 4180 Loc: Cambridge, England	Originally Posted By: Robotic http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.33605 "Tiny pin-hole camera hidden inside a camera"? Why of course -- it's the last place they'd look! Peter
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#333865 - 09/06/2010 15:37 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: peter]
wfaulk carpal tunnel Registered: 25/12/2000 Posts: 16706 Loc: Raleigh, NC US	From the comments: Quote: Yo, dawg, I herd you like cameras so I put a camera in your camera so you can take pictures while you take pictures. Perfect. _________________________ Bitt Faulk
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#333868 - 09/06/2010 18:33 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: andy]
Robotic pooh-bah Registered: 06/04/2005 Posts: 2026 Loc: Seattle transplant	Originally Posted By: andy The USB temperature sensor, USB FM tuner and a few other useless bits of rubbish ended up getting binned. I've stopped ordering from them. I have as well. I still can't help myself from looking at what new odd widgets they get, though. _________________________ 10101311 (20GB- backup empeg) 10101466 (2x60GB, Eutronix/GreenLights Blue) (Stolen!)
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#333875 - 09/06/2010 19:38 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: andy]
andym carpal tunnel Registered: 17/01/2002 Posts: 3996 Loc: Manchester UK	Originally Posted By: andy 75% of the stuff I have bought from DX has been complete crap an not worked. Make that 100% for me.... _________________________ Cheers, Andy M
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#333876 - 09/06/2010 19:50 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: andym]
hybrid8 carpal tunnel Registered: 12/11/2001 Posts: 7738 Loc: Toronto, CANADA	YMMV, but I haven't had anything from DealExtreme not work as expected. Knock on wood I suppose. _________________________ Bruno Twisted Melon : Fine Mac OS Software
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#333880 - 09/06/2010 20:47 Re: Neat keychain camera [Re: hybrid8]
mlord carpal tunnel Registered: 29/08/2000 Posts: 14491 Loc: Canada	I'm getting about a 10% failure rate with DX stuff.
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