While this is slightly off-topic for this blog, I've been following Muoptics effort at Indiegogo to collect funds for an affordable IR camera project. As far as I know, this is the first attempt to crowdsource a camera company. So far, the project has been able to collect a little over $6.5K in a week since it has started. Looks too slow to reach their $200K target till March 10th. Below is Vimeo video describing the idea:
PR.com: CTO, Charles McGrath states that, "we can get the retail price of the Mμ Thermal Imager down to $325 initially and with enough orders from the big box retailer we think we may even cut that price considerably. Another goal is to double the resolution within a year."
I'd count the DBolex guys. They have the Bolex name behind them, but it's basically just that, theirs is a new thing.
ReplyDeleteAnd it created lots of waves too!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joedp/the-digital-bolex-the-1st-affordable-digital-cinem
Speaking of crowdsourcing, have you checked out Memoto? A tiny wearable camera that takes a picture every 30 seconds with geotagging. They call it lifelogging and I like it :-)
ReplyDeletehttp://memoto.com/