17Feb/11Off
Bigshot DIY Camera For Kids Finally Coming To Market (Soon)
This week at Toy Fair we caught sight of a booth filled with Bigshot cameras. These DIY digital point and shoots — developed by Shree Nayar and a talented team of students and faculty at Columbia University’s Computer Vision Laboratory — have been around for a couple of years, but not yet available on the market.
Though the camera is basic, it’s capable of a variety of shots. The lens wheel on the front has three different modes: Normal, Panoramic, and Stereoscopic for taking 3D photos. Images are saved to the camera’s on-board flash memory. Kids then transfer them to a computer and can use the Bigshot software to process the images. Once processed, the 3D images can be viewed with old-school red/blue 3D glasses.
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