German Engineering Grad Invents Throwable Camera Ball
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A German engineering grad and his team have built what they call a "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera." The prototype is designed to be tossed in the air and automatically take panoramic pictures.
For a recent Berlin Technical University graduate, a flair for photography and a knack for engineering have combined to create what he's calling the world's first "throwable panoramic ball camera."
Jonas Pfeil, a computer engineer, has designed the camera to be thrown in the air. Then, as it reaches the highest point of its flight, the camera takes a panoramic picture.
Pfeil says the idea came to him while on a vacation.
[Jonas Pfeil, Head of Camera Ball Development Team]:
"I was hiking in Tonga which is an island in the South Pacific. And I took a lot of pictures the conventional way, panoramic ones that is, with a single camera, taking pictures all around you and then stitching them together on the PC later. And the process of taking these images just takes a long time. And when I came back from one of the mountains there on Tonga I had the idea to just throw something up and and capture the panoramic view instantaneously."
The camera ball has 36 mobile phone cameras mounted inside a spherical enclosure. It also has an accelerometer that triggers the cameras as the ball stays still for a split second at the highest point of flight.
Pfeil says there's a lot of interest in the camera ball, but adds that it still needs to be refined.
[Jonas Pfeil, Head of Camera Ball Development Team]:
"This is just a prototype at the moment but we are working on making it smaller, and also improving the image quality."
Pfeil says the camera ball is a fun way to take pictures and would one day like to see his camera innovation made available to consumers.
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A German engineering grad and his team have built what they call a "Throwable Panoramic Ball Camera." The prototype is designed to be tossed in the air and automatically take panoramic pictures.
For a recent Berlin Technical University graduate, a flair for photography and a knack for engineering have combined to create what he's calling the world's first "throwable panoramic ball camera."
Jonas Pfeil, a computer engineer, has designed the camera to be thrown in the air. Then, as it reaches the highest point of its flight, the camera takes a panoramic picture.
Pfeil says the idea came to him while on a vacation.
[Jonas Pfeil, Head of Camera Ball Development Team]:
"I was hiking in Tonga which is an island in the South Pacific. And I took a lot of pictures the conventional way, panoramic ones that is, with a single camera, taking pictures all around you and then stitching them together on the PC later. And the process of taking these images just takes a long time. And when I came back from one of the mountains there on Tonga I had the idea to just throw something up and and capture the panoramic view instantaneously."
The camera ball has 36 mobile phone cameras mounted inside a spherical enclosure. It also has an accelerometer that triggers the cameras as the ball stays still for a split second at the highest point of flight.
Pfeil says there's a lot of interest in the camera ball, but adds that it still needs to be refined.
[Jonas Pfeil, Head of Camera Ball Development Team]:
"This is just a prototype at the moment but we are working on making it smaller, and also improving the image quality."
Pfeil says the camera ball is a fun way to take pictures and would one day like to see his camera innovation made available to consumers.