Monday, December 24, 2007

My Prediction:


Everyone will have one of these within the next few years.

It's a credit card-sized video camera with 30 minutes of film time and runs on 2 AA batteries. The best part: it can easily plug into a computer's USB port with a quick flip that is so simple it's silly.

YouTube should prepare to get an influx of new content like this, this, this, this, and of course, this.

First introduced to me by Mike Lear when he gave us a tour of the Martin Agency, Mike told us that everyone in the creative department was given one as an impromptu gift. I guess agencies that have Walmart as a client can afford to do stuff like that.

One of my roommates immediately went out and, $119.99 later, came home with one. He loves it and takes it everywhere he goes. While I would love nothing more than to easily make absurdly random, hilarious, and maybe even insightful videos, I lack his early adopter persona. However, I do plan to buy one eventually.

After all, like everything else, it will soon be made smaller. Cooler. Better.

Cheaper.

Most likely the one he got for $120 will soon come with a phone, still camera, internet, email, GPS, music, photos, widgets, voice recorder, fax machine, flashlight, tire gauge, wood-chopper, BAC detector, microwave, and water purifier for $79.99 by this summer.

If for some reason you can't wait until then, check them out here.

For lack of a more succinct yet impactful word, they're straight badass.

dubs. out.

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