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Mini Gumstick Camcorder Teardown (mindtribe.com)
27 points by donmcc on April 11, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



I want something like this, but with the ability to record 8 to 16 hours video (lower quality is fine), and GPS. So if you wore it around your neck during vacation, for example, you could later view your movement on a map, and you could review video from a particular time or location. Anyone know if something remotely close to this exists? (On a related note, anyone know how one would get their photos with GPS EXIF data to display on a map? Do you need special software for this??)


If it supports SDHC you could put in a 32GB card for ~16 hours of recording. Displaying images on a map based on GPS EXIF is a trivial thing and there are many tools (and of course data-hungry online services) for this. Such cheap "spy camera" with GPS is something I have not heard of yet though.


$14, eh. I've always wanted to make a video of a video camera falling off the Sears Tower.

Now I just need to get it up there somehow.


Add some fins to stabilize the fall, you don't want a video of tumbling.


You want a ~3ft length of streamer, not fins (which are fickle).


Actually, I do kind of want the video of tumbling.

For $28, we can try both :)


It seems like these cameras have the lens on the "long" side which of course is hell for aerodynamics. If anyone finds a camera like this with the lens at the top (smallest side) please link.




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