Misumi lays claim to "world's smallest camera"

It may have some competition for the title, but Taiwan's Misumi seems willing to take its chances and has gone out and claimed that its new MO-R803 camera is, in fact, the world's smallest. While that distinction seems unlikely to stick for long, the camera is certainly tiny, measuring just 4.4 mm in diameter and 15 mm in length, with a bendable "snake" attached to it to keep you from losing it. Of course, you'll have to make do with a 320x240 resolution, but you will get your choice of standard or wide-angle lenses. No word on what it costs, but those willing to order 'em in bulk can apparently get in touch with Misumi for a quote.

[MarkZ @ Aug 21st 2007 1:34PM]

Whoever said the upskirt video market doesn't drive innovation?

[Xzavier @ Aug 21st 2007 1:54PM]

Gross!

And then another discusting though came to mind... I wonder what his keyboard looks like... *YUCK*

[Dave @ Aug 21st 2007 2:03PM]

There is no way that camera is the worlds smallest. The camera on my iMac is certainly that 4.4mm or smaller.


APPLE RULES

[Matt @ Aug 21st 2007 2:35PM]

Hey douchebag, just because the lens is small on your iMac, doesn't make it a small camera. The sensor on your iMac is probably 1/4" or 1/3", whereas this one is 1/8" of an inch, not to mention the size of the supporting circuitry behind the bezel.

[Billy Fiul @ Aug 21st 2007 3:49PM]

PWNED!!

[Lucas Couvreur @ Aug 21st 2007 2:04PM]

No High Def? :=(

[paul petty @ Aug 21st 2007 2:06PM]

I wonder where they intend that camera to go...

[chris @ Aug 21st 2007 2:22PM]

have a little imagination, cut a hole in the front of your shoe, stick the camera pointing vertically and attach to your archos 400gb portable media player, - *watch live upskirt from in the lift while the girl your spying on doesnt have a clue*

just a thought, but anyone who does this is sick +o(

[chris @ Aug 21st 2007 2:23PM]

woops meant to reply to Blaine :D

Chris

[Blaine Oliver @ Aug 21st 2007 2:07PM]

If your gonna upskirt, you need midgits....

And eww. I do love how good this will be for the intergrated webcam market for tft monitors.

[Bobo @ Aug 21st 2007 2:26PM]

Dateline is salivating right now...

[kirby @ Aug 21st 2007 4:16PM]

I think it's going to be exploring no man land, e.g. the place where the sun don't shine.


Wonder when the first lawsuit be when a doctor leaves it inside a patient..

[Mike Klein @ Aug 21st 2007 4:31PM]

This kind of cam will be useful for video conferencing...you can bend the cam so the sensor is in the middle of your LCD.

Then you will have most-closely simulated face-to-face conversation. Having webcam off to side doesn't give caller "best" view while chatting with you.

[dan @ Aug 21st 2007 4:36PM]

Camera this small at the end of a long flexible wire.... this is always a recipe for very unplesant things.

Either someone is peeking at me under the door before crashing through the door to bust me meth lab, or someone is sticking this up my ass, and talking about how I need to start eating salads and veggie burgers.

Bad times, man, bad times.

[Major Malfunction @ Aug 21st 2007 4:52PM]

Amazingly, it is 1 / 18th of an inch, not 1/8th.

[Jaroslav @ Aug 21st 2007 5:02PM]

Umm... My urologist has a smaller camera than that.

[wavesguy @ Aug 21st 2007 10:50PM]

Take home colonoscopy kit. It's about time.