A finalist in the BraunPrize2007, Franziska Faoro's Triops is a camera equipped with three fisheye lenses designed to take photos at moments you may not expect. It reacts to motion and movement -- so if you throw it in the air, or yell at it, it'll take a snap -- but it also has a manual mode in case you want full control. The idea of Triops is to meld the experience of taking a photo with the photo itself: the end pictures are all 360 degree panoramas, so you'll have to chuck it pretty far to be out of frame. It looks like it's a concept for now, although Franziska has thought to include designs for a dock, viewing screen, and even a simple UI on the device for controlling aspects of the shots. Hopefully this'll make it into production soon.
posted Sep 17th 2007 7:45AM
First! Wow. Idint know these existed!
sweet, i'll finally get a 360 degree view of the inside of my dogs mouth
now I can go hunt for ghosts with these...am tired of the blurry shadows that show up...
That's effing rad! I want one.
It looks a little clumsy to hold....I might drop it near the door of the girls locker room....or in a department store during a lingerie sale.
Very neat, even if it looks like one of those models in the doctors office you play with and then break right before they walk in the door....
Oooh! It reacts to motion AND movement! Amazing....
I think they meant motion in front of the lens and movement of the camera itself...like an accelerometer or something. On a side note: to get out of frame wouldnt you just have to hold it above your head?
Toss it in the air at an outside concert and see what you get.
Add it a parachute and you can get shots from 30 feet above the ground. Could be fun...
How do i get myself one of these beuty's?????????