Art Lebedev introduces 'Fleximus' camera concept
By Donald Melanson 
posted December 22nd 2009 2:43PM
posted December 22nd 2009 2:43PM
Well, it looks like Art Lebedev has more than the rather ingenious Transparentius concept in store for us today -- it's also introduced this so-called Fleximus concept for a flexible digital camera. Not exactly anything new there, per se, but Art Lebedev seems to be pitching this one specifically to photographers, not just folks that want to peek in hard-to-see places. To that end, the Fleximus comes equipped with a proper viewfinder on one end of camera, which can also be detached and replaced with a 3-inch LCD module (check it out after the break). Of course, this is still just a concept so there's nothing in the way of specs, but you can get an exhaustive look at the design process at the link below.
Perform endoscopy on your drunk friends!
@One Love ROFL.... that is the thing i thought ... a rise in clandestine endoscopies and colonoscopies... S:
@TikiTeko LED not included...
That's an awesome picture.
@mattman6 I proper thought that was Russell Howard.
pre-order only for $4 999 , planned release date January 2015
Anybody else seeing this in the news sometime soon after it's launched? Something about voyeurism and a Republican Senator...
@somewhiteguy
Never be left unsatisfied with your pants down and your foot in an awkward position. Check first with the new Fleximus. Yes, we take tax dollars.
Art Lebedev - creating cr@p and marketing it at outrageous prices, so outrageous that even Steve Jobs questions why anyone would pay for overpriced garbage with a shiny coat of paint.
@fatslug
Agree, he's a self-centric idiot who thinks that he's a genius.
@alex904
Just like our president and most college professors.
@fatslug, alex904, kjb434
The collective intelligence void created by this thread of comments is threatening to collapse in on itself to form an intelligence black hole.
@fatslug brilliant post
@kjb434 Apparently the truth hurts... down-ranked for an obvious truth.
@kjb434 crawl back under your rock, neo-con roach.
Cool I can wrap this around my leg and get a nice closeup of my penis entering my gf's vagina without having a creppy fat bearded guy in the room to hold the camera! Awesome!
@(Unverified)
Wouldn't that make sex just that much more uncomfortable...?
dude don't put me out of a job, bro
@(Unverified) Brah I shaved, alright?
@(Unverified) Then how are you going to perform the reach-around?
@(Unverified)
The world would be a much better place if we were all equal opportunity employers. Alas, this is not to be, and you deserve creepy bearded men intruding your coitus.
@(Unverified) Santa shoots your pr0n?
@(Unverified) "Dude, if you don't shave, I'm going to replace you with a very small, leg-mounted camera."
I'm almost angry at Gorbachev for introducing this kind of bourgeoisie pretension to Russia.
@Ethan
You mean, how dare he does it..while Bill has been busy with some other russian?
This thing could've helped Bluto Blutarsky hide NEXT to the window, and saved him from a nasty ladder fall.
@conscious who the F is Bluto Blutarsky?
@HighestRanked
1: It's called Google. Use it.
2: Bluto Blutarsky is the John Belushi's character in Animal House -- a movie which you should watch, love, and memorize to the point where #1 is no longer applicable.
@conscious
Who's Bluto Blutarski??? Kids nowadays. They should get off their Wii computers and stop the email texting with their fancy fax machines and watch a great film once in a while...
Sam Fisher approves.
"Hello, is that Advertisement Models Inc?"
"Yes, Becky speaking."
"Ah, hi there Becky, It's David here. I was wondering if you had any work offers yet? Things have been a bit thin on the ground recently. But I'm keeping my hopes up!"
"Well, we don't have much....Ah - this might suit you - our client needs a handsome young male, to model a new type of digital camera."
"Wow! Lifestyle electronic products are always great gigs! Do you think it will help with my image for me to get future contracts, you know, make me look rugged and cool,?"
"You betcha!"
@TC
Brilliant!
Looks like all that dude needs is a mirror!
@glamajamma
...all this moron needs is to look back.
Art Lebedev has the bad habit of releasing a ton of concepts but never the actual products. I mean, sure those are nice to look at but c'mon? We want the real thing.
@atheos
Do we? Do we really want what's sure to be an overpriced camera on a bendable stick and a truck with a projection screen on its trailer door?
I know I don't.
@atheos
That is not just concept.
That's idea that was graphically illustrated and described.
If anyone produce such product in real - they can be sued by Lebedev for copying his ideas.
I think he can even have a patents for any of them...
@atheos
There are plenty of real things like that:
http://www.gizmo-central.com/tool-gizmos/personal-snake-cam-lets-you-peek-in-small-places/
Shove an iPod dock into it and it will be perfect!
@Borgh
the tube is too small...unless you meant a "nano dock" :-)
Wow!
This isn't very lebedevy, I mean the japanese already did this 20 times, where's the lebedev original twist?
I guess the original twist is that this focuses normally rather than macroscopically, but that's not that impressive a twist I must say, but maybe I'm missing something.
It's a cute gadget though, ripe for thinkgeek and megagadgets and such sites.
And more for the paranoid and spies than for the other uses suggested here.
Is that Russell Howard?!
Does it have a touch screen and function as an ereader too?
Point it at a book and you instantly have an e-reader.
And like his other, equally pointless, equally stupidly-named "see-through truck" idea, this would likely cost a small fortune for no good reason.
"Hey look! It's a picture of me holding a giant sperm to my eyeball."
Art Lebedev -- When a graphics art degree gone wrong mixes with the ideology that money grows on trees.
Lot of envy here, palpable.
I want to look inside me with this thing - from down there if you know what i mean.
This thing at last give a freedom for every man on the planet - to avoid humiliating diagnostics at proctologists.
With it you can search cancer in your ass by yourself without hands of other man.