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    Default [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    Well, hopefully the title has gotten your inquisitive side.








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    Name- High definition Ultra-Mini camera/video/recorder Ball Point Pen.

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    Price- Ģ16.00

    Intro- I acquired it as a gift from someone who works in the security firm who went to a convention which unveiled various products like these.

    Product Specs-
    -Video Format: AVI
    -Video Encoding: M-jpeg
    -Video Resolution: 640*480 VGA
    -Video Frame Rate: 30FPS 1fps
    -Picture Format: JPG
    -Picture Pixel: 0.8 MP
    -Picture Ratio: 4:3
    -Battery type: High Capacity Polymer Li-ion Battery
    -Charge Voltage: DC-5V
    -USB type: USB standard port
    -Internal Memory: 4GB
    -Recording Mode: Continuous recording until memory is full or low power suplly or manually off

    Pros-
    - Light weight
    - Extremely portable
    - Working pen
    - Crystal clear sound quality
    - Easy to use
    - A product like this in the year 2013, with some advancement and changes it will be smaller and provide much better built in technology over the next few years. So it can only get better.

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    Cons-
    - Poor image quality
    - Clumsy way of changing from video mode to image mode. (You need to open up the pen and then toggle the switch behind the USB stick.)
    - Obvious holes which are the camera, mic and receiver light.
    - Feels big in your hand

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    How has it aided my day-to-day life-
    Well I'm no 007 secret service if that's what your expecting, however I just use it as a novelty item, something to mess around with friends, funny mug shots etc.

    Conclusion-
    What do I really think about it?
    Well I love the fact that they are playing around in these areas, fitting a USB stick, camera, video capability's, singular recording and also work as a pen is pretty impressive to have all this fit into a nice looking pen. Also the fact they are trying to implement these and being able to make it work effectively well.

    It's an eye opener into small technology and the fact that everything is going nano but still retaining the same effective result. For example, the capability's of a camera, but into a pen. Yes it does have it's draw backs like the quality of the image, yet like I said it can only get better.

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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    Would you like to enter this in the ROTM?

    Please let me know, but I'll leave the submission thread open until this evening so hopefully you'll get the chance to enter.
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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    sure i'll enter it in, what harm could it do...

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    Great. You can enter over here.
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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    I am sorry, but I cant help but thinking this is an aprilīs fool joke. Maybe I'm a little paranoid. (no offense Dictator, its an excellent review, there goes my rep)
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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    Last edited by The Roman Republic; April 01, 2013 at 12:25 PM.

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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    Quote Originally Posted by Dictator Of The Roman Republic View Post
    no joke I can assure you, what parts make it seem like a April fools joke?
    of course, I am sorry (To me it sounded too much like James Bond in the 80īs)

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    Default Re: [Tech Products] Ultra-Mini Camera Ball point Pen

    Quote Originally Posted by mishkin View Post
    of course, I am sorry (To me it sounded too much like James Bond in the 80īs)
    aha, no problem. I can see where the doubt comes from. It does seem to good to be true.

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