Ball-shaped camcorder

Leonard Goh | Aug 04, 2008

Another day, another ball-shaped device to talk about. But this time, it is not a digital still camera. Rather, it's a camcorder that is smaller than a ping-pong ball.

The DVR CamBall hails from Korea, and house within the tiny physique are all the necessary components for capturing 320 x 240- or 640 x 480-pixel video clips. It has an SD memory slot to expand the capacity up to 8GB. All in all, it is a fully functional digital camcorder minus the LCD screen for framing or playback.

It doesn't help that we don't understand Hangul (the Korean's writing system) and the page doesn't have any text coding so we were not able to use a translation software. Therefore, we cannot decipher the specifications listed on its Web site. But from the pictures, it seems there is a four-way directional pad with LED indicators around it to display what mode it is in. From the contents in the package, it appears that this videocam is powered by a cell rechargeable via USB.

Starting from US$185, the DVR CamBall is available only on its site for now.

Via Technabob

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