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Blast from the past
Much as digital is dominating the photo industry, film shooters are making a comeback with quirky designs. The Ikimono camera designed by Superheadz is petite enough to be used as a keychain or, snap with it if you manage to find the dying 110 format cartridge.
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Swim and snap
Underwater cameras are aplenty but some of them are clunky and a hassle to deal with underwater. It doesn't help that the view through your mask may not be clear and the shots don't turn out the way they should. The Swim Mask has a built-in snapper and gives a literal meaning to "what you see is what you get".
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Tube shot
Future dSLRs could look like this if designer Manuel Perez Prada has it his way. Instead of a chunky body and occasional cumbersome lens, his idea is a sleek tube-like contraception. Our only worry is that it may roll off the table and fall to pieces.
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Fit for Halloween
Cameras cannot get any scarier than this--a real human skull as its body adorned with gems. Although its inventor said his out-of-this-world design is to bring the photographer closer to his subjects, we think this large-format shooter belongs in the rooms of Goth-embracing teens.
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Play catch and snap
For twisted minds, it's probably a joy to see your victim's expression when you throw something at him. But this is not what the researchers for the Tospom had in mind--it is more of a fun shooter that snaps a shot when the receiver catches the ball-camera from the thrower.
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Eco-friendly shooter twists wrists
Designed for tree-huggers who'd rather stumble in the dark than to turn the night light, this conceptual point-and-shoot is powered by kinetic energy generated from twisting one end of the camera. To save juice, there is no LCD to frame your shots, but this is done via a circular hole in the camera.
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Snap-together shooter
D.I.Y cameras can't get any closer than this. Plastic parts are packaged like robot model kits and fixing requires just a pair of scissors and nimble fingers to align the bits together. Pity it is 35mm film point-and-shoot. Maybe 50 years later we'll see a digital version.
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Fake film camera
There are analog shooters trying to dress up like their digital counterparts, and then there is the EazzzY USB Cam which attempts to disguise as a film point-and-shoot by doing away with the LCD display. Small enough to be lost even in your wallet, it plugs straight into a USB port to recharge and transfer images.
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