Thanko gives you the Spy Button Camera (plus a golden ring as the remote control)
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by Serkan Toto on July 2, 2009

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Thanko, specialists of all things USB, brought us many good things in the past. Camera-wise, the Tokyo-based company rolled out a water-proof mini camera, a USB necktie with a built-in camera, not one but two video watches and (just recently) an HDV camera.

But these fantastic devices had one flaw: They were small, but not small enough. Reason enough for Thanko to announce the video camera button today [JP]. Needless to say the camera comes with a USB port (this is a Thanko product), 4GB of internal memory and the ability to shoot video in VGA at 15fps.

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You can take videos for up to 90 minutes. Thanko says you can also take pictures in 1280 x x 1024 resolution (as JPEGs). What’s really weird is you also get a golden ring with the camera (apart from a total of 5 buttons). The ring doubles as your unassuming remote control and lets you switch the camera on and off. This is pretty cool.

Get the whole set at Geek Stuff 4 U for $68.64 plus shipping if you live outside Japan.

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  • Well, well, it is a good electronic product but I doubt that it will be abused.
    It is hard to detect. But it maybe a good tool for news reporter. This kind of hi-tech product not only make some job easy to be done but also make other works hard to handle at the same time.

    For personal privacy, it is really a bad tool.

    G
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  • Awesome! Soon I’ll be distributing the worst movie bootlegs on bit torrent ever!

  • Sounds cool. Hope it comes on a better looking shirt, though.

  • thought it was really cool at first, but unless there is a button slot on the back of it, wont it be very noticeable seeing as that section of the shirt wont be closed? Look like a sloppy spy i would think

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