Here’s the idea: You wear the Looxcie on your ear and it records everything you see, roughly as you see it. The camera can hold up to four hours of video (in crummy 480×320 at 15fps); when it runs out of space, it starts dumping the oldest footage – it’s not made for collecting clips, it’s for capturing them in the moment.
When that shareable moment arrives – your cat gets stuck in a vase! – you press a button that instantly makes a clip out of the last 30 seconds and it gets beamed via Bluetooth to an app on your Android phone (other OSes coming by the end of the year). There, you can edit the clip and share it through all the usual services. The app also lets you access all the other footage stored on your Looxcie, allowing you to create longer clips and tweak settings.
If you’re the particular species of oversharer who likes the idea of your every move being committed to (computer) memory, or if you want to finally figure out what happens after you drink all those FourLokos, you can pick up a Looxcie over at Amazon for $US200. [Looxcie]
Cody
Tuesday, December 7, 2010 at 5:40 PMHere in Australia, you can’t buy it on Amazon. They will only ship it to US addresses.
Great regurgitation of a press release, instead of actually talking to the company and finding out what the deal is for your Australian readers.
Jillian
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 3:58 PMGizmodo get your act together
Amazon doesn’t ship to Australia – just spent an hour trying to buy.
Cody, try shop.htcpedia.com who are shipping international free of charge – I hope not too good to be true as I just bought one.
Nick Broughall
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 4:01 PMWe’ve covered this before. There are plenty of services that offer the ability to forward ship from the US using sites like Amazon. Just because we don’t spell it out on every post we get from our US brethren doesn’t mean we don’t have our act together…
Roger Lawrence
Friday, February 25, 2011 at 5:57 PMHey Nick,
I get that Jillian was clearly frustrated, and may’ve been able to express that more productively.
I would also suggest, however, that getting defensive may not be the best approach to happy customers. No matter how annoyed you are at their comments.
If (even one person) people are frustrated because of anything, that’s good feedback to improve your site. Getting antsy just loses readers. Responding with, “hey sorry guys, you’re right, we should’ve highlighted you can’t ship this from Amazon. Check out here on our site where we link to services that will ship this for you” Will win you a lot more friends, and customers.
I do find it ridiculous that you can ship most products from Amazon, and with no explanation, not others. Of course that’s not Gizmodo’s fault, but Kyle’s article was pretty compelling, you have to expect people are going to try and by this thing.
All the best
Arnie Arroyo
Saturday, March 5, 2011 at 8:54 AMRoger make a valid point. Im not an avid gizmo reader but was interested in more info on the Looxcie which brot me here. Nick, u may hav “covered this b4″ but a “novice” such as myself, who isnt a regular reader wouldnt no that, would I? I guess gizmo is for the person more advanced in tech and online purchasing, so in the future I will go elsewhere to get my info where they can “dumb it down” and spell out how I can make my purchases……