You underestimate Japanese culture.

wow. this almost has a point.

who would buy this? i mean, come on, i could see it as one of those gifts you toss in the attic with the fruit bread, and that's if its cheap.

I wonder how much this will sell for? $500... $1000?

I could build the same thing with one of those $5 wooden helicopters and a small cheap $10 digital camera.

@Michai:"word"

Just rub the stick between your palms, and you will shoot in the air? Did I log onto Fleshbot by mistake? Again?

Without a fast frame capture things are gonna look wwwwwwaaaarrrrrrrppppppppeeeeddddddddd.

You know...this is one of the most retarded things I've ever seen...but the pure gadgetry of it makes me orgasm. I'm glad to see some real gadget reporting, and glad to say I've jumped ship from the S.S. EngadgetlovesApple.

I'm sure that they have some fantasy method of counter-rotating the camera.

A method likely involving unicorns.

If you chopped someone's head off with that thing they'd have photographic evidence that you did it. Scary.

is it possible to have a job just sitting around thinking of concepts that "will never see the light of day", and then drawing it? Cause I can do that too. In fact, I have been doing it since third grade, drawing hoverboards, undersea cities, wrist phones, headphones with an mp3 built inside it, and awesome yachts that had helicopters landing inside them (several of which have appeared on gizmodo as "awesome designs that will never see the light of day).

its not hard to think of cool sh*t, show me a working model and I am impressed. till then, if you've seen one computer modeled fantasy, you've seen them all.

@gadgetfanatic: LOL

@redkamel: 1: render your ideas
2: make a site (redkamelstudio?) that is devoid of any real info, but makes bombastic yet vague claims about your own vision
3: (I'm not sure what to put here. I really have no clue how these people make money (besides selling super over priced keyboards))

I can see this being made on the cheap. Maybe swag at the next CES?

That would be an extremely easy project to make yourself. All you'd need is a digital camera kit and a timer to trip it. The only problem would be blur if the camera is spinning too, but you could put that on a ball bearing.

Putting it on a Frisbee would probably work better.

And what happens to the camera, when, you know, it comes down?

@Shuft: I thought it was :
1 ) render your ideas
2 ) ????
3 ) Make a lot of money

But, wow, you figured out #2, Homer would gladly thank you.

I swear I was just cleaning the thing and it went off!

@strider_mt2k:

hey keep your fleshbot posts out of gizmodo!

@nutbastard:
How can you be so CRUEL, especially to #1.
Go back to Jezebel, biotch!

@MrThunderfield:it is broken.

I was just thinking of a need for one of these things. I was in a foreign city (Barcelona) and lost in the narrow streets where I couldn't see any of the landmarks. I was thinking it would be nice to be able to have a camera get a bird's eye view so I could figure out which direction I would need to go. Not wanting to chuck my camera into the air, I just continued wandering aimlessly, until I gave up and flagged down a taxi.

I wonder how often "Mr Wang" rubs his "stick" betwen his "palms" untill it "whizzes into the air".

Now that's what I call a well written post.

LOL