Gizmodo
Take a ball, pop some digital cameras in it and you've more or less got TosPom. It's a ball-camera gizmo that automatically snaps a picture of you the instant you catch it. Or, if you're like me, a picture of you looking on in dismay as your hand misses, and it hits the dirt. You can see your strange "in action" mugshots on its built-in screen. It sounds like a fun device, but for the life of me I'm not sure how it works. Does it have some kind of weighted insert? The video, complete with horrifyingly catchy electro soundtrack, doesn't add much info.
See what I mean? If it incorporates some neat face-recognition tech, that would be impressive. But if it's just got a basic accelerometer that simply detects an impact, then you're going to be looking at lots of pictures of walls, floors and sky. Those bracelets are a whacky idea too: wouldn't some sort of recessed button do the trick?
Still, there's something endearing about the idea, and I kinda get the idea that it might snap you looking less "posed" than for normal photos. Purposeless fun, in a toy. It's just a prototype, it seems. [TosPom and ]
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An old cheerleader friend of mine did an advertisement for some really expensive juice, painting these red and using them in a cheer routine where she and a friend threw them back and forth and held them up when they jumped. She ended up getting a Cease and Desist letter from Okude Labs that was captioned as follows:
"Re: ToS - Toss/Retoss, TosPom Pom-Pom, POM."
Tesla Laptop, the Outdoor A/C and now this. Is today Useless Gadget Day?
This would be amazing for faceball.
err... odd to be honest, but so is a lot of other stuff that comes from asia :D
@92BuickLeSabre: how long did it take you to think that one up?
it looks like it wouldn't last long if you're the butterfingers type...
I can see the Juggling World scratching their heads and seeing what twisted things they could do with these.
@P3nnst8r: Sadly, it was the first thing that popped into my head.
@92BuickLeSabre: curse you for making me take the time to decipher that!
@92BuickLeSabre: And thus what makes you a star commenter.
Maybe mistaken identity... in the three-in-a-row pictures isn't that centre one... Frucci?
very strange! and what a waste of money!
but from what i can see is, when its caught, it seems to center its, and face upwards, but how it recognizes your face,
beats me.
... oddly, this post reminds me of this...
go to Google, type in... find chuck norris... (hit I'm Feeling Lucky).
I see people getting facecramps from having to toss balls while frantically smiling their.. faces off?
MUST be Russian....because in Russia, ball catches YOU!
What the hell would you want this for, anyway? It's incredibly retarded
do not taunt happy fun ball.
What if, you miss the catch, and it breaks, or gets scratched?
Guys, come on.
1. Picture taken with multiple cameras to get 360x360 field of vision.
2. Face recognition finds face, rotates and crops it.
3. Bracelet allows camera to take photo *before* you catch it, so it's not a photo of the underside of your double chin.
I'm just guessin'...
-ElC
Make sure ur dog doesn't find it
It's interesting that all the shots the ball takes are at eye level, yet they catch the ball at waist level...
Looks like a late April Fools to me, or some very odd prototype.
If it took a 360X360 shot, there would be a lot more use for this thing. In the mean time, I think I'll just stick to my marshmallow gun. It's more fun when my partner doesn't catch it.
Whatever happened to the Satugo?
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