I’ve greater than 5,500 pictures in my digital camera roll proper now – and that’s largely simply the pictures that I’ve shot on my iPhone over the past yr or so. Odds are, a number of these pictures gained’t get revisited usually, or in any respect. However that’s precisely the inspiration behind an odd new digital camera referred to as the Kyu.
Kyu is a Japanese startup, and its first product – a digital camera by the identical identify – is an excessive instance of minimalist tech. The digital camera solely takes movies as much as 9 seconds lengthy, doesn’t take images in any respect, and limits customers to taking as much as 27 movies a day.
The explanation behind the minimalism is maintaining these reminiscences from getting misplaced within the midst of the more and more massive quantities of knowledge saved on onerous drives and clouds which can be more likely to by no means get a re-examination.
The idea isn’t extraordinary – the Fujifilm X Half, for instance, has a movie mode that limits the choices till a full “roll” has been stuffed.
ABOVE: See the Kyu digital camera in motion in Teo Crawford’s sensible video
The design of the Kyu appears to be like extra like an odd distant management than a digital camera – or as YouTuber Teo Crawford described it, it appears to be like like what would occur if “Apple, Tomagotchi, and a Nikon Coolpix had a child.” There’s only one button on the again, the remainder of the controls are by way of gestures on the Kyu’s round display.
There are literally two cameras constructed into the egg-shaped machine. The entrance digital camera is a 1/4-inch 8MP Sony sensor and the rear digital camera is a 1/3.06-inch 13MP Sony sensor. Video high quality is barely as much as FullHD 30p. There’s detachable USB-C storage and the machine additionally has an Android app.
The corporate calls the Kyu a “simply sufficient camcorder.”
The Kyu digital camera is obtainable for pre-order from the corporate’s web site, with transport estimated for someday within the fourth quarter of 2025.
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