This SpongeBob Squarepants-branded digital camera is more toy than quality point-and-shoot, capable of only VGA-quality snapshots written to unexpandable internal flash memory, but it’s the first camera I’ve seen to properly embrace the “lens as eye” metaphor to reveal cameras for the unblinking cyclopean gargoyles they really are. It’s amazing how much apprehension three little eyelashes can convey.
It’s only twenty bucks. Put one over your child’s eye today!
SpongeBob Squarepants Digital Camera Is Neither Square-Shaped Nor Made Of Sponges [OhGizmo.com via Uneasy Silence]
Small, menacing and only one eye… surely this should be Plankton and not spongebob?
This is adorable! I don’t suppose it’s made in China with 20x lead content? – cause I’m all about that right now!
(Wal-Mart just announced another recall of bit-sized toys and refused to name the manufacturer or origin of toys. I wrote it up in my blog…)
http://www.theskinofmyteeth.com
David B.
Reminds me of the Chicco Smile Camera I found at a discount department store, which has a smiley face graphic covering its lens:
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“The lens of this real 35mm camera lights up and smiles at you when it takes your picture. The camera is easy to use, and also has a shoulder strap and real flash. Film and batteries included.”
The film they included was el cheapo, it was so brittle that the sprocket holes tore as I tried to advance the frames but it did leave me with some semi-interesting double exposures.
I guess it’s better than the Crimson King’s Eye Camera from The Dark Tower.
Woe Discordia!
See http://i21.ebayimg.com/08/i/000/bd/d5/9eda_1.JPG
The lens is the nose!
While it says it is pc AND mac compatible .. it also states that this excludes the macbook and macbook pro with built in iSight … i keep scratching my head why that is .. it must have something to do with that this cam also can work as a webcam … weird ..