Flee digicam concept takes pictures while plummeting

The Flee is wonderful: a throwable, flingable digicam with the floating, aerodynamic design of a badminton birdie. It pairs via Bluetooth to your mobile phone: just hurl it up into the air and it will automatically take as many pictures as it can before it lands, which are automatically transfered to your phone, to be ruthlessly expunged until you find that one-in-a-million shot.

Unfortunately, as near as I can tell, it doesn’t appear to be real: the Flee floats on the zephyrs of the concept design ether. It’s a shame, because it’s a neat idea… the perfect thing to take dramatic overhead shots of sweating iPhone 3G crowds. Of course, actually doled out for comes the psychological hump of hurling your expensive camera away from you as hard as you can, to either smash into a million pieces or be quickly carried off by quick-thinking thieves.

flee digital cam [Behance via OhGizmo]

1. [Mister N]

   not real at all. nice idea thou.

2. [guy_jin]

   I remember seeing something like this in the flyers that come with model rocket kits and engines – a camera that mounts on top of a model rocket and took pictures (on film) of things as it fell.

   I remember being amused because the picture they showed off was of 3 mile island.

3. [Bruce Arthurs]

   Except for the wireless transmission to your mobile phone, this sounds like camera tossing.

4. [JoeKickass]

   While this may not exist as a consumer product, it’s a pretty straight forward idea and sure to be in the pages of MAKE any day now.

   Hell I might even do it myself.

   Paging Mark F.

5. [doggo]

   “…quickly carried off by quick-thinking thieves.” Or raptors mid-air. Or dogs.

6. [mdhatter]

   What #5 said. “Or dogs.” It looks more than a little like a chew toy.

7. [Scuba SM]

   The military/police already have something like this, though it’s designed to be thrown through windows.

   Here’s a pic of it on Wired.

   http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/multimedia/2008/01/gallery_homeland_security?slide=2&slideView=4

8. [clueless in brooklyn]

   even if the product isn’t real, you would think that there would be at least one image on their site of what a picture may look like taken from this toy. but there are none. it seems like fun for about 30 minutes. i’d prefer a boomerang, anyway.