Oh Gizmo! reviews the GigaPan EPIC, a motorized mount for cameras that allows you to automatically take massive gigapixel panoramas with little user interaction. They like the $380 device a lot, except for a perhaps fatal flaw:
We all know that battery life is the bane of almost all consumer electronics, but the EPIC does particularly bad in this department. The company claims that with a fresh set of ‘brand name’ batteries the EPIC can take about 1,000 shots at room temperature, but our own tests saw it running out of battery life well before that. Now I’ll admit that Sunday wasn’t the warmest of days here in Toronto, in fact the thermometer was just below the freezing mark, but as it stands we’ve found the GigaPan EPIC is almost useless for any outside photography until the weather warms up.
