Imaginarium's Cam1 camera for tykes

by Chris Ziegler, posted Feb 6th 2007 at 10:28PM

It turns out Spain's Imaginarium can do an equally bangin' job applying bulbous design principles to kiddie cameras as it can to kiddie phones, showing the "Cam1" ahead of a possible 3GSM debut next week in Barcelona. "Why 3GSM, haven of all things cellular," you ask? Well, seems this 2 megapixel number can use triangulation of GSM towers to location-stamp images. Otherwise, you get a 1.8 inch color display, MP3 player functionality, and some cutesy buttons that'll likely appeal to the younger crowd. Look for it to be sold through Movistar (it does have a GSM radio, after all) starting this summer for less than €100 ($130).

[Thanks, Javier]

Filed under: Digital Cameras, Portable Audio

Tags: cam1, camera, child, children, imaginarium, kid, kids, movistar, music, spain, spanish

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Kev50027 @ Feb 6th 2007 10:45PM

Yuck! are you supposed to pay a service contract just to have that feature? Plus 130 for a 2 megapixel camera is about 2x what it should be, that thing is junky.

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Merlinox @ Feb 7th 2007 3:09AM

Do you remember Fujifilm Q1? I still have it!

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PJK @ Feb 7th 2007 7:44AM

Its for kids, so it needs to be chunky and robust. Still at that it doesn't look like it could survive a decent tantrum.

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charlo @ Feb 7th 2007 9:30AM

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chrismalinao @ Feb 7th 2007 9:34AM

you might have missed something there. it is a camera phone and the locator feature is not for stamping the images, but for parents to locate the phone (and the kid) via GPRS triangulation.

look here: (http://www.studiolighting.net/spain%e2%80%99s-imaginarium-intros-cam1-camera-phone-for-kids/)

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Kev50027 @ Feb 7th 2007 12:44PM

How are you supposed to use it as a phone though? It just doesn't work..

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