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I agree with your idea of the camera firing...but you think this could be less inane than Vine...?

• Kliment 13y ago
  There is a camera design that uses exactly this method, unfortunately patented: http://www.slashgear.com/squinto-throwable-ball-camera-granted-patent-with-prototype-in-the-works-09289505/ http://www.slashgear.com/squinto-throwable-ball-camera-grant... Prior art, unfortunately also attempting a patent is at: http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera http://jonaspfeil.de/ballcamera
  • schiffern 13y ago
    Unless your phone includes "a substantially spherical housing suitable for being projected into an airborne trajectory", I think you're in the clear. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=8477184.PN.&OS=PN/8477184&RS=PN/8477184 http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
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