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Squito™ Throwable 360° Panoramic Camera

Get ready to get your wallet out! A Boston-based designer has created a throwable device fitted with three panoramic cameras.

As the Squito, as it’s known, is thrown from one person to another, the built-in cameras take multiple airborne photos over the full course of the trajectory.

It uses orientation sensors to know when to take the images before stitching the multiple pictures together to create a single panoramic aerial shot.

The throwable camera was designed by inventor Steve Hollinger from Massachusetts and a patent for the device was granted this week.

Squito is the size of a tennis ball and is fitted with three cameras, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) – or orientation sensor – a microcontroller and image processor.

Hollinger’s patent describes the ball-shaped camera as having position sensors that can detemine whether the camera is spiraling or spinning as well as the location of the subject.

Stabilisers also mean that the images taken don’t appear blurred or out of focus.

Squito is also capable of registering the individual frames captured in a sequence.

The camera can then use all of these features to create a seamless panoramic aerial photo.

These images are sent wirelessly to the user’s phone, tablet or desktop.
Squito can also take video clips.

‘Throwable camera innovations are accelerating with advancements in sensor and imaging microelectronics,’ said Hollinger.

‘And with the advent of low-cost, high-speed cameras for outdoor recreation, an affordable throwable camera is finally within reach.’

Hollinger has created a protoype of Squito and, now that the patent has been granted, he plans to manufacture the device for commercial and industrial use.

He claims Squito can be used for sport, architecture, search-and-rescue operations, landscape photography and more.

The ball can be thrown into dangerous or unstable buildings, for example, to take 360-degree photos of the inside.

Squito can also be used with thermal imaging cameras to help emergency services find bodies in buildings.

Hollinger is developing a second Squito model that can capture slow-motion, full-spherical video of subjects visible from a bird’s-eye view along the trajectory.

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15 year old girl (Ann Makosinski) invents flashlight powered by body heat!!

One teenage girl is about to make you feel like a complete underachiever.

 Think about all the accomplishments you’ve attained in your life – things like getting a college degree, buying a first home, landing the perfect job, or successfully modding your own supercomputer. Hold on to those thoughts tightly. This is your ARCHIEVER.

At the age of 15, Ann Makosinski of Victoria, British Columbia is one of the 15 finalists for this year’s Google Science Fair competition.

Her project: A modded flashlight powered by the heat produced within the holder’s palms. Since the sixth grade,

Makosinski says she has been interested in alternative energy and wanted to figure out a way to generate power from a source that’ll last as long as humans live. Her research brought her to the concept of Peltier tiles, which produces energy when one side of the tile is heated and the other side is cooled. To get the tiles to create more voltage, Makosinski spent years reworking the circuit until it provided enough power to light an LED.

“This took quite awhile ’cause I had to do it during the school year as well and I had homework, plays, whatever that I was also doing,” she told CBC News. Her speech still hints of adolescence. ”You just kind of have to keep going.” Despite her parents’ lack of post-secondary science education, they’ve always encouraged Ann to pursue her passion for the subject. Her father helped her order various Peltier tiles off eBay so she could continue her experiments.

In the end, the working prototype is an aluminum tube and PVC tube, both working together so that the hollows would allow air to cool one side of the Peltier tile while the user’s hand transfers heat to the other. In her tests, Makosinski found that the flashlight worked better at 5 degrees Celcius (41 degrees Fahrenheit) because it allowed the cooler air to circulate, generating more power. But even at 10 degrees Celcius (50 degrees Fahrenheit), the light maintained a steady glow for more than 20 minutes.

Makosinski will be traveling to Mountain View, CA to present her project to Google this September. If she wins the grand prize, she’ll walk away with $50,000 and a trip to the Galapagos Islands. With the production cost per flashlight at approximately $26, Makosinski will be able to make lots of devices if she wins – and one would imagine economy of scale should make mass production even cheaper for customers.

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