Autographer Life Logging Camera

Autographer Life Logging Camera

Marketing blurb from Autographer.com:
Autographer is a new type of camera which has been custom built to enable spontaneous, hands-free image capture. Its world leading technology includes a custom 136° eye view lens, an ultra small GPS unit and 5 in-built sensors.
These sensors are fused by a sophisticated algorithm to tell the camera exactly the right moments to take photos. You've never met a camera like this before.  





Features:

• 8GB internal memory 
• 5 on board sensors + GPS (ambient light / accelerometer / magnetometer / PIR / temperature) 
• Bluetooth 
• 136º field of view, Glass hybrid wide angle optics, fixed focus 
• 5MPx low light sensor 
• Dedicated smartphone and desktop app. view, tag and share the images. 
• Weight: 58g, Width 37.4mm, Length 95.5mm, Thickness 22.93mm  

My first impressions of the device:

• image quality is ok, fisheye distortion due to wide field of view (~130 degree) 
• GPS takes a looong time to lock on, and only so in the open without too many buildings in the way. Pretty unreliable. 
• battery life limted, with GPS on and high capture frequency, maybe half a day.
• the device determines when images are captured, dependent on settings (high, med, low) and sensor readings. Not clear jet how this algorithm works.
• Smartphone and desktop app seem fine to manage and preview the images and sensor data
• Images and sensor metadata is stored within the camera memory in easy to use formats (JPEG and CSV data)

Autographer Apps
For Windows, Mac OS and iOS (no Android jet)
Download at http://support.autographer.com/latest-downloads/