Who’s got a Pupillo?

By on August 6, 2007 in News
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I saw this in the window at the 3UK shop. Hmm. It was bigger than I thought it would be. For some reason I thought it would be web-cam sized.

Have you bought one? Has anyone you know bought one?

It’s a pretty neat idea. Buy it, stick in a Pay As You Go sim, place it somewhere interesting, then call it whenever you want to see what it can see.

It’s specifications are here. I’m going to see if I can get hold of one, stick it by my window and then let people call it. The SMS Text News Pupillo!

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  • http://phranticsnr.wordpress.com Daniel

    For occaisional use, it’s probably cheaper to use Orb with an X-Series phone, and set up a cheap webcam on your PC. Here in Oz anyway, because videocalling is 35c/30sec over and above your plan!

  • http://invalid.name Dan Lane

    I was going to say something similar to Daniel in that if you sign up to X-Series for 12 months you can get a free slingbox, plug a standard cheapo camera (either a consumer camcorder or, preferably, a super-cheap CCD camera) and connect using the Sling client on your X-Series handset.

    Having said that, there is a serious geek factor from having a dedicated cellular camera device… Gimmicky though as it’s easily defeated by bog standard cell jammers (and identifiable as a cellular device from the big Three logo).

  • http://www.whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Haha – take it along to all kinds of networking events…

  • http://phranticsnr.wordpress.com Daniel

    We don’t get Sling over here in Australia. Orb and my $5 webcam will have to suffice!

    Though seriously, wouldn’t buying one of these EyeCams (as they’re named here) make you look really shifty? They practically scream “I’m a stalker! I’m putting one in the tree outside your kid’s windows!”

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