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Product: Camera: Shape
Cellphone periscope   (+18)  [vote for, against]
Use Flip-phone Camera and Screen to see around corners

Many cellphones these days have video cameras built in, consisting of a fixed-focus lens on the outside and a moderately readable viewing screen on the inside.

It wouldn't take much to make these parts extendable to function as a periscope to see around corners without exposing oneself directly to unknown firepower that may be lurking.
-- csea, Jun 14 2010

Kind of like... http://www.maplin.c...mages/full/rm36.jpg
... but with camera and video... ? [Jinbish, Jun 14 2010]

I always thought this would come in handy http://qik.com/video/live
[DenholmRicshaw, Jun 14 2010]

Marketing Map http://www.globalconflictmap.com/
Current cities in which to market the [csea] cellphone periscope. Primary emphasis on cities marked by a red pointer. [jurist, Jun 15 2010]

Big In Japan http://s0.ilike.com...04a9dbdc61963ba8b37
[normzone, Jul 05 2010]

OptiEyes http://gizmodo.com/...s-of-being-arrested
Neat ! [8th of 7, Jul 06 2010]

You expect these to be big sellers in Belfast and Kabul? (Actually, I like the idea of the camera lens mounted on an extendible stalk, but don't find the rationale compelling.)
-- jurist, Jun 14 2010


How about using two phones; one at each end of a stick.

One could be using Qik Live (see link) and the other could be viewing it.
-- DenholmRicshaw, Jun 14 2010


Why would they be big sellers in Belfast? Kabul I understand, but Belfast is now one of the safest cities in Europe and has the lowest violent crime stats of any large city in the UK.
-- xenzag, Jun 14 2010


Probably due to the propensity of people there to look around corners?
-- rcarty, Jun 14 2010


Useful for many types of home or auto repair tasks. [+]
-- swimswim, Jun 14 2010


Hard to believe they don't have these already.
A pull out endoscopic lens could come in handy too.
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Jun 15 2010


Just what I need for my clandestine sub warfare campaign.
-- Letsbuildafort, Jun 15 2010


+ most excellent idea.
-- xandram, Jun 15 2010


freaking genius
-- theircompetitor, Jun 19 2010


Only Americans use flip-phones. Everywhere else they're considered vulgar and passé, and of course make you look like an American (which is the same thing)
-- xenzag, Jun 19 2010


I use the term "unknown firepower" advisedly, perhaps innocently meaning someone one wishes to see but whom one doesn't wish to see one at present.
-- csea, Jul 04 2010


//Only Americans use flip-phones//
I hear they're still big in Japan.
-- AbsintheWithoutLeave, Jul 04 2010


Using Bluetooth, a small, fully automomous camera could be used, with accessories like a telescopic rod. mini tripod, suction cup mount.

[+]
-- 8th of 7, Jul 06 2010



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