Hasta La Ideas

There are at least two companies battling it out for the throwable camera market, which in its nascent stages consists of firefighters, emergency responders and the military, and which I believe will eventually expand into the construction, HVAC and building inspection industries. What’s interesting is the very different form factors pursued by each company’s design teams.

Massachusetts-based Bounce Imaging is going with a softball-sized sphere peppered with multiple cameras:

Meanwhile, Minneapolis-based competitor Recon Robotics has opted for a wheeled barbell-like design featuring a single camera:

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