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The Tamaggo 360 Imager

By Rain Noe - January 23, 2012

in Photography

This egg-shaped device is the Tamaggo, a "360-imager" (basically a digital camera with a wraparound lens) due to hit store shelves later this year. The Montreal-based company of the same name is betting that the simplicity of "Tammagraphy"—users can capture navigable panoramas with just one click—will adequately trump the current method of shoot, spin and software-stitch so that consumers will want to shell out the roughly $200 to own one. I'm not sold on the bulky form factor, but I also underestimated, pre-Facebook, how badly people want to share photos with each other.

The thumbnails shown above are examples of the data captured in a single snapshot, but aren't representative of what the final photo-viewing experience would be; to interact with a navigable Tamaggo image, click here.

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Pancho

12 years ago

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Cool. It looks like HAL 9000 eye.
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powers

12 years ago

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OK, not bad. $200 is a bit steep, but I could see this kind of tech being a boon for the security camera biz. You could cut your security cameras by 80 or 90% and get everything.
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