Hey , people withContourGPSsports photographic camera : congratulation ! YOU’VE make headway A PRIZE ! That camera you ’ve got strapped to your helmet has been hiding a secret Bluetooth chip , which you ’ll soon be able to practice to pullulate bouncy video to your smartphone .
https://gizmodo.com/contour-adds-integrated-maps-into-its-helmet-cam-videos-5636541
By put on a firmware upgrade for the photographic camera and downloading a spare phone app , Contour GPS users can rain buckets their camera ’ panorama ( at 8FPS ) to their smartphones over Bluetooth . Having a viewfinder for one of these cameras is a huge deal — it ’s easy to end up with a poorly - framed picture with one of these cameras , since you typically ca n’t preview your shot before transcription — but with a range of 30 + feet , there ’s a stack of room for originative utilisation ( Think super mere surveillance , a rear - mounted car camera , confessional - style video , etc . ) Here ’s how it work :
The Android app should be available in Spring , and the iPhone app should follow soon after . alas , due to differences in Bluetooth handling between Android and iOS , the iPhone version will require a $ 30 sender that slips into an expansion port on the ContourGPS camera .
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