This story probably has no practical business application and yet it’s an important sign of how radically our relationship to video has changed in just the last 12 months…
One hundred years ago, if you wanted to see moving pictures, you had to go to a special building, pay admission, and wait for a technologist (the projectionist) to show you the film that was available that day.
Now, people can wear live video on their belt buckles!
It’s crazy, it’s impractical, and I don’t even think it will make it to the status of a fad, but an Amercan engineer who worked in Shanghai for seven years has come up with the Egokast…
For just $289 dollars you can now WEAR the video of your choice on your belt buckle and project it to the world as you strut about town.
The engineer Shaw Kaake found a manufacturer in Shenzhen, a major center of China’s electronics industry to make the units.
If you’re in the market for such a device, you can learn more here: http://egokast.com/
– Ken McCarthy
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Ken,
More evidence that even traditionally slow to react orgs are getting the impact of video.
http://www.scouting.org/boyscouts/rankvideo/
Note that its designed to be shown in a video ipod (when they get the rss fixed – ive reported it to them) and its address at the kid, not the leader or parent.
Also, http://www.scoutparents.org, still really immature, but already generating buzz in the Scouting community.
Mark