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Tomy Wonderful Shot dog camera test run

Written by: Michael Keferl on September 6, 2007 at 1:13 am | In DIGITAL LIFE |

We’ve wanted to get one of these for a long time, and my obsessive nerdiness with cameras finally took hold. The Wonderful Shot dog camera from Tomy fits right onto your dog’s collar and takes pictures from his view, though not entirely accurate since it’s in color.

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The camera is 0.35 megapixels, which actually turned out some pretty decent pictures. Even though Sakura and Ibu (my girlfriend’s spoiled dogs) have short legs, you still get a pretty good view from their level. Of course, the pictures aren’t actually taken by the dogs themselves, but are either activated by the remote or by the timer which takes them in various increments.

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This means that you can leave your dogs for a while and then check on what they’ve done for the day, or just take a walk together and snap a few. Even more interesting would be to put the Wonderful Shot on a cat and really get a chance to see what those things get into all day.

Here are some random shots around the garden:
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The Wonderful Shot has an 8MB internal memory which holds 90 photos, and has a built-in battery which is charged via the included “dog bone” USB. Now I just need to think of more interesting situations to put the dogs in, or send them to Michael Vick’s house as spies.

Click to buy the Wonderful Shot online

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Great cam shots. I think if I could fit one of these around the neck of my 125 pound dog, I’d just get a shot of the couch and the television while he lounges around.

Comment by technabob — September 6, 2007 #
doggie cam takes dog’s eye view photos…

Our friends over at CScout Japan turned me onto this wacky digital camera that straps to your dog’s neck and can automatically snap pictures throughout the course of the doggie day.

TakaraTomy’s Wonderful Shot camera keeps a visual diary o…

Trackback by technabob — September 6, 2007 #
Other pets should have this camera installed on their bodies.

Comment by Mike — September 9, 2007 #
I ran across one of these cameras, but I am unable to view my photos. I am assuming it requires a driver/software program to be available to me on my pc…any idea how i can download this???

Thank you in advance,
Anthony

Comment by Anthony Pugh — April 11, 2008 #
I am assuming it requires a driver/software program to be available to me on my pc…any idea how i can download this???

No driver is needed, as it operates just like any other flash memory device. Just connect by USB, access the device, and get your pictures…

Comment by Michael — April 11, 2008 #
i fink diis iss wankkk!!!

Comment by gary — May 6, 2008 #
“Great cam shots. I think if I could fit one of these around the neck of my 125 pound dog, I’d just get a shot of the couch and the television while he lounges around.
Comment by technabob — September 6, 2007 #”

This is pretty much you would get if you tied 1 around MY neck :P

Comment by witchy — September 30, 2008 #
I wanna a kind o this for my dog, it is really usefully, i think

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