Everything you should know about Eyez 720p video streaming, recording glasses

Overview

How many faces you can recollect you have seen on way to workplace or way back home since last week? Or how many times you cursed yourself for not being able to capture a scene - you wanted to share with others. Don’t worry; things might change in the near future.

Eyez 720p glasses

Zions, a social media company, is going to launch a pair of glasses, which would be able to capture video and store or stream it to your smart phones.

Handycams are bulky and it is painful for arm muscles to hold mobile phone cameras too long. Solution could be to wear the camera. But you can’t look weird, too. Zion cut the exact deal putting camera within a frame of eyeglasses and named it Eyez™.

Is it on the shelf yet for you to pick?

Pricing and availability

Not actually. Zion has come out with a prototype and released video, shot with it. Final version was due to hit the market by December, 2011. But from Zion’s corporate website and responses made to its backers on Kickstarter, it seems they would be taking couple of more months.

However, they have announced that the price of the final version would be $199.

But what you are getting out of that $199 bill.

What’s great?

Eyez prototype scored more than one brownie point and complied with many claims made by Zion.

1. You don’t have to hold any digital camera and keep targeting it at your object. Just wear the glasses, look at your object and tap the camera on.

2. Camera on the Eyez would be capable of shooting 720 p (1280 x 720) quality video at 30 frames per second’s rate, which is high definition.

3. It will be armed with a monaural microphone. Of course, sound captured with a monaural microphone won’t be of high fidelity. But it can work perfectly well in relatively less noisy places. From the video release shot with Eyez, sound track is audible enough.

4. Eyez would come with Li-ion battery which could run the camera up to 3 hours with a full charge.

5. For connectivity, Eyez has WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth v3.0. The glasses can transfer video, over Bluetooth, it shoots to your smart devices (iPhones and androids). You can then sync those shots to social media sites.

6. Eyez can also store videos on its on-board 8 GB flash memory, too. However, it can either store or stream, not both simultaneously.

7. It is styled after Rayban glasses, so have distinct classy look. Eyez will fit with powered glasses, prescribed by your optometrist. It would be available in tinted glasses, which would give 100% protection against UVA and UVB.

8. Eyez comes with micro USB for charging and data transfer purpose.

What’s not so great?

Did you think its all good? Well, not exactly; there are matters of concerns, too.

1. Camera in the Eyez prototype shows off black horizontal lines on the darker parts of the scene. This could be a distraction.

2. It is heavier to common pair of glasses. So wearing it for longer time could be strenuous.

3. Eyez allows you stealth shooting. This could have some legal impact in real life.

4. There will not be any stabilization mechanism. So video would be shaky, especially so when you will be on move. That would be stressful on viewers’ eyes.

Things to watch out for

1. This device would change the way social videos are captured. More spontaneous scenes would be shot.

2. Willingly or unwillingly you could interfere with other people’s private life. The same fact could make your private life vulnerable, too.

Verdict

Eyez is a tiny consumer grade video capturing device with lot of strong implications. Once available in the market, it would have big impact on video blogging and social media sites. Besides, it gives you power to take note of almost every moment of your life.

Zion has term the innovation as a social media movement and is asking others to participate in the movement by backing the company. The innovation’s snoopy side should attract lots of supporters. However, you would only know actual capability of Eyez when it would hit the road.

Further readings or word around the web

Since the launch of the project on Kickstarter, Eyez™ has attracted lots of attentions from news media and technology bloggers.

Zach Honig of engadget.com says “ZionEyez hopes to deliver a method for sharing your point of view -- quite literally -- in realtime, across the web.”

Win-on-bet.com termed Eyez™ as a way to “broadcast those daily escapades…”

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Eyez 720p video streaming, recording glasses