It’s no secret that Apple has given some thought to wearable cameras. The company already has a patent that would crush GoPro if it ever decided to make sports cameras, but there’s not enough money in the market for Apple to even bother.
We’ll probably never get to see what Jony Ive’s perfectly designed answer to GoPro would have looked like, but our friends at Curved have been busy dreaming up the perfect action cam that works seamlessly with the iPhone and Apple Watch. Their answer is called the iPro: an action cam that looks so good, you’ll never want to beat it up.
Take a closer look:
The lens for the iPro looks like a chopped iSight camera tube. It packs a small 4K sensor, with high FPS performance similar to the GoPro Hero 4. The entire unit would be water sealed, and dust-and shock-proof, but you could toss it in a clear protective case too.
The click wheel makes a comeback in the iPro concept. Pressing the photo button a few times lets you switch between wide angle and normal shooting. You can also toggle timelapse and slowmotion controls. The LED above the click wheel indicates what mode you’re in, but i’d rather Apple just slap a tiny touch screen on the back.
iPro comes with at least 16GB of storage and a sleek little dock to recharge it in. There’s a stereo shotgun microphone above the lens and it can also connect to your iPhone to share photos directly to the cloud.
Source: Curved
Buster Hein is a freelance writer who lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Twitter: @bst3r.
5 responses to “Apple would take a bite out of GoPro with this action cam concept”
Cool concept. But wouldn’t it be called the iCam or something not so close the “GoPro”?
If taking an Apple TV remote and slapping a lens on the back of it makes a perfect action camera then GoPro had nothing to worry about.
hahaha, how ridiculous, im finding it hard to say more than that.
If apple “has a patent that would crush gopro” then they don’t even have to make an action cam just let the patent put them out of business.
Powerful piece of paper that!
Also that is indeed a lazy concept, being as any actual camera is more than likely years away why don’t these kids use some imagination instead of regurgitating old designs, i never understand how these people find jobs!
I think a more likely configuration would be an iPhone-like camera on a clip-on iPod shuffle, using gyros to fix the perspective. Certainly possible technologically, if not today then not too far off.
A possible deal-breaker: Glass has demonstrated that wearable cameras may carry a stigma too powerful for even Apple to overcome…
I don’t know, though, about the idea that Apple wouldn’t go for this market because it’s too small. Apple has a tendency to make previously small markets huge. I’d pay $100-$200 for one in a heartbeat…
Also the battery goes for a solid year without charging due to Superior+ Charge Technology(TM) allowing for constant usage and uploads.
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And it is now powered by Siri thanks to the healing piles of fairy dust and unicorn spooge.
Who the fuck cares about this level of asinine shit? It’s easy to make a rendering and spout of features when IT DOES NOT EXIST. FFFFFFFFTUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU