May 15 2008Underwater Camera Mask Is A Great Idea
The SeaLife SL321 ECOshot is (allegedly) the world's first underwater camera built into a snorkeling mask. It packs a 5 megapixel camera and is good up to depths of 15 feet. It even has crosshairs in the eye pieces so you can frame up your shot and goes for right around $100.
Sweet. Mine just arrived so I'm gonna head down to the pool and see if I can't score some shots of the college girls swim team in action. I'll post any sweet derrières I manage to capture.
UPDATE: So I was the only one in the pool. Which was weird, I mean there wasn't even a lifeguard around. I guess I missed the sign on my way in, but the pool was supposed to be closed for disinfecting. Which explains the floater in the deep end I snapped a pic of.
UPDATE UPDATE: Just got an email from a concerned reader.
Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 2:30:53
From: allstarseaworthy@snorks.com
Subject: Geekologie Tip - We came up with this shit years ago
Geekologie Writer,
This post is bullshit. Snorks came up with these years ago and have been selling them forever in Snorkland. Screw whoever is making this claim, we demand royalties.
Help us get our money,
AllStar Seaworthy (Snork)
World's First Swimming Mask With Integrated Digital Camera [tfts]
Thanks Andrew, and no, it definitely wasn't a Baby Ruth
Reader Comments
1. Jason - May 15, 2008 3:59 PM
Okay this is a sweet idea. But only 15 feet? Kind of a non-starter.
2. SmokingGirl - May 15, 2008 4:09 PM
Open water terrifies me...there are crabs there. I hate crabs; with their scuttling ways and eyes on top of their head, they're an abomination. They also seem to have a nasty attitude.
I don't know where I was going with that. Sing a happy song!
3. Tom Frost - May 15, 2008 6:39 PM
Someone needs to take SmokingGirl's keyboard away.
4. Freddy K - May 15, 2008 7:16 PM
take away her keyboard? no way. I think it would be much more entertaining to tell her that she can have her batha slippers, but with the knowledge that they are the home of a lovely pair of crabs, which have made the slippers their new spawning ground.
that would be much more fun than taking away her keyboard.
5. SmokingGirl - May 16, 2008 12:19 AM
I couldn't brave a spawning of crabs even if they were making a home in my bantha slippers. That's just how terrified I am of those things...they're evil.
Oh, @3, I'd like to see you try to take my keyboard away from me...
6. Joey - May 16, 2008 2:34 AM
Come on people! No one is going to make the obvious crab joke here? Sad.
7. butterbee - May 16, 2008 10:11 AM
snorkeling... teehee
8. Momboelitist - May 16, 2008 11:05 AM
Wouldn't it be cool if there was a camera that worked out of the water?
@SG, 4,990! you're starting to use them up fast now.
9. Jen - August 11, 2008 4:40 PM
You can purchase the Liquid Image Underwater Digital Camera Mask at www.kidsstuff.com