Dec 3 2009The Future Is Now: 5.5 Terapixel Camera
This is a Penchan 5.5 Terapixel camera spotted in China. Sure the lens looks like a plastic rhinestone and it has a penguin humping a rock on the front, but that doesn't mean it can't have 5,500,000 mexapixels, right? It doesn't. Remember: you can't judge a book by it's cover. Especially not on a Kindle cause then you'd judge them all the same!
5.5 Terapixels, Huh?: Mis-Advertising Much [gearfuse]
Thanks to lee, who only sends me things that happened at least a year ago because he gets off on people yelling "OLD!" in the comments.
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Reader Comments
1. Timbo - December 3, 2009 12:10 PM
How ironic that such an awesome camera has a crappy picture...
2. Matt-Zilla - December 3, 2009 12:11 PM
knockoff garbage there is better than the good stuff here : (
3. cabbo - December 3, 2009 12:15 PM
@1 fail
@2 fail
Haha sirry chinese transatiorns.
4. LSDiesel - December 3, 2009 12:17 PM
@2, Where do you live? New Jersey?
@3, *takes out can of whoop-ass* Don't make me open this.
5. Katie - December 3, 2009 12:20 PM
TOP 10
6. naas - December 3, 2009 12:22 PM
It would be more convincing if it weren't a hello kitty camera, just sayin
MLIG
7. Crazywow - December 3, 2009 12:24 PM
The Internet Police have issued this statement.
The higher the lead content of the item the more Pixels it's able to hold.
No need for further discussion.
8. cabbo - December 3, 2009 12:24 PM
@4 No senior. 'Twas a fail because they didn't read the whole story.
My TV show 20 Terapixers.
9. cabbo - December 3, 2009 12:26 PM
An underwater depth of 20 kilometers.
10. Daisy - December 3, 2009 12:33 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a total photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never BAck Down where Max was on the outs with a mob kingpin, and went to see him at his little italy cafe. Unbeknownst to Max, the waiter served the boss a cup of draino instead of expresso.
11. Hayley - December 3, 2009 12:33 PM
Comments are slow today.
12. cabbo - December 3, 2009 12:36 PM
11. uh uh, they moving at 20 mirrion teracharacters per secernd.
13. Matt-Zirra - December 3, 2009 12:36 PM
@ 4+8
sarcasm miss FTL
i live in deeeeeeeeeep so. texas, may as well be mexico, but i see the same kind of crap across the border all the time, same crappy translations too
engrish=spanglish
14. cabbo - December 3, 2009 12:42 PM
@13 you sure you got that right? Do I fail or does LSDiesel fail?
15. Hayley - December 3, 2009 12:44 PM
@6. That's not hello kitty. Hello kitty is a kitty. That's a penguin.
Hello penguin.
16. Hayley - December 3, 2009 12:46 PM
Also:
"texas may as well be mexico"
Bahahah. Sure.
17. Hayley - December 3, 2009 12:47 PM
@ cabbo
Everyone fails
Except me!
By sheer comment volume alone.
18. quaddmgtech - December 3, 2009 12:49 PM
@14, you all fail.
19. LSDiesel - December 3, 2009 12:54 PM
I fail so hard that I might as well be @I-Kill-Bambi's
20. naminess - December 3, 2009 12:55 PM
fail
21. zoozle - December 3, 2009 12:59 PM
I guess CSI now DOES make sense!)
22. naas - December 3, 2009 12:59 PM
@15 It's hello something... Hello penguin then. One thing it isn't though is 5.5tpx
23. Gordon "Fucking" Shumway - December 3, 2009 1:01 PM
OLD!
24. Matt-Zilla - December 3, 2009 1:07 PM
i guess i fail
@ 17 i live in South Texas, and that may as well be mexico, srsly the borders like a few minutes drive away, the amount of bud passing thru is fantastic for me/stoners tho
but fuck all the violence that goes down
few hours drive north and its a different story
"these people aint seen a brown-skinned man since they grandparents bought one"
25. Samir N. - December 3, 2009 1:26 PM
No this isn't fake everyone, My brother has one, we use it all the time when filming your children
26. Emode - December 3, 2009 1:41 PM
Maybe it's not a real camera but still 5.5 Terapixel... I would picture the shit out of it anyway.
27. BRIGS - December 3, 2009 1:59 PM
OLD..just sayin
28. Tojo Reeves - December 3, 2009 2:15 PM
It is not Hello - anything, it is Penchan. I know this not because I am an otaku, but because I read the text on the upper left of the camera.
29. cabbo - December 3, 2009 2:27 PM
@LSDiesel careful, he might say something mildly untoward at you.
It's Hello Blue Duck.
30. Andyman - December 3, 2009 2:54 PM
That's stolen Hubble Space Telescope technology.
31. Goblin - December 3, 2009 3:05 PM
"5,500,000 mexapixels"
MEXAPIXELS? whaaaaaaaaaaa?
32. EZ - December 3, 2009 3:05 PM
Fail! This picture was obviously not taken with Hello Quacker 5.5 terabyte camera. It was probably taken with a 5.5 femtopixel camera. That's 10 to the power of negative 15, just sayin. MLIG
33. Amaranth - December 3, 2009 3:41 PM
once again not everything from Asia is from "China", can't you see the writing??? it's Japanese ignorant people...
34. mat' - December 3, 2009 4:04 PM
technically, you don't need a 5.5 terapixels camera to create a 5.5 terapixels picture. BIG interpolation of a 5.5 megapixels pictures can do the work.
Don't care about the picture quality!
35. poop - December 3, 2009 5:16 PM
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
36. cheap paul smith - December 3, 2009 7:20 PM
http://www.newpaulsmith.com/paul-smith-shoes-c-518.html
37. Jen - December 3, 2009 9:31 PM
Except that Penchan is a Chinese manufacturing company... just sayin.
38. Ray - December 3, 2009 9:44 PM
Geez guys, it's a toy. You can write anything on a toy, who really cares?!
39. Mexa - December 4, 2009 4:46 AM
@31: I thought I had been the only one noticing that. MEXAPIXELS? wtf?
Anyway, I'm getting one of those on christmas :D
40. Jaded Icon - December 4, 2009 7:02 AM
@ 33
You mean that place that I get my Hentai pron from?
41. dg - December 5, 2009 10:59 AM
http://flatspin.blogspot.com/2007/04/55-terapixel-camera.html
42. Anon - December 6, 2009 4:57 AM
#38 is right. That's a toy camera, so it can have whatever the hell it wants written on it. My sister has a toy music player that says "90 TB" on it.
43. Hennessy - December 6, 2009 12:22 PM
is it even a question if it's a toy or not? OFCOURSE ITS A TOY! Nothing that 'powerful' could be that cute...other than the GW and I... ^_^
44. Yazılım TV, Php, MySQL, db.. - December 9, 2009 3:57 PM
this is thank you.. :)
45. Crazy - July 1, 2010 11:20 AM
You can also get it in pink.