A research group at the Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences in Japan, have created a very tiny camera, called the Ubi-Camera that will be attached to your index finger.

With this, you can now make a rectangular frame out of your thumbs and index fingers just like in the old days when you try to view or focus on something using your hands to make a box. In this case, the box or the frame you make acts as the viewfinder. From here, you only have to move your hands away from your face for a closer shot and do the opposite for a wide-angle photo. A pressure on your thumb will automatically press the shutter.



The Ubi-camera has an infrared range sensor and a fixed focal lenght lens that can cause some errors at this point though, when it doesn't detect a subject's face properly since it doesn't have a built in viewfinder. So for now, a pc is used to make a precised zoom while researchers are finding ways to improve on a face recognition system.

Ubi-camera is still currently on it's way to being developed fully, and so while waiting, you can still experiment on this new tech find.

via [ techsmate.com ]

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