From a child laughing as a puppy licks their face, to the look on a woman’s face when her lover pops the big question, or when your friend faceplants while walking life’s most precious moments are too fleeting to get out our phones to take a picture.
Blincam attaches to the hinge of most any pair of glasses, ready to take a picture in the blink of an eye—literally. This means capturing memories exactly as we see them, as quickly as they happen. We can take them whether our hands are free, or busy riding a bike, helping our kids or holding someone we love. Most of all, it frees us up to live in the moment, not the screens of our phones.
“Do you remember the first time your kid stood, or touched a dog?” asks inventor and Blincam CEO Shota Takase. “I designed this camera because you should see these things with your eyes, not the screen of a smartphone. Capturing a moment should never get in the way of living it.”
The device watches its user’s eye with a sensor. Whenever it detects a blink that’s any longer than a “normal” blink, it snaps a picture and sends it to the user’s smartphone via Bluetooth. From there, the app lets one view and share photos whenever they want.
It’s attached via a simple hook system that makes it quick to put on. Between that and its eight-hour battery life, it’s easy to leave Blincam on whether someone is expecting to take pictures or not.
Yet its hook system means that when one goes somewhere pictures are inappropriate or forbidden, like a locker room or museum, it’s as easy to remove as it is to put your smartphone away.
This September, Blincam successfully raised over $220,000 in a crowdfunding campaign in Japan. With this success, the company realized they could bring their business international. So today, the device launches on Indiegogo for backers in the West, seeking $35,000 to pay for international manufacturing and distribution, to add a bit more polish to the device, and let Western backers in on the crowdfunding discounts. Funds raised will go to refining the final design and initial manufacturing and distribution overhead.
The device will retail for $199, estimated to ship in April 2017. Backers can get their Blincam at much lower rates and can get crowdfunding-exclusive designs for both Blincam and glasses frames at higher levels. For more information, visit the Indiegogo page.
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