Eyeclops Bionicam, a Serious USB Toy

January 20th, 2009

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This is the second toy put out by Eyeclops that is marketed for kids but if you try it you may not let your kids have it. This advanced toy is the 2nd eye opener (pun intended) from this new firm that will have kids and adults entertained for hours. Looking similar in build to the Eyeclops Night Vision Goggles, the Bionicam is a handheld portable microscope with a builtin display. It sports 3 levels of magnification, 100x, 200x and 400x which can be changed by rotating the front bezel of the lens. The image is displayed on its approximately 3" LCD screen in full color. It runs on 5 AA batteries via a corded battery pack.

That would be cool enough but there's more. Images and videos can be recorded onto a custom USB drive. Specifics on the image and quality have been hard to come by but best guess is 1024x768 jpeg images and 320x240 AVI video. Eyeclops may not include batteries but they do throw in a 32MB flash drive so that you can start emailing super macro photos and videos right after you send the kids to bed.

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