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The Bilwatch is a Watch That Can Control Your Smartphone’s Camera

Chris Gampat
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08/18/2013
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Last Updated on 08/18/2013 by Chris Gampat

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The other day, we saw a watch with a camera built into it–but this other product that we found is an even more strange development. The Bilwatch is an accessory that mounts around your wrist and controls your phone’s camera. It can record video and shoot photos–and from the demo video that we have below it is also pretty damn responsive.

The units construction consists of two buttons for shooting photos and shooting/stopping video recording. There are two different LEDS: Green means photo mode, orange for video, blue flash for when it hasn’t connected to the iPhone, blue constant for connected, and red for weak battery.

The watch is being billed as being shockproof, waterproof and will connect to your phone via Bluetooth. While it seems pretty damn cool so far, there is no indication as to whether or not it can tell time–which is the essential functionality of a watch. It’s still a prototype though, so anything can happen.

Check out the demo video below. So far, there is no indication as to whether it will work with Android phones. But the Muku Shuttr does and it works with Bluetooth technology as well.


 

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.
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