Smile, you're on canine camera!
Takara Tomy's "Wonderful Shot" pet camera snaps shots of a dog's or cat's travels from your best friend's point of view. Bow? Wow!
Ever wonder what your pet gets up to when he or she's out & about, patrolling the neighborhood? Wonder no more - thanks to Japanese toy and gadget maker Takara Tomy, you now have a photographic record of their adventures in the wide wild world!
Postcards from the hedge
The tough, light camera attaches to your pet's collar and weighs just 38 grams (under an ounce & a half), and it's no toy. The 3.5 megapixel camera has an 8 MB internal memory that allows up to 90 photos to be taken. Li'l Furball's first photo album'll be full in no time flat! The battery is rechargable and the adjustable timer can be set to snap a pic at 1, 3, 5, 10, 15, 30 or 60 minute intervals.
This isn't Takara Tomy's first venture into the pet-tech market; their "Bowlingual" (dog) and "Meowlingual" (cat) translators have proven to be solid hits - with pet owners, at least.
Agent K-9, here is your mission...
The Wonderful Shot - a very Japanese name if ever there was - also lets you do the snapping via an infrared remote control. Once everyone's back home, simply connect the camera to your computer via the included bone-shaped USB connector and download the pics.
Hmm, multifunctional paws buttons!
Knowing that the Wonderful Shot pet camera was likely to appeal to non-Japanese pet owners as well, Takara Tomy was thoughtful enough to include instructions in English. Arigato, guys! Order your Wonderful Shot pet camera online from specialty retailers like Japan Trend Shop for just $79.00 plus shipping.
Steve Levenstein
Japanese Innovations Writer
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Submitted on December 15th, 2007 by eto (not verified)can you help me with a backlink please? i really need you.. i hope you wont let me down.. please :(
I have seen the future of photography...
Submitted on December 15th, 2007 by Ted Fisher (not verified)... and his name is Fluffy.
Wonderful Shot info is both old and incorrect
Submitted on December 16th, 2007 by Kennedy Gitchel (not verified)While certainly innovative at the time, this product is very old news. It was sold by the pre-merger Tomy about THREE YEARS AGO and has long since been discontinued and therefore is highly unlikely to be found available anywhere. Furthermore, the spec's noted here are wrong just as they are wrong on the source site which recycled this old product information, "Japan Trend Shop" (www.kilian-nakamura.com). The resolution for this camera was not 3.5 megapixels, but a low by today's standards, 350k pixels.
For those that are interested and can read Japanese, the original product site for Wonderful Shot (with correct specs) is still available on the merged TAKARATOMY site, here:
http://www.takaratomy.co.jp/products/wonderfulshot/03_spec.html
Btw, the name of the product is a clever pun in Japanese because the "Won" in 'Won' derful is the Japanese onomatapoeia for a dog bark, like "woof" in English.
Kennedy C. Gitchel
TOMY Company, Ltd., Japan (aka K.K. TAKARATOMY)
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