Panasonic shows prototype wearable camera

Panasonic has shown prototypes of a head-worn camera at CES. The camera is waterproof and tiltable, and can wirelessly send a video stream to a smartphone. At the CES, Panasonic gauges the interest.

The wearable camera is worn on the ears and has a bracket at the back of the neck that compensates for the weight at the front, where the camera is at the end. The camera can be tilted up and down. The camera is also resistant to weather influences, making it suitable for filming during outdoor sports activities, just like the GoPro camera.

The Panasonic prototype cannot be worn with a helmet, as is the case with the aforementioned GoPro camera, for example. Therefore, the portable camera from Panasonic would be less suitable for extreme sports, but more for consumers who, for example, want to film their activity.

What is special about the HD camera is that it can wirelessly send video to, for example, a smartphone. Panasonic had set up a test set-up under glass for this. The video quality was good at first glance. An impression of the images that can be made with the camera was given on a monitor above the set-up. The wearable camera would also be equipped with optical or mechanical image stabilization.

It is not known whether Panasonic will actually take the camera into production. Among other things, the manufacturer first wants to wait for the reactions to the CES fair. Given the models shown, Panasonic would release the model in different colors.