Wearable photo cam comes from UK

£400 device goes on sale in the UK with companion iPhone app, providing competition for Memoto, GoPro and others.

Who said smartphones would kill off the personal digital camera? A new, wearable camera called Autographer goes on sale in the UK today, and is designed to work with iPhone and Android smartphones rather than compete with them.

The five-megapixel device weighs 58g and can be worn around the neck or clipped onto clothing. It is capable of shooting up to 2,000 photographs a day, and storing up to 28,000 on its internal memory.

It's the work of British firm Oxford Metrics Group, which is selling the Autographer from its own website for £399.99 ahead of a wider retail launch. The company had planned to start selling the camera in November 2012, but says it has spent the last six months refining the device.


/The Guardian/