Fuuvi Bee, a Low-Fi ‘8mm' Digicam

The ultra-light, teeny-tiny Bee camera mimics 8mm home movies of old You can probably process the footage from your video-capable camera or phone to mimic the 8mm home movies of yesteryear, but if you can pick up the 1.4-ounce Fuuvi Bee–which shoots for 100 minutes on a single charge–for just $80, it's hard to see why you'd bother. Especially as the Bee is designed to spit out herky-jerky 8mm-style movies with no post-processing whatsoever. As you'd expect, the Bee boasts an almost wilfully poor set of specs. The video–captured to microSD card–is recorded at 640 x 480 pixels and 30fps, and the 1.3MP sensor can also capture stills. Shutter speeds run from 1x6 – 1x2500 sec and the lens has a decent maximum aperture of ƒ2.8. Here's a sample clip (you don't need to watch it all–things get a little boring). The camera is tiny, too, thanks to the fact that it needs neither film nor much in the way of quality components to do its stuff. Finally, the connection to your computer is a rather disappointing USB 1.1. Then again, the files will at least be pretty small, and as they are served up as AVI Motion JPEGs, you should be able to drop them straight into iOS iMovie vie the camera connection kit. The Bee is available now. Fuuvi Bee 8mm Style Retro Digital Camera [AudioCubes via Andrew Liszewski]

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