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We have become a society that is interested in what’s going on in other peoples’ lives, thanks to the advancements made in technology as well as the social networking bug that has bitten just about everyone. Well, when you have a tool which will further the end of spontaneous photography, why not? Enter the £299.99 Autographer which will arrive with a 136° eye view lens that is guaranteed to make sure that everyone will be able to cram into the photo.

The Autographer will be equipped with 5 on board smart sensors, where you can choose from whenever you are snap happy. Touted to be a revolutionary new kind of camera, the Autographer has been specially constructed to deliver spontaneous and hands-free image capture moments. Arriving in an ultra-compact, stylish, discreet and light form factor, you might not even notice that the Autographer is there in the first place, as you clip it to your jacket, hang it around your neck or place it on the table at a party. The battery is good to go for 24 hours on a full charge, and the control panel allows you to select on whether to dial up the rate of image capture or not.
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It’s been a long time coming, close to a year, but OMG Life’s clippable, er, lanyard-able life-logging camera will be available to buy tomorrow. The Autographer launches in the UK (where the company’s based) and most major European countries on July 30th, priced at a rather prohibitive £400 (we’re still confirming a US dollar price, but a later launch has been promised) and pitching itself as “the world’s first intelligent wearable camera.” We’d position it as an addition to your smartphone and/or standalone camera, like Lytro or the incoming Memoto, for those that have the cash.

There’s a curious appeal to it, helped by an attractive design that’s predominantly plastic. We spent over three days wandering around, sometimes with it on a leather lanyard (included) around our neck, sometimes clipped to our belt or shirt pocket. For better or worse, it’s a truly hands-off camera: there’s really no way to frame or even time your captures. The Autographer itself chooses when to take a shot using its five sensors (monitoring changes in color, temperature, magnetometer, motion and acceleration), which means there’s a hefty dose of luck involved in how your photos turn out. See whether Lady Luck was shining down on us (the sun certainly wasn’t) and check out our sample images below and first impressions after the break.

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Sure, we’ve all got a camera on us at all times, thanks to the prevalence of smartphones and point-and-shoots, but these devices present an issue when it comes to that modern human desire to electronically capture everything that happens everywhere ever: having to actually take the pictures. That’s why the unsettlingly giddily-named OMG Life is working to unleash the Autographer, a hands-free, wearable camera that promises to take “thousands of photographs a day” via its wearable lens. Just drape it on your person and it will uses its six on-board sensors (GPS, color, accelerometer, motion detector, magnetometer and thermometer) to determine the right moment to snap one of its unwieldy volume of images. Says the company,

For instance, Autographer might capture an image when the wearer speeds up as they run for the bus, moves from a warm pub to a snowy street or turns around to greet a friend.

Also, you know, stuff like your wedding and the birth of your child. The camera’s got a five-megapixel sensor, OLED display, 8GB of on-board storage and built-in Bluetooth for sharing those pictures. The company’s currently aiming for a November release, just in time for capturing every single moment of the holiday season. In the meantime, the press info is after the break.

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