Benjamin Button

The world's first smart camera for families

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The world's first smart camera for families

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Launch tags:Home•Kids•Crowdfunding

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Wistia

This looks great! As a little object clipped to my kids, I really want to hold this in my hand and feel its weight and material. What physical prototyping did you do, and did you try other materials or shapes? It seems like something whose success would really depend on it being an object I'm happy to pick up and touch. I'm imagining milled wood, or 3D printed custom shells.

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9yr ago

Benjamin Button

Maker

@jringenberg I totally get your point. To see our current state of development, you can check our prototype gallery on Kickstarter: https://goo.gl/gUP63Y - The device weighs 60 grams and the casing will be made of BPA-free plastic, IP 66. At this point we are using 3D printing to test our prototypes and record the videos that you can see in our youtube channel or in the most recent media coverage by Mashable - http://on.mash.to/2rISY6l _ Milled wood sounds fantastic, but the first generation of the product will stay with this "conventional" solution, to be child-friendly and meet the IP standard. Thanks for the question!

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9yr ago

Wistia

@lpkova Awesome - that's great to see!

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9yr ago

cool device, but i can't help but think this is edging close to black mirror territory. what's the deal with privacy?

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9yr ago

Benjamin Button

Maker

@thewrongjoshua Benjamin is network independent - you can either store the videos in your computer without ever uploading them online or you can easily upload them to the cloud. The choice is yours, you're in full control of the data as with any other camera or smartphone. If the device is lost, only authorized devices can access the videos stored on integrated SD card.

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9yr ago

I really like the concept, how do you guys get around that some kids will not wear this? I know my son if I put this on him he would take it off immediately. I see that you can have it standing up as well on a counter. What is the best way your users are experiencing this product?

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9yr ago

Benjamin Button

Maker

@michael_aaron_grier from our experience, kids are really motivated by the content they create - once they have the experience of "reliving" something they did this way. For example daughters of our founder @DominikOrfanus love to watch the videos they did before going to sleep, and then naturally they want to create this content themselves again. If the child doesn't want to wear the camera, the parent can always start wearing the camera first. Once the child likes the first video, our experience is that they want to start recording themselves: https://www.youtube.com/channel/...

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9yr ago

Ness Labs

Hunter

Cool concept, similar to what the Narrative Clip tried to create, but focused on kids and family. The colorful cameras are waterproof, and come with an app that helps you pick and edit the best moments. It also de-activates the wi-fi when it's worn for safety. 📶

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9yr ago

@anthilemoon Remind me of the Narrative clip as well, it is a shame that Narrative clip has basically ceased to exist (at least not selling new unit) and most of its competitor in this industry are either busted or didn't even make it to production.

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9yr ago

Benjamin Button

Maker

@jimbb unlike today on the market present life-logging cameras Benjamin is the only camera that you can put on your child. We really believe that in combination with digital platform for editing and sharing family video the product finds it way to households.

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9yr ago

ntwrk

I backed the Narrative Clip and used it for a bit. Got some interesting photos and videos out of hikes and weddings and stuff. Really sad to see them shut it down. Can't help but be cautious about this having the same fate.

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9yr ago

Benjamin Button

Maker

@joshuapinter we were following and using Narrative ourselves, I share the regret. However, based on our user testing we believe that our solution has several differences and the family use case really solves a problem and makes life of parents easier - especially the automatic video editing feature.

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9yr ago

Stream Chat

Amazing work has been done here. Very well done.

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9yr ago

AppSignals

Looking forward to this.

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9yr ago

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