Squito is a new design for a throwable panoramic camera inside a ball. The technology was developed by Steve Hollinger – Boston-based artist and inventor who designed a working model of the Squito and is now looking to use the video above as a way to reach out to manufacturers and developers alike who could help him take the Squito to the next level.
Squito includes several high speed tiny cameras inside a small ball. Using the technology developed by Hollinger the images coming from the ball are stabilized and can also be re-oriented and stitched into a panorama.
Squito is not the first camera ball around – several years ago the Israeli company ODF Optronics developed EyeBall – a small advanced, audio/visual surveillance sensor that can be deployed and operated by a single person. The EyeBall is currently in use in many military and police forces around the world but is relatively expensive and is meant to deliver video images after it has landed and not during its flight.
Hollinger sees consumer and industrial applications for the Squitois including recreation, professional sports, architecture, reconnaissance, search-and-rescue, first responder scene assessment, landscape photography, projectile point-of-view, full spherical capture for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), and 3D mapping applications. Just think about a basketball game shot from the point of view of the ball!
The Squito in mid air
Iddo Genuth 
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