New sunglasses with built-in camera and MP3-player

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Monday, June 9th, 2008

Today accessory maker Otas unveiled its newest product, the so-called aigo Camera sunglasses MP3 F566+.

The glasses come with a 1.3 megapixel camera, an MP3-player, 2 GB of internal memory, a USB port and a wireless remote control. The device weighs just 45 grams.

Otas says the internal memory is enough to store up to 20,000 photographs. The highest picture quality possible is 1280×1024. Music files in MP3 or WMA formats are supported. According to the manufacturer, 2 hours of charging is enough for 6 hours of music playback.

Priced at $120, the sunglasses are available in Japan.

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