What are you looking for from an action camera? A compact
body? Resilient? Excellent specifications? Or all of them? Regardless of all
the reasons, you still have to spend a lot of time to edit the video results in
order to make an interesting clip.
A new action camera named Graava wants to solve this issue.
Graava doesn't try to compete with the GoPro cam or other action cameras in the
terms of design and specifications, but it wants to offer a practicality.
Graava has a very simple shape, resembling to a pager device
with a 130 degrees lens on one side. Inside this device there is a sensor that
can record 1080p video at 30 fps or 720p at 60 fps. There is no slow-motion
mode here, but there is still time lapse mode that will gather a number of
8-megapixel images into a 4K video.
So far Graava sounds so standard. However, as explained
above, this action camera wants to highlight practicality rather than
specifications. The companion application that's available for Android and iOS
will edit your recordings automatically based on certain moments that deserve
to be saved.
Simply put, you've just come home from the recording session
that took place as long as the Graava battery can last, i.e. 3 hours. From the
total duration of the video: 180 minutes, you can ask the Graava application to
make a short clip, for example a clip that last for about 3-5 minutes, which
contains all the moments that are worth to be watched and will not make you
bored.
Graava and its applications will choose the moments based on
information captured by the sensors, ranging from the accelerometer, gyroscope,
a pair of microphones and GPS. It can even take your heart rate information
from the heart-rate monitor that's connected to it. As a bonus, the Graava
application will also adjust the beat of your favorite tunes with the various
actions on the video.
Graava is actually not the first product that comes up with
this smart idea. Last May, TomTom introduced an action camera with the similar
automatic editing feature. However, the Graava seems simpler and is offered at
a more affordable price.
Graava is now accepting pre-orders via getgraava.com, worth
of $ 249. Its retail price will rise to $ 399. Unfortunately the camera is not
yet ready to be delivered into the hands of consumers until at least on the early
next year.