12/12/2008

SONY’s so-called “new” Twil N Take [sic] battery-less digital camera is a rehash/relaunch of the ‘Twirl N Take‘ that we covered exactly one year ago. A botched press release with the product name misspelled shows that SONY deserves its continued death spiral to bankruptcy.

Dec. 11, 2008 – A FP—Daylife…Sony displays a new battery-less digital camera “Twil N Take” [sic] in Tokyo … environmentally friendly products at the annual Eco Style Fair.

Sony unveiled this first—a digital camera without batteries and which charges by rolling its green wheel for about 40 seconds on a flat surface to take a picture with its 3 megapixel CMOS element.
Read the rest of the description of the ‘Twirl N Take’ here in a mega-funky machine translation of the Japanese news story.