Tom Tom Announces Their Own Action Camera, The Bandit

The Bandit Action Camera was just unveiled yesterday by GPS maker, Tom Tom. It is equipped with in-camera motion and GPS sensors to automatically find and tag moments based on speed, altitude, G-force, acceleration and heart rate (with separate hart rate sensor).

There is also a a smartphone app that lets you edit your footage directly, add music and overlays of favourite metrics (such as speed) all from the Bandit's built-in media server.

"We took a simple, but radical approach to solving the editing problem," says Slobodan Stanisic, lead engineer, TomTom. "With all existing action cameras you first need to download gigabytes of footage to a powerful PC, a process that can take a long time. Then you need to find the highlights, put together a story and format it. We know this often takes hours. Not with the TomTom Bandit. We have designed a camera where the footage is processed on the camera itself, making the editing process far easier and much faster."

The Tom Tom Bandit Action Camera will be out this Summer, costs £299.99 (approx. $550 Canadian) and includes...

• a wide angle lens
• a 16 MP CCD sensor
• Waterproof (an additional lens cap accessory is required to be waterproof up to 50 meters)
• Video at 1080p30, 1080p60, 720p60, 720p120
• Cinematic at 2.7k30, 4k15
• Native time lapse at 4k30, 1080p30 (various capture intervals)
• Native slow motion at 1080p x2, 720p x4, WVGA x6
• Single and burst photo up to 16MP at 10/s
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Smart and USB3.0 connectivity
• Multiple accessories
• Smartphone app available on iOS only at launch. An Android version of the app will be available soon.