There’s a new photo/video app on the scene, and while it has a very interesting concept, it also has a rather curious bunch of flaws. href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/glmps/id452548312?mt=8">Glmps — pronounced Glimpse (*sigh*-Ed) — is a free iPhone app that runs quietly in the background the entire time, buffering video. When you snap a picture, it actually records a 5-second video run as well, creating a little animation to accompany the photograph.
The concept isn’t a new one, compact cameras have been doing this for years — I remember Casio has had something similar for their high-speed point-and-shoots for some time.
So, what’s the problem? According to href="http://allthingsd.com/20110804/new-iphone-app-aims-to-offer-a-glimpse-beyond-the-still-photo/">AllThingsD, it’s a huge battery drain, you can only upload the files to their service, and there are no privacy settings — that’s right, everything’s public. Hopefully they’ll fix that in the near future.
The files are embeddable via Flash, and I’ve tried linking one below, but there servers are pretty hosed right now, so they’re not always showing up./> id="Glmps" width="400" height="400" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0">name="quality" value="high" />name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />name="allowfullscreen" value="false" />name="flashvars" value="glmpsPath=&imagePath=&glmpsId=0Xf2OHC7&autoPlay=false" />name="src" value="http://glmps.com/glmpsPlayer/Glmps.007.swf" />id="Glmps" width="400" height="400" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://glmps.com/glmpsPlayer/Glmps.007.swf" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="false" flashvars="glmpsPath=&imagePath=&glmpsId=0Xf2OHC7&autoPlay=false" />
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