Daily Deal: GT-ZO1 Touchscreen Dashcam
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept
Dashcams can catch some pretty amazing footage. A dashcam in Taiwan captured dramatic and frightening footage of a plane crashing into the river.
Some of the videos posted from Russia show just how crazy drivers and pedestrians can be. But sometimes these dashcams can also capture some awe-inspiring moments, like when the Chelyabinsk meteor exploded over the Ural Mountains in February 2013:
Today’s Daily Deal on the GT-ZO1 Touchscreen Dashcam could be what you need to capture your own amazing videos, while also helping to protect yourself from insurance fraud and legal disputes. For $165 (36% off of the original price), you get a compact camera that attaches to the windshield with a suction cup, which can record location, speed, and date information into video clips using the GPS-enabled mapping system. This deal ends soon.
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Comments on “Daily Deal: GT-ZO1 Touchscreen Dashcam”
Kinda Tacky
I dunno guys… It’s kinda tacky to use a tragedy to hawk your goods. Just saying…
Re: Kinda Tacky
Agreed. But still, have you noticed how HARD it is to find a feel-good, heart-warming news story involving dashcam footage?
Re: Kinda Tacky
“It’s kinda tacky to use a tragedy to hawk your goods”
But at least it’s better than making bogus product claims. The good news is that the Techdirt Sales Corps is listening, and this comment will hopefully be taken into account, as these sales pitches continue to evolve into something that’s effective at moving product without treading too painfully on people’s sensibilities — or insulting their intelligence.
One issue that might get Techdirt into trouble is the use of embedded YouTube videos on a dedicated sales page. Per YouTube’s Terms of Service:
https://www.youtube.com/t/terms
That’s not to imply that these embedded videos would necessarily violate YouTube’s TOS, or to suggest that Techdirt likely never received permission from YouTube for such use. Or if Youtube even cares to enforce such policies. But it would be nice to know before YouTube’s legal team were to introduce themselves.
Not sure I like the location, etc. Time stamp sure, but would rather have a simple recording device. One that I could detach and rotate easily.
“Passenger Jet Hits Bridge”, but it has propellers…
I think I would like one of these, but no where can I find the medium it records to. A micro SD card of up to xxxGB size? Internal storage of only 512MB?
Specs would be nice
Would be nice if the product page actually said how much storage it has, what format, etc.
You too can capture tragic events in HD.
Using a recent tragic event to sell dashcams is bad, its the kind of story i would expect to see on Techdirt not about Techdirt.
Re: You too can capture tragic events in HD.
“Using a recent tragic event to sell dashcams is bad, its the kind of story i would expect to see on Techdirt not about Techdirt.”
A high percentage of Tim Cushing’s stories are about police violence, often of the lethal type, most of which would not even be stories if not for video cameras being around to capture the action. So video cameras certainly fit in with Techdirt’s “theme” — even though this ad misses the mark somewhat. While the showing of a plane wreck serves little purpose other than shock value, video of police brutality serves an important function of immense benefit to society.
Just as another Techdirt writer, Michael Ho, is now including a plug for Techdirt’s online shop in the closing of all his articles, maybe Tim Cushing could do likewise. Perhaps something like this …