SINGAPORE (Team Geared Up) - I watch Russell Davies blog for my interest in mobile technology and was pleased to see this little expedition of his. On his first (and last?) ascent of Ben Nevis he strapped Nokia N95 to his chest strap on his rucksack and set it to post live photos & GPS location to the internet every minute.

On the way up it worked for precisely three minutes. But, on the way down it worked for a bit longer, so this video is about an hour of descent from the top of Ben Nevis, compressed into a minute, down to about 1000m, where it stopped working. Not sure why. I like it though, it works as proof of concept. I’m not sure what the concept is exactly, but it’s proved.

Watch Video:

a bit of a descent of ben nevis from russelldavies on Vimeo.

The Flickr set of photos is worth looking at too.

Quirky, but a nice project.

-Robin

(Image Credit: Russell Davies Flickr Set)

LONDON, UK (team Geared Up) - With such a good response to our top 5 mountain biking & snowboard crashes we’re going to continue the series! Today we look at the top 5 helmet-cam (head mounted camera) videos.

5th Place, skiing down the longest escalator in Europe (Angle Tube Station, London)…

4th Place, dropping down some big waterfalls in a kayak…

3rd Place, Red Bull Boys ride down through the inside of a skyscraper (inc crash)…

2nd Place, Speed Riding Down the Eiger…

And in 1st Place, and deservedly so…

-Robin-

(Image Credit: By the Author)