I poke fun at the OTTO because of its hipster design sensibilities, but with a 96×96 top-mounted OLED display for reviewing photos, and a 35mm f/2.0 lens plus the amazing tricks it can manage, it’s actually a very impressive little piece of hackable photo hardware. Potential accessories include the FlashFlash, an Arduino-powered flash bulb with some basic robotic vision tricks that let you trigger the camera as soon as it detects a specific action, like a totally badass high-five. You can also add different hardware functions to OTTO, thanks to its USB plug. It’s also the first commercial product built on Raspberry Pi, and it’s designed to be hackable and extensible by just about everyone as a result.

You can use the companion app on your smartphone to choose from among different modes, including GIF capture, time-lapse, photo booth tricks and filters, and even user-generated modes that are available in a community library. The camera is more than just a GIF maker, however. It’s aiming to ship in December, so I give it two months max after that before it graces Urban Outfitters’ store shelves. It uses a hand-crank to do it, and comes in a brightly colored, vaguely retro design, and is basically the most hipster creation of all time. Most cameras take either photo, video or both – but the OTTO, a new Kickstarter project, is a piece of dedicated hardware that actually captures animated GIFs.

Gif camera