I would suppose it can be quite the liberating experience if you have been lugging around a DSLR for the longest time, that you forgot just how it felt like to carry around a small, compact camera to shoot your photos. Well, here is something that might just shock you out of your boots – we’re talking about what is touted to be the World’s Smallest Camera, where it is no larger than your fingertip.

Yes sir, it measures just more than an inch in all dimensions, tipping the scales at half an ounce as if it is meant for those who have Lilliputian dexterity. Despite the unusually small size, it is said that a human finger is able to snap a photo using but a touch of the shutter button.

Don’t expect high quality images from this model though, since it sports a mere 2-megapixel image sensor which is capable of shooting crisp JPEG photographs at 1600 x 1200 resolution, while video is recorded in the AVI format at 30 frames-per-second with 640 x 480 resolution. All images and video are stashed away onto a 2GB microSD memory card, and you can always hook it up to a computer via USB for data transfer later on. The price for the World’s Smallest Camera? $99.95 a pop. Reasonable enough for you? I’m afraid it is way too small for me to keep as I tend to lose things all the time, and with no option for manual controls, this is but a novelty purchase.

While I’ve spotted this on Hammacher’s site for a while now (definitely not a year), it is strange to see it being announced in a press release in the middle of nowhere.