14 DAY TRIAL // Ideas crop up all the time, and most of them have to go on the back burner for months or years. The ones who get them can become afraid they'd have said ideas stolen though, which is why the patent system exists.
Many lawsuits have been fought, and are being fought, over patents, but there are times when the patent office helps.
Like now. Olympus has patented a new, modular, wearable camera, and because patents are public the information made the news.
The patent is called “Camera and Wearable Image Display Apparatus” and describes a monocle display that is wirelessly connected to a camera body.
Image previews and review modes can be switched through on it.
Basically, it's a way to make snap shots of anything you're looking at at any given time, only without having augmented reality glasses like Google Glass.