14 DAY TRIAL // Tossing a camera, or really any consumer electronics device, is not advised under any circumstances. Even dropping gadgets by mistake is often fatal for said items.
Some people still do it though, sometime with actual cause.
Camera tossing, for instance, is done often enough that Nikon decided to do something about it.
And by tossing, we mean programming a timed shot and throwing a camera in the air, in the hopes that the lens will be looking our way when the shot goes off, thus imitating a bird's eye view of sorts.
What Nikon plans to do is make camera tossing easier to use. That way, people won't have to try again and again and again just for one good photo.
So far, it has filed a patent that defines how a built-in accelerometer tells the camera when to go off, and even cover the lens and retract the barrel when bracing for the fall.
Odds are nothing will ever come of actually encouraging warranty-voiding moves, but we suppose a patent is still a patent.