Pivothead 1080 HD 8MP Video Recording Camera Polarized Hand-Free Sunglasses, Durango Glacier Blue

I purchased these glasses in July of 2013 from Amazon. They are definitely a luxury item, but they perform very well overall.Pros:Picture and video quality is outstanding.You can get some really unique video with these. I wore them while dove hunting and the POV aspect was really really cool. They are also great for capturing memories of my children from my perspective. The kids don't "act" differently as they would if I was holding a camcorder so you can get some great video of natural interactions.Cons:As other reviewers have mentioned, the auto shutoff is a pain. Also, the autofocus generally works well, however when there are multiple objects in the foreground and at a distance the glasses don't always focus where I was intending and the lack of image stabilization can cause the video to sway a good bit when riding in a car. Finally, the glasses aren't waterproof and I'm concerned about using them when I know i'm going to be sweating a lot (on my road bike for example), I wish they were sealed up and sweat proof which would make them more useful for action sports.Quality/Warranty:I had a issue after about 6 months of casual use where the glasses would no longer recognize that they were plugged into a USB port. I couldn't pull video or images off the glasses and I could not get the glasses to charge. I contacted Pivothead support and they were outstanding. I shipped the glasses back, and they were able to replicate the problem so they shipped me a replacement pair of glasses within two days. I was impressed that the company stood behind their product.Overall I've been very happy with this purchase.

These glasses are wonderful. They fit just right on my face and function perfectly. I wish the battery life was longer. See my list of pros / cons.PROS:-1080P 8Meg picture and video quality. Beautiful stills and video.-Feel like regular glasses. Sit and wear nicely. Can ignore the camera feature all together honestly.-Discrete cameraCONS:-With higher quality images comes lower battery life (obvious one). On full settings the batteries last about an hour.-Standby shutdown: this device shuts down too quickly when in "standby" (on but not recording etc). Wait times are about two minutes, which is too short.-Indicator lights: Annoying when charging the device in my room at night. Useless when the pair of glasses are on my head. If I am in standby mode and I click to record / take a photo I will have no idea if it happened unless I move the glasses off my head slightly. Being forced to check each time sort of removes the purpose of getting them. Also I have no idea if I am still recording after an extended period of time without removing the glasses to see lights blinking.-Battery life: poor at best, but it is what it is-Memory: 8GB isn't much. Pivothead sells a device to offload data on the fly but I haven't tried it yet. ($99 price tag for this)-Audio: choppy at times, doesn't handle windy situations well (obvious).

So this thing records great quality. I unfortunately had a set that worked great until they started to only turn on when they wanted to. The fit is a bit tight towards the temple. The heat sink side isn't as bad a everyone States. It's bearable by all means. Bunch of princesses.All in all its a good camera and great product for the price. If they were more comfortable I'd rate it higher. I could only wear them for 45 min tips till I needed a temple break.I used them for work. All LEO's these are by far better than those stupid clip on shirt cheapys. My rating is specifically LEO used and reviewed.

Not as good as I thought they would be...even though they can shoot 1080p @60fps the quality is so-so...it must be due to the small, cheap sensor in them.....would not spend $300 on them again

I had all sorts of problems with the software and couldn't get them to work. Something was wrong with them.

I would've given this more stars, but for $300 I expect something to work very well and consistently. When I got these out of the box and used them for the first few times, it worked beautifully. It comes with software so you can adjust all kinds of settings (and there are a lot of options!).I have found these glasses to be especially useful for doing youtube tutorials where I need to show people what I'm doing with my hands. For example, I recently did a knitting tutorial. It's also great because it's hands free. I originally got these so I could record conversations with Mormon and Jehovah's Witness missionaries and possibly for recording public pranks. I haven't had the opportunity to do that yet, but I have worn them out in public a few times, and people don't seem to notice that there's a camera in there, which is good.They suck for biking, though, for a couple of reasons. First, because if you road bike like I do, it just records the front of your tire and the road. When you're bent over like that, your head is down, and your eyes are up, but the camera doesn't follow your eyes; it only follows your head. Another reason it sucks for bike riding is that any wind at all creates a lot of noise in the microphone. I've heard that could be fixed by gluing a small piece of foam over the microphone, but I haven't tried it. Don't put glue in the microphone hole! Just put it around it.The first problem I had with these glasses is that I thought I was recording video, but it stopped without me knowing it. The reason it stopped was because my memory was full. That was quite a shock because I had deleted all my video clips. I couldn't understand why it was still showing full. After some searching around, I discovered what the problem was. It turns out that if you try to delete your files from the glasses, it doesn't really delete them. It creates an invisible trash folder on the glasses and puts the deleted files in there. To fix that, you have to change the settings on your computer to show hidden files and folders. Then you have to delete the files from the hidden trash folder. Then, with the glasses still hooked up to the computer, you have to empty the trash folder on your computer. That's the only way to delete your files from the glasses. It's a pain in the arse, and Pivothead ought to fix that.Another problem I'm having that's even MORE annoying because I haven't been able to find a fix for it yet is that the sound frequently cuts out. Half of my videos are fine, but randomly, other ones will have the sound cut in and out. It's as if the microphone is sound activated, because it seems to always cut out the beginning of my words or sentences, as if when I begin to speak, the microphone comes back on. This is quite annoying because I don't know the problem is happening until I transfer the videos to my computer. If I'm doing a tutorial, it's too late. I can't always go back and redo something. I don't know if other people are having this problem or not because, like I said, I haven't been able to find anything out about it. If I can't find a solution for this, I'm going to try to send them back and either get a refund or a replacement. We'll find out how good the customer service is.One more complaint I have is that there's no detailed owner's manual, neither in hard copy, nor in PDF. They'll send you a Quick Start Guide, but there's not nearly enough information, especially about trouble shooting and all the various LED light combinations. To find out more information, you have to do google searches or searches on the Pivothead web site, or browse through their FAQ. A lot of their information (e.g. what the LED lights mean) are contained in YouTube videos. So, let's say you've got something like a solid red light and a blinking blue light, and you want to know what that means. Well, you have to sit through this really annoying video of this guy who sounds like he's spaced out on drugs drone on and on about various combinations of lights before he gets to the one you're looking for when it would be so much easier if it were written somewhere, and you could just skip ahead to the one you're looking for. It would be great if all this information was in one manual with a well-organized table of contents and an index.Another problem, which other people have mentioned, is that the glasses only stay in stand by mode for a short amount of time. So if you want to stop recording video, then start recording again, you've got to take your glasses off first to make sure they're on. Otherwise, you don't know whether you're recording video or not. There ought to be an option in the software to choose how much time you want the glasses to stay in stand by mode. Or just disable the automatic shut off altogether. Granted, leaving it in stand by mode runs down the battery, but people ought to be able to decide whether they're willing to give up a little battery life for extra convenience elsewhere.I hate to end on a sour note, so let me say that the video quality is really good, and I have no trouble editing video either with iMovie on my Mac or with Windows Movie Maker on my PC. It also does a fairly good job of adjusting when light conditions change, and for automatically focusing for close up recording and long distance recording. It has settings to do these things automatically or to have it set to record one way or another. Like I said earlier, there are lots of options.It also allows you to snap still pictures even while you're in the middle of recording video. And if you want, you can have it snap three pictures in a row just by hitting the button once. That way, if you're taking an action photo, you can choose any of the three shots. And you can adjust the amount of time between shots, too. It's really great. I love these glasses except for the problems I mentioned above.