I was looking for pics and video of that interesting old film camera, it was shiny silver, looked kind of like a miniature Airstream trailer mounted atop a handle... you wound it up, held it over your head, pushed the trigger, and it slit-scanned a 360 degree panorama photo onto film. In fact, those cameras looked so unusual that one of them got used as a prop in Ghostbusters 2, they were pretending it was some kind of a ghost scanning tool. I don't know its name, though, and some quick searches aren't turning it up.

There are digital equivalents of that now, which is cool. But a little more poking, and I found this, which I now want very much:

http://mashable.com/2011/10/25/throwable-ball-camera/

Brilliant.