(CNN) -- Twenty-five year-old student Greg Dash was frustrated. He wanted to take "fisheye"-style camera pictures without having to pay for an expensive lens, or fiddle around with a smartphone app. He wanted something light and small that he could pull from his pocket at a moment's notice. Unfortunately such a device did not exist. So, he went ahead and invented it. Measuring just four centimeters long and two centimeters high, the "Little Cyclops" has only two buttons and no viewing screen. However, an array of nifty features -- including a timelapse mode, 12 megapixel resolution and HD video recording capabilities -- have proven so popular with photography enthusiasts that the camera easily surpassed its funding target on the crowdsourcing website, Indiegogo.
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A Welsh student has invented a key-ring sized digital fisheye camera
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The Little Cyclops measures in at just 4cm long and 2cm high
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Inventor Greg Dash only plans to release 1,000 of the devices before moving on to other products
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