What’s not to love about a GoPro camera? Absolutely nothing. At least that’s what you’d think after watching CBS This Morning’s report on GoPro and its founder, Nick Woodman. Woodman has done pretty well with the wearable camera, selling about 800,000 cameras in 2011. And frankly, some of the footage GoPros have captured is every bit as gushworthy is the report would imply. More »
This guy, 87mcmahan87 on YouTube, is one ballsy son of a gun. Just watch this video. He recorded himself zooming around on his motorbike on a super skinny and snowy mountain ridge in Colorado. I almost died watching him balance, teeter and tease fate like a madman. If he slipped up, he would’ve came crashing down to his death. More »
It used to be you had to wait until you got home to enjoy the extreme footage captured by your GoPro camera. But the company is introducing an adorable add-on which adds wi-fi and Bluetooth, letting you stream your exploits to a smartphone app and even control it remotely. It’s an itty-bitty backpack! More »
Rip Curl and TimeSlice Films filmed surfers riding real waves with 30 GoPro HD cameras and created an effect very similar to the Bullet Time sequences in The Matrix. It’s jaw droppingly awesome. More »
We loved our GoPro HD Hero. It was simply the sweetest wearable action camera we’d seen… until now. The brand spankin’ new Hero 2 isn’t dramatically different, they just made everything a lot better. I may never take it off. More »
The remote Wi-Fi-hacking flying drone we covered the other day? Creepy. The concept of setting up a similar drone to follow you around on your mountain biking holiday? Excellent. More »
How do you shoot a music video on a roller coaster? If you’ve got the budget, you could rent the ride for $US6000 per day — double director Jeremy Johnstone’s budget for the entire video shoot. More »
Soon after we first tried the Contour GPS action camera, the company’s “new and improved” Contour+ update sought to address several of our niggling issues. “Bigger lens!” they said. “Better audio!” Would they deliver the goods? Or was it all just marketing wizardry? Watch our snow video comparison. More »
A curious father strapped a GoPro camera onto his daughter’s head to see what her life was like. Unsurprisingly (or surprisingly!), it was completely random, sometimes shrieky, borderline drunk, mostly unbalanced but oh so incredibly fun. More »
