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Surely there must be some budding smartphone auteur out there who needs to invest deeply in the feature-length film they’re shooting on their iPhone 4. For anyone else, Zacuto’s Z-Grip iPhone Cinema Kit might be a bit excessive. More »
Despite looking like a homemade engineering marvel, there is next to no information about this 4star Formula 1 Simulator. Which sucks, because it looks fantastic. More »
OK, sure, that Winnie the Pooh iBook looks pretty slick. But what about all of those real books that are gathering dust on your real bookshelf? Well, with this Instructable, those can become (slightly less slick) ebooks, too. More »
Camera stabilisation rig maker Steadicam-Tiffen is making its first anti-shake mounts for mobile phones and pocket cameras, including the iPhone, Droid and Flip. I say it’s about damn time for it because I’m tired of shaky mobile phone spy videos. More »
The latest dSLRs shoot excellent HD video, as long as you don’t mind the shakiness. Redrock, who released some of the first pro solutions to this problem, have just announced a product that’s downright buyable.
If you liked our awesome computer rig contest, you will like Mitch Haile’s clean but sensory overload workplace, with a total of eight displays. To me it’s not as good as my favourite, the Death Star battle station, but that may be because I imagine it is a lot more comfortable to do visual work. And yes, with visual work I mean watching porn. Still, the gallery is impressive.
It’s not what I would call a Bond-calibre flipping licence plate, but the system that a Queens truck driver hooked up in his rig is chock-full of ghetto ingenuity. Apparently, Orlando Payano mounted his licence plate on a hinged piece of metal then ran an attached cable through his cigarette lighter. When he went through a toll booth, all he had to do is pull the cord and abracadabra! No licence plate caught on camera.
Here are the top three rigs in the Best Computer Rig Contest. The winner: Steve Larson for his Nebuchadnezzar-like overloaded cockpit. Jump to see the three mega-galleries, which show just how cool the winning rigs are. After seeing all the details, my personal winner is Dlinc. His rig, with Transformers-style, fully-articulated rotatable monitors and keyboards, is absolutely stunning and the most useful of them all.
