For those who can’t be bothered with a DIY kitchen timer tripod (and I’m one of you), now you can just go ahead and buy one: the Camalapse, from Camarush, does the trick with an adorable egg timer.
I can visualise several uses for this laptop tripod stand from Thanko: bedside movie watching; displaying online sheet music for trombonists; PC/camera tethering. Or, my ideal usage – watching Entourage episodes while in the bathtub.
Four years in the making, the Acadalus tripod head uses motors and an inclinometer to relieve you of fiddling and make sure your shots are absolutely, positively straight. Of course, that perspectival perfection comes at a price: $US5000.
If you are enough of a badass to wield this ice axe monopod in earnestness, you are enough of a badass to put a big boy’s camera on top. Right Ashton? [Instructables]
