It might be waterproof to 30m, but TAT7′s iPhone Scuba Case only includes three strategically-placed mechanical buttons for launching and operating the default camera app. So updating your Facebook profile from Davy Jones’ locker isn’t going to happen.
A lot of Kickstarter projects are launched with little more than an idea and a mockup, but the tentatively named FourPro iPhone underwater housing was field tested while filming great white sharks. So I think it’s already proven itself.
Every year, the US government gives scientists money that they use for amazingly cool things, like building robots that dive to extreme underwater depth and record video like this.
Thanks to funding from taxpayers and philanthropists (and, of course the internet, which come to think of it also launched as a government program), you can sit on your couch in your underwear and watch magma flow deep under the sea.
It sounds like an incredibly easy way to get onto ASIO’s watch list, but a Dutch company is offering something a little different to the regular, run of the mill boat hire options. They’ll rent you a two or three person submersible for “Global Charter”.
