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Showing the true British inventors’ spirit, Tom Lawton’s BubbleScope is able to clip onto your smartphone and capture high-resolution 360-degree images instantly. And now there’s an iPhone app to control the camera and show off your super-panoramic pics to your friends.
The BubbleScope is a small lollypop looking thing that strongly reminds me of a PlayStation Move controller. Instead of letting you flail around like a fool, the BubbleScope attaches to your smartphone hooking in with its camera allowing you to shoot fantastic true 360-degree panoramas and “surround” video. The recently released app will let you take your creative shots on the road with you, just like you can the BubbleScope itself. It also gives you the option to preview your stills and video before you shoot, as well as set-up some hands-free shooting using timers.
The two together make an impressive panoramic shooting solution without the reduced resolution, stitching and post-processing normally associated with these kinds of things — something that’s always killed the mood for me whenever I’ve had photographic inspiration strike. The app’s free from the App Store right now and the BubbleScope itself will set you back £60 and will be available from Firebox in the near future.
Was this on Kickstart?
Nope, there have been similar products on Kickstarter but this is a British innovation of the past ten years http://tomlawton.com/inventions/bubblescope and sadly Kickstarter is a closed shop to innovation outside the US
Trigger trap used kickstarter but also had a UK inventor..
Then his team were based in the US because KS clearly state you must be a permanent US resident. I know this because we approached them over a year ago to try and get BubbleScope on – but they declined.
http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/creating%20a%20project#AmIEligToStarAKickProj
Nope. Just helps to know or have someone close who is american to register the project for you.
Full details below:
http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/01/triggertrap-the-story/
So every panorama comes with the users face in a too close for comfort fashion?
It’s got a timer, so you don’t have to be right up against it. Or you could hold it above your head I guess.
Yeah, Sam is right. There is a mode where the phone and user can be completely removed from the scene – so there’s stacks of creative freedom with it – it also self stands so you can use the timer or shoot video hands free. Or you can shoot bubbles with your face up close like Suzi Perry & gang did on the Gadget Show http://www.bubblescope.com/examples/bubble20.html
BubbleScope shoots high-res 360 stills and video – here are examples http://www.bubblescope.com/examples/index.html