This is the OWLE, an aluminum and silicone case which upgrades the audio and video of your iPhone’s camera. The case comes in a few parts. First, there is the silicone sleeve which protects its delicate body upon insertion to the unibody case, itself milled, MacBook-like, from a single block of metal.
Once ensconced in this safe, easy to hold cocoon, the lens is augmented with a 0.45x wide-angle adapter on the front. This uses a 37mm screw-mount, and any other 37mm-screw lens can be swapped in. The sound gets a boost from a small boom microphone which hooks into the headphone jack, and all four of those corners has a standard tripod thread for steady mounting. Finally, there’s a cold-shoe up top for mounting accessories like continuous lights.
You’ll need an iPhone 3GS to really take advantage, as even with the video-enabling workaround we brought you last week, the camera in the iPhone 3G still sucks. The price of the OWLE is a reasonable $130, which strikes us as fair for what you’re getting.
OWLE iPhone Video/Audio Rig [ThinkGeek]
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