When I saw the CineKkates, I thought “Why would you want to put wheels onto a short tripod and wheel your camera around on the ground?” Then I saw the promo video, shot with the CineSkates itself. Check it out:
CineSkates is a Kickstarter project so popular that it achieved its $20,000 goal in a day, and then blew past that up to $141,000 (and counting). It’s simple: a set of three skate wheels attaches to the feet of a GorillaPod Focus, and you twist and bend its jointed legs until the wheels are lined up the way you want them. A ball-head up top lets you set the camera to your preferred angle, and then you start shooting.
The idea is that you now have a tiny, portable dolly for shooting video, only this dolly doesn’t just, erm, dolly along. It lets you perform swoops and curves depending on the angles set for the wheels.
The CineSkates clamp onto the ball-shaped feet of the Joby GorillaPod. There are two parts: The wheel assembly contains the wheels and a bracket, and the clamp section joins this to the tripod. The modular design is there to enable future expansion — robotic wheels and mounts for different tripods are both planned.
You can pick up the CineSkates by pledging $150. The retail price on launch will be $200. Pledge $275 and you get the CineSkates plus the tripod and ballhead, which will go for $350 in stores.
CineSkates [Kickstarter]
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