Hasta La Gadget!

Joby has expanded its line of plucky, bendy tripods to include one for the iPod Touch. The product can be bought either as a kit with a case and a three-legged stand or – if you already own a Gorillapod – just the case, which hugs the iPod touch snugly in soft-touch plastic with cutouts for the dock connector, the home button and the volume rocker.

The best thing about the Gorillapod is that it is so easy to carry. Throw the flexible, pole-gripping ‘pod into a bag and it takes up almost no room, bending to fit the space like a spare pair of socks. I took a small one away last weekend and foiled my father’s lame attempt to stay out of a family photo by whipping the little tripod out and quickly setting up my Panasonic GF1, while my dad was still huffing and pretending he couldn’t find the self timer on my mother’s camera.

The iPod Touch version isn’t for taking photos of course, but it’ll prop the iPod up nicely for watching movies. And if you buy the kit, you get all the tripod screw and sticky-pad accessories to use with your camera. Better still, at $35 it’s only $5 more than the basic version. $35, or $20 for the case on its own.

Gorillapod for iPod Touch [Joby. Thanks, Mark!]

See Also:

• Gorillapod Go-Go: Miniature, Flexible Tripod
• Hands-On With the Joby Gorilla Mobile
• Joby Announces 'New' Gorillamobile Cellphone Tripod