Enhancing Mobile Photography with the Moment Case

The Seattle mobile phone lens-maker launches a second Kickstarter for a smart shutter button integrated case

Designed to elevate the mobile photography experience to a more professional level, Moment launched with a two-piece lens system on Kickstarter in January 2014, pulling in nearly $500,000 and over nine times their goal. But while their lenses have undoubtedly upped the ante for many photographers, their stand-alone camera app was less inspired. To create a single cohesive platform, today marks the crowd-funding launch of …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

Rick Owens goes full frontal, Microsoft's HoloLens, meditating in a Vegas nightclub and more in our weekly look at the web

1. Krrb Classifieds Nascar meets wheelchair in this polished tire rocker up for grabs on community-based classifieds site Krrb. The chair, named “El Rocker de Las Llantas Muertas” (The Rocker of Dead Tires), has been meticulously hand crafted by Brooklyn-based designer Rodney Allen Trice using various found objects and features two perfectly balanced rubber wheels and a custom steel frame. As explained by Swiss Miss …

Testing Microsoft’s HoloLens

Unlike Google Glass or Oculus Rift, Microsoft’s new HoloLens headset inserts virtual objects into your real-life world. Although the augmented reality glasses are still in their prototype phase, Microsoft gave GigaOm a demo of its four current applications: Holobuilder, Holostudio, Onsight and a HoloLens version of Skype. Each allow for vastly different functionality including 3D modeling, gaming, Mars exploration and video-chatting. HoloLens is slated to …