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iBlazr 2 – Flash for Android & iOS Will Improve Your Photos

By on July 11, 2015 in blinking lights, gadgets, general geekery, kickstarter, photography

Screen Shot 2015-07-11 at 7.58.58 PMThe folks at iBlazr have come out with the second iteration of their external flash for Android and iOS devices.

The 300 LUX flash can be placed on your device for selfies or for your back-facing camera to greatly improve the quality of your photos – especially those taken in low or artificial light.

Unlike other 3rd party flashes that require you use the device’s app in order to work, iBlazr will work with any of your photo apps.

While you have the freedom to use your other photo apps, iBlazr’s companion app, Shotlight, gives you extra control over exposure, white balance, focus and ISO.

The iBlazr 2 is a Kickstarter campaign with just 5 days to go and has raised nearly triple their funding goal. Their original iBlazr was another successful Kickstarter campaign and they’re using the crowdfunding platform to finance the production of the new and improved version of their successful light.

Check out the video before for more details on this Bluetooth enabled flash.

You can follow iBlazr on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube, Flickr, Instagram, VK (a European social network with 100 million users) and their website.

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The Hyperloop Could be Just Two Years From Completion = You Traveling from LA to NY in 45 Minutes

By on July 10, 2015 in future tech, general geekery, science, transportation
You in a tube. Going at 800 mph.

You in a tube. Going at 800 mph. Photo: Tesla Motors

You may have seen some buzz on Twitter and all along the interwebs 🙂 about this fantasy Hyperloop idea by billionaire Elon Musk. Musk is no newcomer to big things. He’s the founder of such enterprises as PayPal, SpaceX and Tesla Motors, among others. The Hyperloop idea may have been a little too daunting for most skeptics at fir to launch at first, but German entrepreneur, Dirk Ahlborn, is about to make it really happen. Using glass tubes (seems a tad vulnerable – just saying), cylindrical pods would transport people and potentially commercial cargo, at speeds approaching nearly 800 mph. How? Using low-pressure cabins (like an airplane at high altitudes) along with a vacuum sealed tube in which to travel in, results in minimal inertia. While professional race cars may reach pressures of 4G in some cases, occupants of the Hyperloop pods would be experiencing 1G – just like a bus ride, essentially… making a trip from Los Angeles to New York only about 45 minutes. That doesn’t include the security, check in and other delays of travel, of course. The video below gives a pretty good overview of how they realistically believe they can have some operational travel happening in about two years thanks to crowdsourcing.