Smartphones are the cameras we always carry in our pockets, so why not augment them for more variety, facility and creativity? That’s the idea behind Lensbaby’s newly released Creative Mobile Kit, which includes two new clip-on lenses: the LM-20 and the LM-30, alongside an iPhone mobile mount and a magnetic kickstand. Lensbaby’s entree into the mobile space began last year with a Kickstarter campaign that launched the Sweet Spot Lens for Mobile (LM-10), the company’s first lens for mobile devices. The LM-10 creates images with a small focused ‘sweet spot’ surrounded by accelerating blur. Shot with a Lensbaby LM-20 The LM-20 features Lensbaby’s center sweet…
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The government of Vladimir Putin has issued a public guide on safe selfies. I was at first tempted to dismiss this as some kind of joke, except accidental death — even from carelessness, stupidity or intoxication — is no laughing matter. No one should die for the sake of a selfie. It so happens that the government of Russia and I see eye-to eye on this issue, if perhaps nothing else, and it has launched a new safe selfie campaign complete with a handy pictured guide of the most obvious situations in which no one should be shooting pictures of themselves. Russia’s Ministry…
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Owners of iOS devices, rejoice: Sharing pins with your friends will now get a little easier. An update from Google Maps now allows you to share your location to more apps, including Facebook and its spun-off communications app Messenger. The new feature, part of Google Maps version 4.8.0, will now make it much easier to send a pin to someone who is on their desktop computer, or who is just too lazy to switch between apps (we all know that person). Users can also broadcast their location to their friends, or target it to a specific group. It does not allow you…
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