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Magnetic / detachable lenses suddenly make cellphone cameras fun

by Darren Murph posted Dec 30th 2008 @ 9:37AM

Not that we haven't seen patently absurd lens attachments for mobiles before, but we've yet to come across any that were this universal (and be to honest, this useful). Sure, one could argue that a detachable wide-angle, fisheye or 2x telephoto lens made for a cellphone camera is more likely to do nothing than something, but we prefer to look on the sunny side of things. In other words, it's totally worth $16.99 just to be able to make your subjects pause as you whip out the correct lens for the occasion... which you're photographing on your C905.

[Via OhGizmo]

Is Nokia pondering magnetic ports for some handsets?

by Sean Cooper posted Jan 11th 2008 @ 6:59PM

Some Nokia sets feature similar-sized headset and charging jacks and in an effort to help owners quickly tell them apart -- and prevent potential damage to the handset -- Nokia may have decided on a bit of clever gadgetry to save the day. The idea is dead-simple, one port will be positively magnetized, the other negatively, so if you try to plug in your cables to the wrong place they will repel. Safe and simple, we like it, now if they were able to extend it out to some type of MagSafe charger adapter.

[Via textually.org]