The Gorillapod

I've had my eye on this for a while now, and just this week, I spotted it at Harvey Norman for $34.95. The gorillapod! What a beauty.

So what is it? Basically, it's an extremely versatile tripod. It's made of about 30 fully articulating ball and socket joints, with soft rubber rings around each one and rubber feet. This means that it can be mounted onto basically any surface, or from any thing that it can cling on! The original version was made for light-weight digital cameras, but there are heavy-duty ones for SLRs too.

The main things I'm gonna be using the gorillapod for is for taking timer photos from almost anywhere without having to ask a stranger to take the shot, and possibly for more timelapse videography from cool positions. Here are some pictures (taken by my phone) of my gorillapod in action:

And here are some of the results:

Check out its website for more details. I highly recommend it!