Glif Too Stiff? Orbit Also Allows (i)Phone Users to Do More with Less
Posted in: UncategorizedLoyal Core readers know we’ve given Dan and Tom of Studio Neat quite a bit of exposure, ever since they surpassed their funding goal for the Glif – iPhone 4 Tripod & Stand over ten times over.
San Francisco designers Jon Norton and Joe Molinari hope to challenge the Glif’s wildly-successful-Kickstarted-multipurpose-phone-accessory supremacy with Orbit, which they’re billing as “truly the simplest device allowing you to make the most of your cell phone, iPod (and soon the iPad as well!) by giving you the ability to stick your device practically anywhere, and leaving your hands free to be more productive.”
The design is quite brilliant: a pair of suction cups—one for “anything that’s iPhone-ish in size and weight,” the other for “practically any surface”—that swivel around a simple ball-and-socket joint. For those pesky porous surfaces, the Orbit includes ” clear repositionable polycarbonate discs that can be stuck on to most non glass-like surfaces giving you the capability to mount your device to a painted wall, wood surface, your dashboard or practically anywhere you can think of.”
The ball-and-socket joint is, of course, a prime example of biomimicry—think hips—which enables rotation across multiple axes.
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