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Touted as the world’s smartest 4K camera, the Revl Arc is the first action cam to feature built-in stabilization. Considering that this could only be achieved with external gimbals, it’s a pretty major step forward.
Even though most sports aren’t characterized by fluid movements, that doesn’t mean that the video recordings have to be that way, too. Thanks to the Revl Arc, the world’s first action camera with built-in image stabilization, you can say goodbye to shaky footage of you and your friends skydiving, rollerskating or water-skiing. The Arc isn’t the first sports camera to take on GoPro, but the ION Air Pro and the Contour, two of cameras that tried doing that, have been long since forgotten. Of course, those two didn’t pack an ace up the sleeve, like the Arc does.
The Arc has a tube-shaped design and the end of which it features a motorized gimbal based on magnets and a motor that bring stabilization to the camera. Basically, the back of the Arc moves in tandem with whatever the camera is attached to, while the front remains level.
Eric Sanchez, Revl’s founder, pointed out that the whole thing started out as a stabilized GoPro case, until the company realized that integrating the technology into an action cam would be a far better choice.
The 12-megapixel image sensor made by Sony is one of the details that make the Arc stand out even if you take built-in stabilization out of the equation. In terms of video resolutions and framerates, the Arc can record 4K footage at 30 fps, 1080p videos at up to 120 fps and 720p clips at up to 240 fps. That’s great for shooting slow-motion videos, which should make the footage even more spectacular.
Revl’s Arc can even be attached to a selfie-stick, in case you don’t want to mount it on a helmet or on a chest strap. As seen in the following video, footage shot while using a selfie stick looks particularly great, as long as you don’t suffer from motion sickness. Beside that, the following clip features some of the situations that bring out the benefits of built-in image and video stabilization.
The Arc action cam is currently the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo. Revl has set a funding goal of $50,000, but that has long been surpassed, and there still are 16 more days till the campaign ends. The camera will retail for $500 when it will hit the market, but early birds can get it for as little as $379. To get the King of the Air bundle, which as its name suggests, includes a bunch of accessories for skydiving enthusiasts, you’d have to pay $479, which is still less than what the camera will retail for. Bear in mind that these prices don’t include shipping.
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Although 3D printing has just picked up, there are quite a few 3D printed bicycle designs out there. None, however, are made of steel. None of them also look as beautiful as the Arc Bike. Created by the students at TU Delft, based in The Netherlands, the Arc bike has an intricately detailed bike frame made to look like it was woven, rather than printed. You really need to watch the video below to see what goes into creating this work of art, or should I say work of Arc!
Why should a faucet for drinking water look the same as the faucet in your bathroom or garden? Here’s a defiant and different design for a faucet meant to celebrate water as the ‘Elixir of Life’.
Designer Seungwoo Kim takes an avant-garde design approach to create a truly unique faucet, bespoke for drinking. I personally like the way the faucet visually creates a shield around the water. Don’t you?
Music sharing has increasingly become a way to make new friends and stay in touch but headphones on the market today are generally designed for people to listen to music in isolation. This gives room for innovative headphones like the Wearhaus Arc to disrupt the headphone landscape. What make them stand out are two key features: sharing music in sync via a Bluetooth network and expressing music through colors.
It seemed an easy path to continue with the safety net of a Berkeley engineering degree, however dropouts Richie Zeng and Nelson Zhang thought it best to invest their time and energy focusing on their passion for music and developing hardware products. Their shared craze for music paved the way for designing the Wearhaus Arc, sleek wireless headphones that reinvent social music listening.
The Arc is all about you. Your style, your personality, and the music you love. Primarily in white or black, you can customize the light ring of the headphones from the app, and let your true colors shine!
Using the Wearhaus app (iOS or Android), you can see what people around you are listening to, join them in real time, or broadcast your own playlist. As seen in the video, this can help forge new friendships and discover shared interests!
Wearhaus Arc uses Bluetooth technology to seamlessly sync multiple users’ headphones, but the team wants Arc to be the best Bluetooth headphones on the market, regardless whether they want to use the syncing functionality or not. Richie says that they’ve been working to ensure that the headphones have top-notch sound quality, and will continue collaborating with their manufacturer over the summer to develop a durable, lightweight, and comfortable product.
Each earcup features an iconic, ring-shaped backlight that can be set to any color via the mobile app.
When other people tune in to your music, their lights pulse with the same color – a visual cue to tell who’s listening with you.
A capacitive touch panel allows you to easily control volume, playback, and sharing with simple gestures.
As Nelson puts it, originally, headphones were just tools for channeling audio and now they have becoming more and more about good design and self-expression. With Arc, the team wanted to take that creative, personal aspect to the next level.
The first batch of Wearhaus Arcs is expected to ship by this holiday season. It is available for a special backer’s price of $150 that is on offer until early June, but pre-orders will remain open afterwards at the full $200 retail value. You can get yours here.
What we love about the creative duo is that they have taken the initiative to Crowdfund their project on their own platform. No external host! They considered it a priority to to control the design of their site to tell their brand story in the most effective way.
Designers: Nelson Zhang and Richie Zeng [ Preorder Here ]
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So we've already spent some hands-on time with Kobo's Aura e-reader and the Arc 10HD. That leaves two more devices, right? Well, here's the thing -- as much as the 10-inch tablet wasn't ready in time for tonight's event, the company at least managed to trot it out. As for the seven-inchers, well, the Arc 7HD didn't show, and while the Arc 7 was here, the slate was running a constant demo, meaning we couldn't take it through its paces. As for the hardware? On the face of it, the tablet looks a fair bit like the original Kindle Fire and a number of other seven-inch rectangular tablets. On the top is the standard red Kobo power button, on the right side of the device is a volume rocker and on the left are the headphone jack, micro-HDMI and microUSB ports.
Like its bigger brother, the soft touch rear of the device has borrowed some of the angular design language from the Aura HD around the corners. On the bottom, you'll find a single speaker grille. All three of Kobo's new tablets are set to launch on October 16th -- we're sure we'll be able to spend a bit more time with this guy before then. When it does land, it'll run you $150, with its HD sibling starting at $200.%Gallery-slideshow73876%
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