Snapzoom: accessory to connect the smartphone to binoculars and telescopes

"Two friends surfers have thought an accessory to combine the resilience of products such as the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S4 or HTC One of those magnifying their binoculars"

Always in constant growth trend that indicates how the modern smartphones are used as cameras and camcorders. If it is true that the quality has gone very quickly rising in recent years is undeniable, however, as between the camera features of the smartphone one of the most painful result probably notes the impossibility of using different focal lens from the built-in phone (excluding the digital zoom of course).

Fujikake and Mac Daniel Nguyen, Two surfers friends residing in the United States, you are indeed endeavored to use their device to recover during their enterprises in the waves, without having to buy additional optics are specific to a particular model of smartphone.

The idea that ensued is Snapzoom, it is essentially an accessory able to position and fix the goal of any smartphone (iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, HTC One, but also smartphones lower range) in front of the eyepiece of binoculars , spotting scopes and telescopes. In this way, of course you get an optical magnification equal to that of the group which is capable of lenses placed in front of the phone. For now it is a project and the two surfers have made ​​only a few prototype which at first glance does not shine for design, but Daniel Fujikake and Mac Nguyen began to seek the funds necessary for the realization of the product through Kickstarter , succeeded in arousing the ' interest of many.

As we have noted in other cases, we consider interesting to note the continued proliferation of products of this type, which is probably not properly become a must have for most users, but whose increasing is a symptom of a trend that indicates so is (rapidly) changing the way in which today are not only products but also designed photo and video content.