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Stuff that You Stick on Your iPhone Steadily Getting Bigger

By Rain Noe - February 18, 2011

in Object Culture

If you designed the perfect little rectangle, would you bristle if companies started designing little form-interrupting gewgaws to slap onto it? I guess that's the price you pay for ubiquity. And you can't deny that some of these widgets add good functionality, like the Glif.

And while it looks a bit absurd, PhotoJojo's latest $35 iPhone add-on is a telephoto lens. It gives you 8x zoom, features a manual focus on the lens body, and comes with a stabilizing tripod.

Prior to the telephoto lens, PhotoJojo kicked off the camera-add-on thing with their FishEye, Macro and Wide Angle cameraphone lenses:

More recently, Square made the credit-card slider add-on, turning you into a self-contained retail operation:

The GoBiz i-Microphone runs $25 and will reportedly boost recordings by 12 decibels. Plugs right into the headphone jack and uses RF shielding to block interference and feedback:

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Jonas Pijnenburg

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I've got the fisheye lens for my motorola milestone (droid in US). I Really love it. It's working great, and i've been making some fun photos.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v327/emoe/2011-02-08_14-28-48_655.jpg
It was only $10 on ebay.
I would really recommend it.

Jonas
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