Monsterpod – Shapeable Camera Tripod

Whee! I’ll be an unwitting shill for a viral marketing campagne but only because it looks neat. If the Monsterpod does half of what it says it can do then I might buy one. The Monsterpd is like a beanbag tripod without the beans. Actually, it’s a plastic base that has a mold-able ‘viscoelastic morphing polymer’ (read: some sort of shape holding gel foam stuff), and a neoprene outer covering. All in a 6oz package. As long as your camera is under 300 gm (10 oz) it will hold whatever in place for a minute to an hour before oozing and letting go. This should give anyone enough time to set the self timer and get in the shot. If I were to guess how it works and I might as well do that, I’d say that you push it onto whatever you want and it fills in the nooks and crannies with bits of itself until it hold fast. Like the way a vine will crawl up a wall. I’m paranoid so I’d use a safety line on the camera if I were to plant it on a  tree or sideways to a pole. But that’s just me.
The website says it will be shipping in a few weeks so look for it soon.

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