Gadget Watch: OWLE Upgrades iPhone Video

gI_OWLEFrontsmaller.pngAvailable for pre-order tomorrow, The OWLE Bubo is a fun kit of hardware to add to your iPhone 3GS so you can upgrade video capture from the device. You could instead buy a nicer camera…but the iPhone is a pretty great, connected platform that’s already in quite a few pockets. For a $99.95 early adopter price, Bubo purchasers get an anodized billet aluminum device to encase and stabilize their iPhones, with a flash mount, four tripod mounts, a 37mm wide-angle lens and threading for other lenses, and a microphone.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based OWLE was only founded earlier this year and won the “Most Promising Startup” award presented by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund at iPhoneDevCamp 3 this summer. The company says it has a “couple thousand units” ready to go, and that it plans to raise the Bubo price to $129.95 for later batches. When you’re talking that price range, there are some pretty cheap digicams out there that take great video out of the box…but what they don’t do is connect to the web and the iPhone’s ecosystem of applications. Check the video below to see what the final product looks like, both in front of the camera and used with the camera itself.

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