Sweet! The JOBY GorillaTorch Switchback, the first outdoor lantern that transforms into a headlamp, won the prestigious red dot award for Product Design. The competition was fierce, but the Switchback prevailed in a very crowded and international field with4,433 entries from 1,700 companies in 60 countries submitting work. The award is organized annually by the Design Zentrum [...]
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Friday Finds: Photography that makes you think and the GorillaPod – the Outdoorsman’s Best Friend
March 18, 2011 – 4:48 pm
Happy Friday Creactives! Today, I stumbled across this intriguing image with a scary JOBY GorillaPod plus camera peering ominously over fright-filled cigarettes. The story behind the image is even more arresting as it is by a Spanish photographer, J. Tiogran Solana who recently quit smoking and used the money he saved from not smoking to [...]
Putting the “pop” in popcorn
March 16, 2011 – 4:16 pm
For those of you who (like me) have non-existent Chinese speaking skills, this video starts out as a dark, incomprehensible activity – and then it gets exciting.
Friday Finds: Originality Rewarded and the GorillaTorch SwitchBack Gets Props
March 11, 2011 – 3:27 pm
Happy Sunny Friday! First some formal - yet very good news, JOBY was awarded a Utility Patent which officially recognized the pioneering and innovative functionality of the GorillaPod range of products. Here is the text for the press release that we sent out last week: JOBY, the innovative and award-winning consumer products company and creator [...]
Friday Finds: Gorillacam – now appearing in books, Medieval towns and Grocery Store Face Plants
March 4, 2011 – 4:55 pm
Happy Friday! We were pleased to find out this week, that our enormously popular iPhone app, Gorillacam, has been featured in not just one, but two different books. How to Create iPhone Photos by Allan Hoffman and iPhone Obsessed by Dan Marcolina both show off the Gorillacam app but the latter also features the lovely [...]
JOBY set to innovate GorillaMobile along with Apple’s iPad 2
March 2, 2011 – 11:17 am
Today, as many of you most likely know, Apple announced their newest version of the iPad. Armed with a front- and back-facing camera, faster speeds and multi-tasking features all in a thinner package, the iPad 2 is poised to be the must-have device for reading, cooking, gaming and picture-taking. So, what’s JOBY planning to do [...]
Friday Finds: Nice People, Carrots and iPad Case + Stand Reviews
February 25, 2011 – 4:43 pm
Hello Creactives, This week has been very meeting filled, so I am actually looking forward to the bizarrely cold weather that appears to be coming our way. I don’t believe it, but the weather gods of the iPhone claim that it will somehow be snowing with a low of 36 degrees today. Looking out the [...]
Friday Finds: GorillaPod dances into the 80′s and Fun Customer Feedback
February 18, 2011 – 2:13 pm
Happy Friday! The Friday before a long weekend here in the States, how lovely. My dance-loving-mood continues this week with a 80′s inspired groove fest with a dancing GorillaPod by Justin Bolduc Turpin. GorillaDance from Justin Bolduc Turpin on Vimeo. Feeling the need to travel, but not quite ready to pay for a ticket to [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day from JOBY
February 14, 2011 – 10:47 am
Well, the day that many people love and perhaps even more people dread has arrived. To celebrate the simple and beautiful core of the holiday (and not the hallmark or the snide consumerism), I offer up these two lovely odes to love. As a lover of modern dance, the lyrcisim and amazing lines of this [...]
Friday Finds: Photography with Fimo Characters, Time-Lapse Photography and Yogi press
February 11, 2011 – 1:19 pm
Hello Creactives, Welcome to Friday and hopefully the start of a lovely weekend. This first image is absolutely adorable at first glance…although it becomes a little more sinister as you take a deeper look. These precious fimo characters seem to be having a jolly good time at play with hearts and love in the garden. [...]
