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Welcome to Alignus Tech Tips unboxing. Today we've got the Life Form PH ORM and

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we've also got a very different setup. So, here's here's something like crazy

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going on right now. So, we have a B-roll camera. We're going to switch to that

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right now. See? B-roll camera for close-ups. Let's

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have a close look at the box of the life form. So, the Life Form is trying to

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replace any smartphone, tablet, or camera holder that you have already and

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just do whatever that does and better. So, I'll give you a couple examples of

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the sorts of products that we're trying to replace here. So, here's a tablet

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stand. This is actually a pretty good tablet stand. You can rotate it into

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portrait or uh or landscape mode. You

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can rotate. Whoa. Okay. See, it falls out if you do that. But, uh that's not

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really the recommended way to use it. That that is right there. And then it

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also seeks to replace stuff like this. So here is sort of one of those portable

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tripods that you can throw your camera on and you can easily take a picture.

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You can't do things like sort of portrait shots or anything like that.

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You can't clip it to things. So the Life Form tries to be a pretty unique

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approach to this in that it here I'm just going to open up the box.

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Mounts and it's extremely flexible. So inside the box you find only a couple

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things. You got a manual here that shows you how to mount smartphones, tablets,

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cameras, as well as just gives you sort of a index of all the different stuff

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that should be inside the box. You got a piece of foam over the top and then

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you've got the life form itself. So, you just pop that out there and it's a

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pretty neat little device. So, here's where you would mount. So, at the start,

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it comes with the uh with the phone mount, obviously, as you can see. And

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it's got six legs. So, these six legs are made of plastic, but they're kind of

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a reinforced plastic. They do feel quite strong. The joints are tight and they

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are adjustable. So, you can see they've all got screws on them. So, if they get too loose or if you feel like they're

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too tight, you can adjust them so that they have as much stickiness as you

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want. Remember, you want it to be a little sticky because you want to put these in place and you want them to to

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stay there. Uh they bend in three different places. So, they all bend

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here. See? Like that. They all have one joint right up at the very top. And then

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they all have a second joint a little bit further away, kind of like a kind of

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like a hand. And then at the end, in order to grab onto things, there's these

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little rubberized hooks that are not going to damage anything, but they

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should allow it to kind of clamp onto stuff. So, some of the examples that the

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manufacturer gives are, you know, clipping it to a tree to take a portrait

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picture with your camera, hanging it to the edge of a of a ramp on a skate park,

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so you can get like cool footage of yourself going over. This I'm not sure

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if I'd recommend, but that's on the windscreen of a boat and a bike. A

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treadmill is probably fine. And then they've got a couple more examples here,

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including the back of a headrest and then a pregnant woman's belly. Actually,

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I think it's a pillow and I don't think she's pregnant, but uh

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very funny, right? So, I want to show you guys all three different mounting

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mechanisms because they're kind of clever. So, there's two nuts at the

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back. One of them is a metal one. So, this one you have to be you have to kind

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of really go at it with your fingers and it's it's a little bit tough. And then

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the other one's a plastic one. So, the plastic one loosens the sliding mount.

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So, that's how you're going to expand it to the maximum, which will allow you to

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mount uh let's see, can I get an iPhone in

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there? Nope. We're going to want to do an iPhone this way. So, you allows you to mount sort of a smartphone. So, then

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all you do is you put this back into place like that. Make it nice and tight

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so it's not going anywhere. And then you can do crazy things like here, I'm going to go around the front of the table and

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uh clip it to the front of the table. And that's not going to go anywhere in

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theory. So, you can take these ones and you can bring Okay, you know what? Let's

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clip it to something more interesting. Let's clip it to the cat tree. So, this

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is sort of like their tree example where you just take all these legs and you

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grab it onto there or you can hang it off the edge of something which is sort

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of neat. Just kind of go like this and then sort of clamp it up there. There

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you go. So, if you want to put it on your your homemade Whoops. There we go.

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Cat tree then that would also work. There we go. Grab around the back there.

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Actually, it's kind of it's kind of neat. So, once you get it positioned correctly, it's uh it's not bad at all.

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So, I want to give you guys another closeup of the of the uh the rubberized

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grippy parts here so that you can get some idea of whether your stuff's going

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to get damaged or not. So, you can see there's actually like a super soft,

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super sticky grip all inside the insides of these hooks as well as on the back

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here. So, you don't have to worry about your fragile electronics getting

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damaged. So, this guy right here allows

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us to take the screw out completely. And then what we can do is we can go ahead

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and open the whole thing up in order to get compatibility for larger devices

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such as tablets. All you got to do is take it, throw it back onto the life

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form claw, screw the metal screw back in

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first until it goes all the way. And you can tell it has a bit of a it has a bit

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of a feel to it. Like you well, you feel it sort of. Okay. And then you throw

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your tablet into the clamps and then

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tighten them up, which is easy as long as you don't accidentally do up the

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plastic one all the way. Okay. And then you tighten up the plastic nut. So now

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that you've done that, your tablet is mounted to the life form. So you can go

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ahead and, like I said, easy replacement for something like this because you are

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now ready to mount your tablet and, you know, watch a little movie or do

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whatever it is you want to do. You can also easily adjust it so that you can

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sit it sort of the other way or whatever

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else. You can rotate it. Actually, it's probably easier to just rotate the

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tablet this whatever. Okay. The point is it's flexible. The point is you can take

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it now. You can clip it onto the back of something and it's not really going to

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go anywhere. Last thing that you can mount to it with these is a camera. So,

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we're going to replace that tripody mount thing that we got going on there.

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For this, you take off

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There we go. You take this off completely and then this is threaded

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correctly for the bottom of a camera. So that's not going to work yet until I

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actually have a camera to put on it. So this is a pretty standard pretty

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standard mount that you'll find on any sort of halfdecent camera. So you just

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put that through there. Put that into the bottom of the camera.

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And now you are ready to do sort of

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crazy things with your camera like mount it wherever it is you want it to go. So

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yeah, let's uh let's go back to sort of their example. Is it actually good

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enough to do this? So let's see if the picture on the on the box is just

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outright deceptive or if this can actually work.

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Can that do that? Yeah, look at that. There you go. You can like zoom in and

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stuff should you so desire. See, it's

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very neat, actually. I think that pretty much wraps it up.

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Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Life Form Mount

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