WEBVTT 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:17.039 Welcome to Alignus Tech Tips unboxing. Today we've got the Life Form PH ORM and 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:21.359 we've also got a very different setup. So, here's here's something like crazy 00:00:19.039 --> 00:00:24.560 going on right now. So, we have a B-roll camera. We're going to switch to that 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:29.199 right now. See? B-roll camera for close-ups. Let's 00:00:26.480 --> 00:00:34.079 have a close look at the box of the life form. So, the Life Form is trying to 00:00:31.439 --> 00:00:38.960 replace any smartphone, tablet, or camera holder that you have already and 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:41.440 just do whatever that does and better. So, I'll give you a couple examples of 00:00:40.239 --> 00:00:44.960 the sorts of products that we're trying to replace here. So, here's a tablet 00:00:43.520 --> 00:00:50.239 stand. This is actually a pretty good tablet stand. You can rotate it into 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:51.920 portrait or uh or landscape mode. You 00:00:50.239 --> 00:00:55.520 can rotate. Whoa. Okay. See, it falls out if you do that. But, uh that's not 00:00:53.920 --> 00:00:59.680 really the recommended way to use it. That that is right there. And then it 00:00:57.440 --> 00:01:03.280 also seeks to replace stuff like this. So here is sort of one of those portable 00:01:01.359 --> 00:01:06.720 tripods that you can throw your camera on and you can easily take a picture. 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:10.400 You can't do things like sort of portrait shots or anything like that. 00:01:08.479 --> 00:01:15.119 You can't clip it to things. So the Life Form tries to be a pretty unique 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:21.040 approach to this in that it here I'm just going to open up the box. 00:01:18.479 --> 00:01:24.159 Mounts and it's extremely flexible. So inside the box you find only a couple 00:01:22.479 --> 00:01:28.400 things. You got a manual here that shows you how to mount smartphones, tablets, 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:32.240 cameras, as well as just gives you sort of a index of all the different stuff 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:36.159 that should be inside the box. You got a piece of foam over the top and then 00:01:33.840 --> 00:01:40.320 you've got the life form itself. So, you just pop that out there and it's a 00:01:38.320 --> 00:01:43.600 pretty neat little device. So, here's where you would mount. So, at the start, 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:48.079 it comes with the uh with the phone mount, obviously, as you can see. And 00:01:45.439 --> 00:01:52.000 it's got six legs. So, these six legs are made of plastic, but they're kind of 00:01:49.840 --> 00:01:55.600 a reinforced plastic. They do feel quite strong. The joints are tight and they 00:01:54.159 --> 00:02:00.159 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 00:01:58.320 --> 00:02:03.280 too tight, you can adjust them so that they have as much stickiness as you 00:02:01.759 --> 00:02:08.080 want. Remember, you want it to be a little sticky because you want to put these in place and you want them to to 00:02:06.079 --> 00:02:12.879 stay there. Uh they bend in three different places. So, they all bend 00:02:09.920 --> 00:02:17.200 here. See? Like that. They all have one joint right up at the very top. And then 00:02:14.959 --> 00:02:21.280 they all have a second joint a little bit further away, kind of like a kind of 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.599 like a hand. And then at the end, in order to grab onto things, there's these 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:29.120 little rubberized hooks that are not going to damage anything, but they 00:02:27.200 --> 00:02:33.200 should allow it to kind of clamp onto stuff. So, some of the examples that the 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:37.280 manufacturer gives are, you know, clipping it to a tree to take a portrait 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:40.879 picture with your camera, hanging it to the edge of a of a ramp on a skate park, 00:02:39.440 --> 00:02:44.000 so you can get like cool footage of yourself going over. This I'm not sure 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:48.400 if I'd recommend, but that's on the windscreen of a boat and a bike. A 00:02:46.720 --> 00:02:51.920 treadmill is probably fine. And then they've got a couple more examples here, 00:02:49.920 --> 00:02:55.040 including the back of a headrest and then a pregnant woman's belly. Actually, 00:02:53.760 --> 00:02:59.840 I think it's a pillow and I don't think she's pregnant, but uh 00:02:58.319 --> 00:03:03.200 very funny, right? So, I want to show you guys all three different mounting 00:03:01.920 --> 00:03:07.519 mechanisms because they're kind of clever. So, there's two nuts at the 00:03:05.200 --> 00:03:11.680 back. One of them is a metal one. So, this one you have to be you have to kind 00:03:09.599 --> 00:03:14.239 of really go at it with your fingers and it's it's a little bit tough. And then 00:03:12.879 --> 00:03:19.840 the other one's a plastic one. So, the plastic one loosens the sliding mount. 00:03:16.879 --> 00:03:23.519 So, that's how you're going to expand it to the maximum, which will allow you to 00:03:21.760 --> 00:03:26.000 mount uh let's see, can I get an iPhone in 00:03:25.120 --> 00:03:32.319 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 00:03:29.920 --> 00:03:35.120 all you do is you put this back into place like that. Make it nice and tight 00:03:33.680 --> 00:03:41.280 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 00:03:38.480 --> 00:03:45.200 uh clip it to the front of the table. And that's not going to go anywhere in 00:03:43.040 --> 00:03:47.840 theory. So, you can take these ones and you can bring Okay, you know what? Let's 00:03:46.640 --> 00:03:52.080 clip it to something more interesting. Let's clip it to the cat tree. So, this 00:03:50.080 --> 00:03:56.319 is sort of like their tree example where you just take all these legs and you 00:03:53.920 --> 00:04:01.200 grab it onto there or you can hang it off the edge of something which is sort 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:04.560 of neat. Just kind of go like this and then sort of clamp it up there. There 00:04:03.200 --> 00:04:09.200 you go. So, if you want to put it on your your homemade Whoops. There we go. 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.920 Cat tree then that would also work. There we go. Grab around the back there. 00:04:10.959 --> 00:04:16.479 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. 00:04:15.200 --> 00:04:22.320 So, I want to give you guys another closeup of the of the uh the rubberized 00:04:19.919 --> 00:04:25.840 grippy parts here so that you can get some idea of whether your stuff's going 00:04:23.919 --> 00:04:31.440 to get damaged or not. So, you can see there's actually like a super soft, 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.560 super sticky grip all inside the insides of these hooks as well as on the back 00:04:32.960 --> 00:04:39.280 here. So, you don't have to worry about your fragile electronics getting 00:04:36.160 --> 00:04:42.160 damaged. So, this guy right here allows 00:04:39.280 --> 00:04:46.880 us to take the screw out completely. And then what we can do is we can go ahead 00:04:44.479 --> 00:04:51.120 and open the whole thing up in order to get compatibility for larger devices 00:04:48.720 --> 00:04:57.280 such as tablets. All you got to do is take it, throw it back onto the life 00:04:53.520 --> 00:04:59.759 form claw, screw the metal screw back in 00:04:57.280 --> 00:05:04.400 first until it goes all the way. And you can tell it has a bit of a it has a bit 00:05:01.520 --> 00:05:10.800 of a feel to it. Like you well, you feel it sort of. Okay. And then you throw 00:05:06.479 --> 00:05:13.360 your tablet into the clamps and then 00:05:10.800 --> 00:05:17.919 tighten them up, which is easy as long as you don't accidentally do up the 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:22.960 plastic one all the way. Okay. And then you tighten up the plastic nut. So now 00:05:20.400 --> 00:05:27.039 that you've done that, your tablet is mounted to the life form. So you can go 00:05:24.800 --> 00:05:31.360 ahead and, like I said, easy replacement for something like this because you are 00:05:29.199 --> 00:05:34.080 now ready to mount your tablet and, you know, watch a little movie or do 00:05:32.560 --> 00:05:39.120 whatever it is you want to do. You can also easily adjust it so that you can 00:05:35.919 --> 00:05:42.000 sit it sort of the other way or whatever 00:05:39.120 --> 00:05:45.360 else. You can rotate it. Actually, it's probably easier to just rotate the 00:05:43.520 --> 00:05:49.120 tablet this whatever. Okay. The point is it's flexible. The point is you can take 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:52.560 it now. You can clip it onto the back of something and it's not really going to 00:05:51.039 --> 00:05:58.000 go anywhere. Last thing that you can mount to it with these is a camera. So, 00:05:55.759 --> 00:06:03.520 we're going to replace that tripody mount thing that we got going on there. 00:05:59.440 --> 00:06:04.880 For this, you take off 00:06:03.520 --> 00:06:10.160 There we go. You take this off completely and then this is threaded 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:13.919 correctly for the bottom of a camera. So that's not going to work yet until I 00:06:11.759 --> 00:06:19.199 actually have a camera to put on it. So this is a pretty standard pretty 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:23.039 standard mount that you'll find on any sort of halfdecent camera. So you just 00:06:21.199 --> 00:06:29.680 put that through there. Put that into the bottom of the camera. 00:06:25.360 --> 00:06:32.639 And now you are ready to do sort of 00:06:29.680 --> 00:06:36.160 crazy things with your camera like mount it wherever it is you want it to go. So 00:06:34.560 --> 00:06:39.840 yeah, let's uh let's go back to sort of their example. Is it actually good 00:06:38.319 --> 00:06:43.680 enough to do this? So let's see if the picture on the on the box is just 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:48.560 outright deceptive or if this can actually work. 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:54.560 Can that do that? Yeah, look at that. There you go. You can like zoom in and 00:06:51.280 --> 00:06:57.039 stuff should you so desire. See, it's 00:06:54.560 --> 00:07:00.960 very neat, actually. I think that pretty much wraps it up. 00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:06.240 Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the Life Form Mount 00:07:03.599 --> 00:07:10.240 for tablets, smartphones, and cameras. Don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech 00:07:07.919 --> 00:07:14.240 Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. 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