Welcome to Alignus Tech Tips unboxing. Today we've got the Life Form PH ORM and
we've also got a very different setup. So, here's here's something like crazy
going on right now. So, we have a B-roll camera. We're going to switch to that
right now. See? B-roll camera for close-ups. Let's
have a close look at the box of the life form. So, the Life Form is trying to
replace any smartphone, tablet, or camera holder that you have already and
just do whatever that does and better. So, I'll give you a couple examples of
the sorts of products that we're trying to replace here. So, here's a tablet
stand. This is actually a pretty good tablet stand. You can rotate it into
portrait or uh or landscape mode. You
can rotate. Whoa. Okay. See, it falls out if you do that. But, uh that's not
really the recommended way to use it. That that is right there. And then it
also seeks to replace stuff like this. So here is sort of one of those portable
tripods that you can throw your camera on and you can easily take a picture.
You can't do things like sort of portrait shots or anything like that.
You can't clip it to things. So the Life Form tries to be a pretty unique
approach to this in that it here I'm just going to open up the box.
Mounts and it's extremely flexible. So inside the box you find only a couple
things. You got a manual here that shows you how to mount smartphones, tablets,
cameras, as well as just gives you sort of a index of all the different stuff
that should be inside the box. You got a piece of foam over the top and then
you've got the life form itself. So, you just pop that out there and it's a
pretty neat little device. So, here's where you would mount. So, at the start,
it comes with the uh with the phone mount, obviously, as you can see. And
it's got six legs. So, these six legs are made of plastic, but they're kind of
a reinforced plastic. They do feel quite strong. The joints are tight and they
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
too tight, you can adjust them so that they have as much stickiness as you
want. Remember, you want it to be a little sticky because you want to put these in place and you want them to to
stay there. Uh they bend in three different places. So, they all bend
here. See? Like that. They all have one joint right up at the very top. And then
they all have a second joint a little bit further away, kind of like a kind of
like a hand. And then at the end, in order to grab onto things, there's these
little rubberized hooks that are not going to damage anything, but they
should allow it to kind of clamp onto stuff. So, some of the examples that the
manufacturer gives are, you know, clipping it to a tree to take a portrait
picture with your camera, hanging it to the edge of a of a ramp on a skate park,
so you can get like cool footage of yourself going over. This I'm not sure
if I'd recommend, but that's on the windscreen of a boat and a bike. A
treadmill is probably fine. And then they've got a couple more examples here,
including the back of a headrest and then a pregnant woman's belly. Actually,
I think it's a pillow and I don't think she's pregnant, but uh
very funny, right? So, I want to show you guys all three different mounting
mechanisms because they're kind of clever. So, there's two nuts at the
back. One of them is a metal one. So, this one you have to be you have to kind
of really go at it with your fingers and it's it's a little bit tough. And then
the other one's a plastic one. So, the plastic one loosens the sliding mount.
So, that's how you're going to expand it to the maximum, which will allow you to
mount uh let's see, can I get an iPhone in
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
all you do is you put this back into place like that. Make it nice and tight
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
uh clip it to the front of the table. And that's not going to go anywhere in
theory. So, you can take these ones and you can bring Okay, you know what? Let's
clip it to something more interesting. Let's clip it to the cat tree. So, this
is sort of like their tree example where you just take all these legs and you
grab it onto there or you can hang it off the edge of something which is sort
of neat. Just kind of go like this and then sort of clamp it up there. There
you go. So, if you want to put it on your your homemade Whoops. There we go.
Cat tree then that would also work. There we go. Grab around the back there.
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.
So, I want to give you guys another closeup of the of the uh the rubberized
grippy parts here so that you can get some idea of whether your stuff's going
to get damaged or not. So, you can see there's actually like a super soft,
super sticky grip all inside the insides of these hooks as well as on the back
here. So, you don't have to worry about your fragile electronics getting
damaged. So, this guy right here allows
us to take the screw out completely. And then what we can do is we can go ahead
and open the whole thing up in order to get compatibility for larger devices
such as tablets. All you got to do is take it, throw it back onto the life
form claw, screw the metal screw back in
first until it goes all the way. And you can tell it has a bit of a it has a bit
of a feel to it. Like you well, you feel it sort of. Okay. And then you throw
your tablet into the clamps and then
tighten them up, which is easy as long as you don't accidentally do up the
plastic one all the way. Okay. And then you tighten up the plastic nut. So now
that you've done that, your tablet is mounted to the life form. So you can go
ahead and, like I said, easy replacement for something like this because you are
now ready to mount your tablet and, you know, watch a little movie or do
whatever it is you want to do. You can also easily adjust it so that you can
sit it sort of the other way or whatever
else. You can rotate it. Actually, it's probably easier to just rotate the
tablet this whatever. Okay. The point is it's flexible. The point is you can take
it now. You can clip it onto the back of something and it's not really going to
go anywhere. Last thing that you can mount to it with these is a camera. So,
we're going to replace that tripody mount thing that we got going on there.
For this, you take off
There we go. You take this off completely and then this is threaded
correctly for the bottom of a camera. So that's not going to work yet until I
actually have a camera to put on it. So this is a pretty standard pretty
standard mount that you'll find on any sort of halfdecent camera. So you just
put that through there. Put that into the bottom of the camera.
And now you are ready to do sort of
crazy things with your camera like mount it wherever it is you want it to go. So
yeah, let's uh let's go back to sort of their example. Is it actually good
enough to do this? So let's see if the picture on the on the box is just
outright deceptive or if this can actually work.
Can that do that? Yeah, look at that. There you go. You can like zoom in and
stuff should you so desire. See, it's
very neat, actually. I think that pretty much wraps it up.
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