Smartphone Gadgets you didn't see Coming

1. UCB C Display

first up a smartphone gadget I don't think I've ever come across in public but there are a lot of potential uses for this you're looking at a portable 1080p display with a trick up its sleeve it can be completely powered by your phone so one cable connecting your smartphone and this display and all of a sudden you've got either a full desktop experience or just a better way to watch your Netflix shows.

2. Senstroke

on-the-go fun fact I used to be a big fan of the drum kit so this blew my mind it's a kit containing four sensors you attach one on to each foot and then one on to each of two drumsticks and you can play the drums anywhere it also doesn't really matter what surface you're hitting it could be a table it could be a lab I wouldn't say it quite replicates the feel of a drum kit but it's about as close as you can get without one.

3. OSMO Mobile 3 

the Osmo mobile 3 is pretty much the king of affordable smartphone stabilizers. it's not the cheapest but considering just how smooth it can make your footage. it's worth a slight premium take this video taken on an iPhone whilst running lightly and now this with exactly the same settings on the phone just with the gimbal it also folds up into an almost pocket-friendly size.

4. Gripad

Another one is grip head and unless you mount your phone pretty much anywhere whilst you've probably seen sticky pads like this the fact that this product has a cover means that when you're not using it. you can close it and so the stickiness lasts longer. it can supposedly be used thousands of times.

5. go cube

kind of feels like a 21st century re-imagination of the Rubik's Cube you still looking at a 3x3 cube with the objective being to solve it by rotating until each side is a plain color however I think I deserve that one I should probably stop throwing things however you probably guessed it there's an app and it adds a lot to the experience it cannot just guide you on the best next steps from where you are but it brings minigames and challenge plus it records your stats also the company has clearly spent a long time thinking about the feel of the cube each movement is super smooth and there's a satisfying lock every time we shift into a new position.

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6. ORii

the Ori is a tiny gadget that lets you make phone calls with your fingers I'm not even joking it connects to your smart phone and can give you a subtle vibration anytime there's a notification but more interestingly when you want a phone call with someone you can talk to them just by going like this I'm being dead serious Ori has a good quality microphone built in to pick up your voice and uses bone conduction to send the audio from the other person into your inner ear what's also cool is that when a message comes in you can actually just place it on your ear like this and it'll dictate it for you and plus you can use a whole load of other air gestures to control other parts of your phone like what music track is playing is dull feels a little first-gen it doesn't pick up all the gestures I'd want it to but I hope it improves over time.

7. BzFuture Gamepad

by a company called easy future I think we've got one of the better mobile gamepads. it feels tightly constructed no flexing and the buttons good enough. but the most important differentiator here is that it slides on to your smartphone and this makes a whole lot more sense to me then a traditional Bluetooth gamepad for which you'd have to find a separate holder to keep your device propped up. this also has a bit of texture on the back and just generally gives you something meteor to grip onto.

8. Stellina

 we've got Stellina and probably the most expensive gadget we've ever had on this series but the results are mind-blowing they call it an observation station you've probably seen night mode on smartphone cameras it allows you to still capture good detail in the dark well this is kind of like that but on steroids Stellina has a massive Sony sensor that is built for extreme low-light performance and the equivalent of 50 times zoom so when you pair that together you can see distant space far beyond what your eyes alone can I took this shot of the Andromeda galaxy and this is just after 5 minutes of capture time and on a day with a pretty average amount of light pollution is also built to be easy it can automatically find constellations and I'll lock on and shoot them for you.