Me wanty!

This thing is HOT. It allows you to take photos at 90º angles to your actual subject. Why is this important? Well, in point of fact, it's not. BUT! What it does for the photographer is allows them to take pictures of people in their natural state. Uncertainty Principal tells us that we can either know the position of an electron, or its speed, but never both. This is because the behaviour of electrons, being sub atomic particles, is effected by the mere act of observation. They are very shy little leptons indeed! Anyway, people are the same way. You shove a camera in their face and they get all kinds of unnatural, which is frustrating for a picture maker since a photo of someone smiling a fake ass smile is the very height of yuck. Our brains are hard wired to detect false emotion. We're social creatures, and society is built upon reciprocity and its expectation. The presence of individuals who take advantage of other individuals favor has lead to the evolution very sophisticated psychological mechanisms for fraud detection. These mechanisms are especially adept at sniffing out reproductive infidelity (only to be overturned by wishful thinking!), which is why most people know, at some level, that their partner is cheating.

Tangent fulfilled!

This lens adapter allows you to surreptitiously photograph people, thus capturing their true state the moment the shutter flutters, which is huge. There may be some questions about the moral/ethical nature of taking people's photographs w/out their knowledge, but those questions are best left to the philosophers, whom no one listens to anymore anyway.

I found this little tidbit courtesy of boing boing. It is sold through photojojo. They also sell poloroid cameras, and a lot of other cool shit too.