Life, new and improved

While the name is a bit of a mouth full, the products are well worth the time it takes to type  in... or at least copy paste. It seemed silly to me to buy a product marketed as a "trekking umbrella".  But here's the thing, whether you use it for that or not this is an entirely different level of product.  Like eons beyond your store bought umbrella.  Basically everything on their website is true but I'll give you my bullet points here. -YES it is actually made of almost all flexible strong materials.  Very little metal is used and that does NOT make it cheap.  They use high grade products that are designed and utilized to bend and stuff into and do whatever awful things you do to this umbrella without it breaking or deforming. -It telescopes out a third farther than any normal umbrella handle does with the extra extension.  Now this is actually designed to clip to your backpack and hover above you with no hands for shade or rain protection all day long and th

It's hard to even explain how innovative and yet simply this has been pulled off. To start, Live Photos by Apple was an amazing advancement in how pictures are captured, viewed and shared.  The release of this technology however had some undeniable drawbacks.  It was shaky and hard to utilize after the fact.  If you didn't specifically plan to use a Live Photo as such it was hard to ever find one that didn't start or end with the camera in your pocket or hand or a swift blur of the screen as you moved to the next shot.  The shots stitched together were inconsistent and generally not an appealing experience you wanted to share with anyone let alone upload to social media.  Lest we forget to mention that they also didn't give you any real way to export them outside the Apple ecosystem as a gif or video without a third party app. Motion Still by Google was the last thing I expected.  Google making my iphone even better?  And on top of that with a feature that I had been