Griffin takes on the iPhone Lens

Griffin Technology, the technical solution providers and digital accessories makers, have designed a very cool iPhone case with built-in lens for extra focus called the Clarifi.

From their website:

Slide the Clarifi lens into place over the built-in lens of your iPhone. Your macro and close-up shots are instantly finer in detail, more accurate in color. With Clarifi's lens, your iPhone can image an entire business card with astounding clarity. Slide the lens aside for normal photography. WIthout Clarifi, iPhone requires about 18 inches to focus properly. Slide Clarifi's lens into place and you can move in to 4 inches for crisp detail and great pictures.

Apple's new TV spot states that there are 75,000 apps available for the iPhone. All the software stuff people are creating continues to impress, for sure, but my eye will be out for more external "hacks" like this.

Writing on the Wall, in the Air

Engineers at Duke have developed a new way to enter information using smart phones: by writing it into the air. They've leveraged the phone's accelerometers (an internal device that tracks the phones movements and orientations, a huge asset in most games) and turned the phone into a pen, and the air into a blank tablet.

"By holding the phone like a pen, you can write short messages or draw simple diagrams in the air," said Sandip Agrawal, an electrical and computer engineering student at Duke University in North Carolina.

The PhonePoint Pen is due out in a few months, and could be the safe alternative to "driving while texting" the world has been waiting for.

Thanks to LiveScience.