Diveroid, and the smartphone becomes a dive computer
A campaign on Kickstarter reaches the funding objective in 10 days: it is to create an underwater smartphone case that integrates a dive computer and the possibility of taking photographs and recording videos.
A device that allows you to use your smartphone underwater, to take photos and record videos during a dive but also to keep track of the company’s main data, could be the dream of all diving enthusiasts.
A dream that seems destined to become reality, since a campaign on Kickstarter that proposes the realization of a device of this type has already collected more than 10 times its funding objective in a few days.
Diveroid, this is the name of the device, a particular underwater case equipped with a small dive computer and an app that transforms the mobile phone into an underwater photo/video camera and at the same time uses the phone display to show dive information, such as depth, dive time, temperature, rise time and keep a dive log. The case is compatible with most smartphone models on the market today and is equipped with three physical buttons to control the phone.
The app, which takes control of the phone’s camera, offers wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle, zoom and selfie shooting modes, and of course the ability to record videos. A red filter can be applied in real time to compensate for the loss of the red wavelength that occurs physiologically at certain depths with sunlight gradually filtered by water.
The case is suitable for diving up to 60 meters. By keeping track of the dive route, it is obviously able to note also at what depth a certain photograph was taken. The images can then be enriched with a graph, and the whole dive can be shared in the form of a logbook through the same app. And when you need to call the boat to return, the app can send a text message, including the exact geographic location.
There are already on the market cases that allow you to use your smartphone underwater, but Diveroid claims to be the only one equipped with a dive computer and integration of diving information with the photographic sector.
The Diveroid kit is available for $249 during the funding campaign, but once in production and on the market, it will be offered for $418. The first units should be delivered in February 2020: find all the necessary information on the campaign page on Kickstarter.
