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welcome to Alanis tech tips on boxing today we've got the life-form pho RM and we've also got a very different setup so here's here's something like crazy going on right now so we have a b roll camera we're going to switch to that right now c b roll camera for close-ups let's have a close look at the box of the life form so the life form is trying to replace any smartphone tablet or camera holder that you have already and just do whatever that does and better so i'll give you a couple examples of the sorts of products that we're trying to replace here so here's a tablet stand this is actually a pretty good tablet stand you can rotate it into portrait or landscape mode you can rotate blue okay see it falls out if you do that but that's not really the recommended way to use it that that is right there and then it also seeks to replace stuff like this so here is sort of one of those portable tripods that you can throw your camera on and you can easily take a picture you can't do things like sort of portrait shots or anything like that you can't clip it to things so the life-form tries to be a pretty unique approach to this and that it here i'm just going to open up the box now it's anything and it's extremely flexible so inside the box you find only a couple things you got a manual here that shows you how to mount smartphones tablets cameras as well as just gives you sort of a index of all the different stuff that should be inside the box you got a piece of foam over the top and then you've got the life-form itself so you just pop that out there and it's a pretty neat little device so here's where you would mount so let the start it comes with the with the phone mount obviously as you can see and it's got six legs so these six legs are made of plastic but they're kind of a reinforced plastic they do feel quite strong the joints are tight and they are adjustable so you can see they've all got screws on them so if they get too loose or if you feel like they're too tight you can adjust them so that they have as much stickiness as you want remember you want it to be a little sticky because you want to put these in place and you want them to to stay there they bend in three different places so they all bend here tell you like that they all have one joint right up at very top and then they all have a second joint a little bit further away kind of like kind of like a hand and then at the end in order to grab onto things there's these little rubberized hooks that are not going to damage anything but they should allow it to kind of clamp onto stuff so some of the examples that the manufacturer gives are you know clipping it to a tree to take a portrait picture with your camera hanging it to the edge of a ramp on a skate park so you can get like cool footage of yourself going over this i'm not sure if i'd recommend but that's on the windscreen of a boat and a bike I treadmills probably fine and then they've got a couple more examples here including the back of a headrest and then a pregnant woman's belly actually I think it's a pillow and I don't think she's pregnant but ha ha ha ha very funny right so I want to show you guys all three different mounting mechanisms because they're kind of clever so there's two nuts at the back one of them is a metal one so this one you have to be you have to kind of really go at it with your fingers and it's a little bit tough and then the other one's a plastic ones so the plastic one loosens the sliding mount so that's how you're going to expand it to the maximum which will allow you to mount let's see can I get an iphone in there note we're going to want to do an iphone this way so you allows you to mount sort of a smartphone so then all you do is you put this back into place like that make it nice and tight so it's not going anywhere and then you can do crazy things like here I'm going to go around the front of the table and clip it to the front of the table and that's not gonna go anywhere in theory so you can take these ones and you can bring okay you know what let's clip it to something more interesting let's clip it to the cat tree so this is sort of like their tree example where you just take all these legs and you grab it on to their or you can hang it off the edge of something just sort of neat just kind of go like this and then try to clamp it up there there you go so if you want to put it on your your homemade whoops there we go cat tree then that would also work go grab around the back actually it's kind of kind of neat so once you get it positioned correctly it's it's not bad at all so I want to give you guys another close-up of the of the the rubberized grip e parts here so that you can get some idea of whether your stuffs going to get damaged or not so you can see there's actually like a super soft super sticky grip all inside the insides of these hooks as well as on the back here so you don't have to worry about your fragile electronics getting damaged so this guy right here allows us to take the screw out completely and then what we can do is we can go ahead and open the whole thing up in order to get compatibility for larger devices such as tablets all you got to do is take it throw it back on to the life-form claw screw the metal screw back in first until it goes all the way and you can tell it has a bit of a it has a bit of a feel to it like you well you feel it sort of okay then you throw your tablet into the clamps and then tighten them up which is easy as long as you don't accidentally do up the plastic one all the way okay and then you tighten up the plastic nut so now that you've done that your tablet is mounted to the life form so you can go ahead and like I said easy replacement for something like this because you are now ready to mount your tablet and you know watch a little movie or do whatever it is you want to do you can also easily adjust it so that you can sit it sort of the other way or whatever else you can rotate it actually it's probably easier to just rotate the tablet that's what whatever okay the point is it's flexible the point is you can take it now you can clip it onto the back of something and it's not really going to go anywhere last thing that you can mount to it with these is a camera so we're going to replace that tripod e-mount thing that we got going on there for this you take off there we go you take this off completely and then this is threaded correctly for the bottom of a camera so that's not going to work yet until I actually had a camera to put on it so this is a pretty standard pretty standard mount that you'll find on any sort of half decent camera so you just put that through there put that into the bottom of the camera and now you are ready to do sort of crazy things with your camera like mount it wherever it is you want it to go so yeah let's let's go back to sort of their example is it actually good enough to do this so let's see if the picture on the on the box is just outright deceptive or if this can actually work cannot do that yeah look at that there you go you can like zoom in and stuff should you so desire see very neat actually I think that pretty much wraps it up thank you for checking out this unboxing and first look at the life form amount for tablets smart phones and cameras don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos and since we have our fancy b roll camera i'm going to get our cameraman to come in here and take like a nice sort of like spinning shot of our lazy susan which is also a new addition to our set and don't forget to subscribe