The easiest way to think of Swivl is probably as a robot cameraman. It’s a dock for your smartphone that follows you around automatically, designed to make video recording or chatting easier and better-looking. You drop in your phone, and hold a small remote control as you’re recording; the dock tracks the remote with an RF connection and swivels to point toward it, so you can have it follow you as you move around, or you can point the remote where you want the camera to look. The gadget has been around since early this year, originally as an IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign with the name Satarii Star, but the company has re-branded and is nearly ready to start shipping.
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