We have made great progress on HiLO Lens. The latest prototypes are close to the final design. The HiLO Lens App is ready for testing. So it seemed the right time to share more details.

If you like playing with words then creating brands is a lot of fun. Regarding branding, the book Killer Brands by Frank Lane is well worth a look. The word slogan derives from a battle cry of a Scottish clan. That is something to pay attention to ! The creation of a great slogan, like a [...]

There are several ways to access the quality of optics. One simple approach is to take photos of a test chart. But this requires a high quality print of the test chart. Here are two prints that a friend made for me with a very good ink jet printer and laser printer. The photo above [...]

The weight that the sticky pad can hold is directly related to the area of the pad. The sticky pad on the base of HiLO Lens is designed to hold 10 times the weight of HiLO Lens. To demonstrate just how sticky the pad is, check out the prototype : There are some caveats:

There are two easy ways to align HiLO Lens. Now for a demonstration… Firstly the shape of HiLO Lens matches the curved profile of the iPhone. So you can align it using this curve e.g. Secondly we can see the camera iris when looking into HiLO Lens. The HiLO Lens prototype is not well aligned [...]

Things are really coming together! The optics are housed in an aluminium tube which  anodized black. For this prototype we had an outer container 3D printed in white Nylon. There is a simple L shaped cap, also 3D printed, that protects the lenses. A marker was used to paint them black. The sticky pad was laser cut and [...]