Blog — iPhone

We shipped the machined (hand-finished) Luxis out on May 30, so the super-early adopters should have theirs now. We’re especially grateful to you guys for your investment in the Luxi project. You helped us enormously and your contribution is much appreciated. The final production models arrived in-house today, and they look fantastic. We had a little back-and-forth about the packaging, and a small rubber grip pad that helps to secure Luxi in place. Initially the pad was grey but we decided - to look just right, it needed to be black.     Both the microfiber pouch and the lanyard...

Thursday May 16th   Hi Everyone, We're on track to have all manufacture complete by the start of June. The diffusion dome tooling is complete, and the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4(S) clips are wrapping up next week. The machined (ABS) versions are shipping on May 20th.Once the production is complete we'll be getting them shipped to us, then to you. We looked into having them ship direct to you from the manufacturer to expedite the process, but that turned out to be impossible. Instead we're going to have them packaged, put into mailers, addressed and labelled by the manufacturer,...

You may have noticed we jazzed up the website a little, finally. Well there's a lot more going on behind the scenes... We're really busy with Luxi. It's amazing to think we've taken a product from invention through to manufacturing in just a few  months. In a large part we have our Kickstarter backers to thank for that. We've had numerous design iterations, a lot of back-and-forth with app developers. We've made two versions, and designed packaging to boot! We couldn't do it without our lead Industrial Designer, Shane. He's a total legend. When he's not designing great products for...

Some Kickstarter backers asked to see Luxi in action, compared to existing devices. This week we tested Luxi with a Sekonic L-308 and a digital lux meter. We used Pocket Light Meter and Light Meter by White Goods for the lux testing.     Outside the Extrasensory Devices office on a cloudy day. We see time at 1/500, f/16 and ISO 800. Beautiful public plants in Palo Alto get the same light meter treatment: 1/500, f/11. Digital lux meter test images:   Direct sunlight: ~95,000 lux! Lux reading in our workshop. More images available here.