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Extrasensory Devices' Rockit and Wiretap audio splitters are useful and durable dongles that do distinctly different things.  The Rockit splits a combo jack into a headphone out and microphone in, while the Wiretap splits a combo jack into a headphone out and a mic-in/headphone-out (another combo jack). If you want to learn more about the differences between the Rockit and Wiretap audio splitters, take a look at our short video below.  

Extrasensory Devices make two splitters (we're about to make a third - more on that later) The Rockit (Red) and the Wiretap (Black) The Rockit splits your combo jack to one mic, and one headphones The Wiretap splits your combo jack to one combo jack (that's a mic AND headphones), and one (other) headphones. Or in other words...   Click here to buy 'em!      

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.

Extrasensory Devices has launched Luxi, an incident light meter attachment for iPhones. Luxi clips onto your iPhone and, with an app, turns it into a light meter for photography, videography, or anything else that requires measuring light levels. Using Luxi, photographers can turn their iPhone into an incident light meter.     Follow us on Twitter and visit us on Facebook.

One of the final prototypes mounted to an iPhone 4.  Hand made Acrylic dome to simulate final translucent dome.  The large dome gathers plenty of light to make a good sample for the camera to meter with.