The Gekkopod is a new product that's designed as a go-anywhere, attach-to-just-about-anything mount for GoPros, smartphones, and compact cameras.
The Gekkopod is a new product from Zuckerim Inc, an Israeli product-design and mass production company, that’s designed to be a go-anywhere, attach-to-just-about-anything mount for GoPros, smartphones, and compact cameras. It’s pitched as the world’s most flexible mount. Its closest competitor is the Joby GP1 GorillaPod, but there are some key differences. The GorillaPods use a ball-like system for its three legs. They’re bendable but are there’s enough resistance to hold their shape against light force. So you can wrap them around poles, fences, handlebars, or straps. There’s also a magnetic version that has small magnets in the end of each leg that adds more options on where you can mount it in place. The Gekkopod is a similar idea, but it has five legs and they’re flat. The extra legs provides more opportunities for stabilizing, and having them flat both gives them a bit more surface area to grip as well as means they can be poked through spaces where the GorillaPod can’t go. Things like chain links, etc. While the silicon skin doesn’t have the same magic sticking qualities of a real gecko’s feet, it does add some friction to help keep it in place on slick surfaces. And with five feet, you can also configure it in such a way that it becomes a smartphone stand by itself (check out the video below to see what I mean). You can also move the screw mount to the end of one of the feet, creating yet more possible configurations with the legs. The overall package is lightweight (1.6 oz) and small and fits easily in your camera bag, so it’s one of those things you can just throw in just in case.
The rubberized skin helps it stay in place even when you can’t get the legs to go all the way around your attachment point and even on slick surfaces like this steel pole. Please not that the blue Smatree GoPro thumbscrew isn’t included.
The flat, flexible legs mean that you can wrap it around all sorts of things, including chain links.
From left to right: a smartphone cradle, a GoPro mount, and a small ballhead.
A regular 1/8″ screw mount is embedded directly into the Gekkopod, so if your camera has a compatible screw mount you can attach it directly.
The underside has a flip-out tightener for the screw mount on top.
This post was last modified on October 9, 2020 2:48 pm