I've just received a press release extolling the virtues of Quik Pod, "the world's first extendable hand-held tripod". It's a telescoping rod with a swivelling head that attaches to the tripod socket ...

As a white, 18-meter-long cylindrical structure slowly descended into the sea off the coast of Lingshui Li autonomous county in Hainan this spring, the underwater intelligent computing pod connected ...