Some divers won’t be thrilled with the idea of having one device do everything.
The idea is simple plug your precious iPhone into the housing and using the free, accompanying app, turn your phone into a multipurpose dive tool, with high resolution screen, 8 mega pixel camera, fast processor and GPS.
The iGills unit (above) is a solid, plastic housing with built-in depth and temperature gauge rated to 130 feet (40m). IGills, now on sale from and the forthcoming Scuba Capsule, are two products that take advantage of this technology and apply it to recreational scuba diving. IPhones and in time, other mobile devices, may just usher in a new era of dive equipment. But as mobile devices become more common in the diving public, it’s easy to forget just how powerful these little computers have become. We’ve had heads up displays inside masks, and remotely air integrated computers. It aims to replace your stills and video camera, dive computer, log book and even compass.ĭespite an evolution in micro electronics in recent years, the recreational dive industry has seen few innovations. But they are only camera housings, the new iGills housing and app package offers much more. Underwater housings, seen below, can now turn your beloved iPhone into a good little underwater camera. More and more diving related apps for mobile devices are available, not least among them the splendid DIVER iPad magazine app, available soon from the iTunes newsstand (hint hint). The first iPhone commercials proudly stated “There’s an App for that.” Indeed, it seems so. We dive into a new, emerging wave of SCUBA technology As electronic devices become smaller, cheaper and more powerful, their applications can be seen infiltrating all walks of life.
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