Take your Lumia 1020 underwater like Cousteau with this $299 Watershot case

Over the weekend we reported on Fabien Cousteau'southward Mission 31 (mission-31.com), where the famed underwater explorer volition spend 31 days under the sea (cue the music). While super science stuff is super cool, we were more interested in the custom underwater housing for Cousteau's Nokia Lumia 1020. The housing will allow Cousteau to take photos 100 meters / 330 feet below the sea and to Tweet them subsequently, marking a beginning for Nokia and Windows Phone.

Although we were quite jealous of the housing, Nokia in conjunction with the visitor Watershot Inc. have a limited supply of those casings for your Lumia 1020. Priced at $299, this is probably the near expensive case you'll always buy. On the other hand, if you're a SCUBA diver, the case and opportunity it presents is hard to resist.

So what practice you lot go for $300?

"This is no basic instance, the Watershot for Nokia Lumia 1020 is a multi-characteristic solution peculiarly fabricated to optimize the advanced photo and video capabilities of the Nokia Lumia 1020. The housing is custom machined from marine form Aluminum with a black hard anodize terminate.

The unit comes complete with the Watershot® removable flat lens port. This port includes a black rubberized baffle for optical image clarity, external threaded lens bezel for accessory lenses and filters."

In add-on, you also become a "…integrated, robust tripod mount and an boosted accessory mount on the height of the housing (for lights, etc.)" and equally previously mentioned, you're good to over 300 feet. If you're non a SCUBA diver, 300 feet is well beyond about recreation dives, which unremarkably don't get below 130 feet.

Overall, this is a niche product for a specialty phone, then nosotros can't imagine likewise many folks buying these. Nevertheless, for the pros in the world who want the best camera phone on the planet to go underwater, yous can't shell this Watershot instance at all.

For more information, head to Watershot's website when yous tin can throw down your coin for 1 of these limited edition Cousteau cases.

via: Nokia

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