Cameras & creator gear

Smart split camera and printer that he'd genuinely use daily, with a clever QR code feature; nine out of ten.

The prison uses DJI's enterprise drone with thermal cameras for incident response, and Arun finds it reassuring that consumer-grade gear is…

A fun offline way to take photos that lets them leave their phones at home.

A muggy budget camera with a free kit of accessories, nowhere near his Sony A7S III.

Impressive thumb-sized camera that packs better video, battery, audio and modes into a tiny body, with everything needed included in the bo…

A gimbal unlike any other he has used, with clever AI tracking, a built-in tripod and selfie stick, and long battery life, making it his be…

Cleverly gamified retro camera with a 128x128 black and white image and heat-paper printing, though unflattering.

Thinks the two-drone landmine clearing system could save thousands of lives and clear mines far faster than manual removal.

Considered one of the greatest digital cameras in 1994, though it had a 0.3 megapixel sensor and held only eight photos.

Used to record him eating ice cream; not reviewed.

A tone-deaf proposal to put taser drones in schools that caused ethics board resignations; it never reached production.

A self-built FPV drone is a big part of the team's filming gear, which Arun found wild.

Sky Panels are the lights used in MrBeast's videos, each a $7,000 fixture able to light a warehouse.

About 50 GoPros are kept in boxes in the camera room.

A key run-and-gun camera for the team, praised for night vision and optical stabilisation.

The team owns 26 of these cameras, used for time-lapse shots, a $6,000 camera at launch.

A strange flattened camera that feels solid and takes quirky, old-school style photos.

Drones that fire sound vortexes to put out fires are not final yet but look pretty fierce.

UK researchers' 3D-printed drones use thermal sensors and sirens to keep rhino poachers away; rated 5 out of 10.

Google's 15-camera backpack system has mapped remote places, from rainforests to zip lines.

Drones that plant 20,000 trees a day at about 50 cents each, tackling deforestation at scale.

An extremely extra accessory that gives phenomenal vlogging results, but adds about $200 to an already costly phone.

Autonomous drone network delivering blood samples and medicines, rated 9 out of 10.

Ambitious 16-lens camera that was too complex and awkward to use, appealing to neither phone nor DSLR users.