Binoculars

An adapter that lets you use a pair of binoculars as a super telephoto lens for your smartphone, improving zoom and viewing angles. It can be adjusted to fit various phone sizes and can also be used with telescopes and microscopes.

You might not mind the bleachers with Sony’s new DEV-50V binoculars. They sport a much sleeker design, are 30 percent lighter than the DEV-5 predecessor and can record and play HD video in stereoscopic 3D. Out 6/13 for $2K.

Reminiscent of Luke Skywalker’s digital binoculars, Sony’s DEV-3 & DEV-5 shoot full HD video and stills whether you’re watching birds, beasts, butterflies or neighbors. Out this November for $1400-$2000.

The Icon’s rubber-coated magnesium-alloy frame is water-, shock- and fog-resistant. And if it still breaks, the warranty guarantees immediate replacement “for any reason, anywhere, for life.”

If the Transformers started out as binoculars instead of cars and trucks, this is what they’d look like. Argentine designer Juan Pablo Lasa’s concept Cyberbots binocs really need to be made.

Minox’s night vision NV line gets downsized in a good way: the NV mini II measures just 4.2″ x 1.6″ (about as large as lipstick) and offers 2x magnification and infrared illumination.

Just in time for football season, Bushnell’s new Spectator Binoculars sport wide-angle, multi-coated optics that reduce glare, while PermaFocus means no more adjusting for sharp images.