Olloclip and Incase's limited-edition Filmer's Kit can level up your iPhone photographer game

olloclip is announcing a special limited-edition Filmer’s Kit in collaboration with Incase.  The inaugural Filmer's Kit includes $300 worth of curated essentials for mobile videography, photography and live streaming for a special price of $199, and now available at apple.com and Apple locations worldwide.

The all-new Filmer’s Kit is designed to deliver the mobile videographer, live streamer & photographer with a complete creative arsenal of lenses sized to fit today’s most popular camera, iPhone.  A rig made up of five different lenses and a grip once took a backpack or rolling case to carry, but today it all fits in an ultra-portable case taking up a fraction of the space.  With premium lenses offering five unique fields of view, users are now equipped to shoot farther, wider and closer than ever before possible with iPhone’s built-in front and rear cameras.

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Amazon tipped to be working on a messaging app

Whether we want another messaging app or not, it looks like we’re getting one. Amazon is reportedly working on its own service and they’re calling it “Anytime by Amazon.” The company is sending out surveys to its customers about the service to find out what features are important to them. The app will supposedly use your Amazon account as your login and it’ll be encrypted. Anytime will supposedly have mobile and desktop clients and might include things like being able to make reservations and listen to music from within the app.

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‘Doctor Who’ gets first female Doctor

The number 13 seems to be a lucky number for Jodie Whittaker. BBC just announced that the actress will be playing the 13^th Time Lord of the long-running British science fiction show, Doctor Who. Whittaker will be taking over the role from Peter Capaldi in an upcoming Christmas special and then will take on the role fully in the 11^th series, which is expected to air in late 2018. As mentioned, Whittaker will be the first female to take on the role of the Doctor throughout it 50-plus years of existence. It won’t complicate things though as it has been shown in the series many times that the Time Lords can regenerate as different genders and races. Recently, the traditional male villain The Master was re-characterized as The Mistress, who is played by Michelle Gomez.

Whittaker has starred as Beth Latimar in the ITV crime series Broadchurch. That show’s creator Chris Chibnall will also be replacing Steven Moffat as the showrunner of Doctor Who. In an interview with the BBC, Whittaker commented that "It's more than an honor to play the Doctor. It means remembering everyone I used to be, while stepping forward to embrace everything the Doctor stands for: hope. I can't wait."

Google Maps tells you when’s the best time to leave for your destination

Google Maps isn’t just going to alert you about traffic in your area. This time, a new update coming to Android will let you know when the best time to leave for your destination will be. A bar graph shows up when you input directions and it shows you everything from the relative time it’ll take you to get to your destination. It’ll show you estimates of how long it’ll have taken a half hour earlier and how long it’ll take in the next few hours. The bar graph will either be highlighted in green, yellow, or red to show traffic conditions. As mentioned, the feature is coming to Android but no word yet when it’ll hit iOS devices.

Source: The Verge