The Gadgets and Gear We Couldn't Get Enough of This Month

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If you love your small FujiFilm X100S or Leica M but have big ol' Hobbit hands, get one of these grips from Really Right Stuff. The lightweight metal add-on makes your compact shooter much easier to handle. RRS's kits are modular: a body plate screws onto the bottom of the camera, and the grip screws onto the plate. Modules are sized to fit particular camera models, so choose your weapon. -Michael Calore

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There's no shortage of photo-enhancing tools for aspiring smartphone photographers. Few, however, are as thoughtful, well-designed, and downright useful as Moment's new line of external lenses. Slap a super-thin metal plate to the back of your iPhone, iPad, Galaxy, or Nexus device, and let the company's 18mm wide-angle and 60mm telephoto lenses ($99 each) do wonders from your portraits and landscapes. -Bryan Gardiner

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Elvis never crooned into one. And it's certainly not as recognizable as the iconic Model 55 (pdf). Still, for me, Shure's rugged 710a crystal mic is no less handsome. Following its 1949 debut, 'the Rex' (as it was known) was adopted by everyone from ham radio enthusiasts to high school principals. I snagged this crimson beauty at an online auction, and its silky smooth response only made me hate my voice a little. -Bryan Gardiner

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One of the best parts of our jobs here at WIRED is that we get to test all the new things as soon as they come out. But we often only get a few days to play with something before having to write about it. That can be difficult-getting a clear assessment of an object's worth when you have to crank out a written review in less than a week. Some products only show their true colors after several weeks, months, or years to experience them, live with them, play with them, and wear them. That's what we've gathered here-things we've been testing and love, or the stuff from our lives that we own and never want to let go. This is the gear we want to take everywhere. This is the stuff we want to cook breakfast for. These are the things we love.