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Acadalus, The $5,000 Self-Leveling Tripod Head

Dr. Carl Koch was sick of fiddling with his tripod to get his camera level, so he spent the next four years inventing and designing the Acadalus, a self-leveling tripod head. Instead of adjusting knobs and levers until the little spirit-level bubble sits

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/acadalus-the-5000-self-leveling-tripod-head/

you just pop the camera onto the Acadalus and wait a couple seconds.