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Hisy Bluetooth Camera Shutter

If this year's Oscars taught us anything, it's that we've reached peak selfie. But wouldn't Ellen and friends have looked a lot better if Bradley Cooper had a little more room to fit everyone into the frame? That's where the $24.99 Hisy Bluetooth camera shutter would've come in handy. It's a tiny wireless remote that lets you position your iPhone camera and snap photos from afar. It's a great iPhone accessory for capturing the perfect selfie, and useful enough to interest mobile photography enthusiasts, so it earns our Editors' Choice

Compatibility, Design, and Setup

The Hisy works with iOS devices only, so on second thought, it wouldn't have worked with Ellen's Android-based Galaxy Note 3. That said, it's compatible with most devices running iOS 7.0 or later. It should have no trouble working with the iPhone 4s or later, the third-generation iPad or later, and the fifth-generation iPod touch or later. I had no trouble using it with an iPhone 5s( at Amazon) and an iPad Air($389.99 at eBay). I was also able to pair the Hisy with an Android smartphone, but it didn't actually do anything.

The device itself is a small round button…

Hisy Bluetooth Camera Shutter

If this year's Oscars taught us anything, it's that we've reached peak selfie. But wouldn't Ellen and friends have looked a lot better if Bradley Cooper had a little more room to fit everyone into the frame? That's where the $24.99 Hisy Bluetooth camera shutter would've come in handy. It's a tiny wireless remote that lets you position your iPhone camera and snap photos from afar. It's a great iPhone accessory for capturing the perfect selfie, and useful enough to interest mobile photography enthusiasts, so it earns our Editors' Choice

Compatibility, Design, and Setup

The Hisy works with iOS devices only, so on second thought, it wouldn't have worked with Ellen's Android-based Galaxy Note 3. That said, it's compatible with most devices running iOS 7.0 or later. It should have no trouble working with the iPhone 4s or later, the third-generation iPad or later, and the fifth-generation iPod touch or later. I had no trouble using it with an iPhone 5s( at Amazon) and an iPad Air($389.99 at eBay). I was also able to pair the Hisy with an Android smartphone, but it didn't actually do anything.

The device itself is a small round button…

Review: HISY Bluetooth camera phone remote

Like 'em or not, it looks like selfies are here to stay. Using the just-released HISY, however, they don't have to possess that "I'm holding my phone out at the end of my arm" look. It's a simple Bluetooth device that lets you prop your smartphone up and get out in front of it, then remotely trigger the phone's camera once you're in place. I recently got my hands on a HISY, and gave it a try.

Pairing the device with the phone is simple. The first time you use it, you just make sure the phone's Bluetooth is on, hold down the HISY's single button until the phone detects it, then select it for pairing.

From there, every time you activate the camera, you can take a photo – or start and stop recording video – just by pressing that same button. No app is required, and you can still use the phone's onscreen shutter release button when preferred.

As far as usability goes, I can definitively state that yep, it works just as advertised. Although it will probably never replace the user's extended arm for those spur-of-the-moment "Hey, lemme get a shot with you guys" pics, it could…