A Small, Versatile Way to Record Your Life Among all the vast booths at the International CES displaying 4K televisions and devices by big names like Sony and Panasonic was GoPro, a versatile digital-camera maker that was mostly unheard of just a few years ago. GoPro was showing its latest camera, the GoPro Hero 3+, which has a longer battery life and higher-resolution camera than its predecessors. The camera can also connect to a free, downloadable application that allows users to control the GoPro Hero 3+ from a smartphone, change settings and shoot video and photos. While GoPro's cameras and the dozens of accessories it sells are impressive, what's more spectacular is how quickly the company has risen from obscurity to being one of the biggest camera-makers in the US. When I wrote about GoPro last year, Nick Woodman told me the creation of the camera was an invention that came at the "right place, right time." He made his first very crude GoPro when he went to Indonesia on a surfing trip in 2002 and wanted to take pictures of a friend in the water. Since then, GoPro has sold millions of cameras and now sells dozens of accessories that allow people to take the camera into extreme conditions. Next to the GoPro booth was a smaller company that makes an accessory called the Steadicam Curve, which allows people to shoot very smooth and silky video with their GoPros using a counterweight built into the Steadicam Curve. The accessory comes in at least four different colors, including red, black, silver and blue, and costs $100. Given how quickly GoPro is growing in popularity, I'm sure we'll see even more third-party companies selling accessories for this camera in the future.