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Samsung’s HMX-U20 and HMX-U15 Camcorders Shoot 1080p On the Cheap [Camcorders]
Feb 20th
Samsung has updated their
HMX-U10 with two new compact camcorders, the HMX-U20 and the HMX-U15. Both shoot 1080p video and feature time lapse recording, but bumping up to the U20 gets you 3x optical zoom.
Nothing too exciting about these updates, but their solid specs ensure that Samsung is keeping up with the Joneses in the compact camcorder category. The U20 pictured here, like the U10 Read more ...
HP V1020h Pocketcam Is Less Pricey Than Its Peers [Pocketcams]
Feb 20th
Yesterday HP announced the V1020h, a 720p-recording, SDHC card-reading pocketcam. It has a built-in USB plug and an HDMI port for sharing, but the real noteworthy tidbit here is the pricetag: $109.
There’s not much more info on the V1020h’s specs quite yet, but at $109 it’s a good $30 cheaper than the least expensive pocketcams we tested in our most recent Battlemodo. It’s purple and it’s slated to hit shelves this summer. [ Read more ...
Create Your Homegrown 3D Avatar Movie for $250 [3D Video]
Feb 17th
Ron and Amy Jo Proctor at Weber State Universe 3D have created a “low cost apparatus for capturing stereoscopic video”. I was sold at apparatus and the total cost: Only $250. Here’s the shopping list.
Read more ...To Catch a Predator Barbie [Toys]
Feb 16th
There are things Man was meant to do and there are things Man wasn’t meant to do. Putting a spycam inside a Barbie, for instance? Such can only unbalance the subtle harmonies of nature in perverse ways.
Essentially a Flip cam shoved into an adiposeless torso cavity, the Barbie Video Girl Doll can record up to 30 minutes of footage through her concealed necklace before playing it back through an LCD embedded in her trapezius. Read more ...
Panasonic’s Six CES-Debuted Camcorders Get Price Tags, Shipping in March [Camcorders]
Feb 10th
Panasonic’s camcorder game was pretty strong in 2009, and now we have the full list of prices to go along with the specs for the three HD cameras and three standard-def cams we saw early in January. Here’s the rundown on all six models:
The zoomy HD cams start at $499.95 for the HDC-SD60, $529.95 for the HDC-TM55 and moving on up to $699.95 for the HDC-HS60.
The Read more ...
