Gadgetell Quick Review

Pros: Small form factor, does HD video capture. Macro mode is welcome for close up shots.Cons: Low light performance is not great. No lens cover.The Crux: If you’re looking to shoot a couple of things really quickly and want it in HD, this is a terrific device. It’s not going to replace a real HD camcorder, but is very good for a pocket HD cam.

Full, in-depth review with video samples after the break.

Casio is making this case: Every time you press the shutter button, your camera captures just one moment. But was it the right moment? For far too many of us, the answer is usually no.

Last January at CES, you might recall my excitement for the Casio EX-F1, a fantastic $999 shooter that captured still images at 60 FPS (frames per second) and movies at 1,200 FPS. The benefit of this kind of speed is capturing *the* moment. Not the one where your kid closed his eyes, not the one where you can’t tell if they hit the ball, but the very instant it happened. It is like an instant recall in photo and video form.

The marketing team at Casio printed the 60 frames they took with the FX1 of a skateboarder doing his thing and put up the pictures for all to see. In that one second, you could see some great shots and the other 58 or so were what I normally end up with: missed moments. The FX1 could almost be considered a time machine allowing you to go back and pick the right moment.

Casio has done it again with the new EX-FH20.

Follow to see how Casio is changing the way we take pictures and video.

Product: Jabra SP700.Price and Availability: $99 out nowPros: Doesn’t make you look like a tool. Easily answer calls in your car. Makes not upgrading to the expensive new cars “tech package” a lot easier to live with. Sound is great, surround sound through speakers is even better.Cons: no air of superiority that comes with a headset (wait, maybe that should be in the Pros?)Overall: I’ve already ordered two for my cars. I give it 10/10

If you are like me, you’ll go to almost any length no to wear your bluetooth headset. An incoming call when I am in the car sends me fumbling around my front seats for the tiny headset, the awkward install into my ear and then my eyes are back on the road. Surely that is safer than just answer the phone?

Canon is adding three new camcorders into its VIXIA high-definition line-up, the VIXIA HF11 with dual flash memory, and the HG20 and HG21 with hard drive storage. All three camcorders brag of 24Mbps bit rate recording which is the highest possible bit rate that can be achieved in the AVCHD format.

And since high-definition video recording would require lots of storage, Canon has put in 32GB of internal flash drive into the HF1 plus an SDHC card slot for even more, while the HG21 and HG20 got 120GB and 60GB hard disk drives respectively. Other features of these camcorders include an HD Video Lens, HD CMOS Image Sensor that allows full HD (1920 x 1080) image capture, DIGIC DV II Image Processor, Instant Auto Focus and SuperRange Optical Image Stabilization feature.