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Perfect for crawling through a graveyard to film that new grave robbing reality series your trying to pitch, comes this new pistol grip night vision video camera.  Using a ring of infrared LED’s the lens is capable of illuminating the subject matter regardless of lighting, or lack there of.

Starting with a weak 32Mb’s of internal storage, you can upgrade to 2GB’s using a SD card allowing you to shoot in 640×480 resolution.  The video camera works in the daytime just fine and automatically switches to NV when the moods strikes appropriate.

All this mischief can be yours for $113 from FireBox if it wasn’t currently sold out.

[via OhGizmo]

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For all you 7up gulping, extreme hardcore junkies out there you might want to take note of Tachyon’s latest helmet cam, the XC Micro.  They’re laying claim to the ‘industry’s smallest helmet camera’ that boasts waterproof housing (up to 34′), a shockproof design, wide field of vision (90 degrees) and the ability to capture up to 4 hours of video on 2 AAA batteries.  Storage comes by way of a microSD card slot that accepts up to a 32GB card and video resolution maxes out at 640×480 at 30fps.   Until the end of November they’re offering the XC Micro at a special price of $100, which includes a universal mount and fastening strap.

Bad ass speed skateboarding video after the ‘leap’

…Continue reading: Tachyon’s XC Micro Camera Is The Industry’s Smallest (videos)

Although the details are few and far between, it looks like Flip, the folks behind those cutesy pocket sized camcorders, are about to release a set top box for the living room TV.  But unlike the Apple TV and a many set top boxes this one won’t be Internet connected, at least according to the pics.  Nope, you’ll plug a USB stick into your laptop and wireless stream your recorded films to the main unit and the third component will act as a remote.

More pics after the ‘leap’ …Continue reading: Gadget Leak: Flip Share TV Lets You View Your Home Movies Wirelessly

When the Joby GorillaPod hit the scene some time ago, it amazed consumers worldwide with its tenacious approach to all things tripod related.  Capable of countless angles and poses, the Joby GorillaPod is a must buy for anyone that owns a digital camera or camcorder. …Continue reading: Joby GorillaPod Flexible Tripod Review

As an absolute alternative to the Flip camcorder series and other name brand models, the Vivitar WaterProof NightVision Camcorder is definitely worth some investigation.

Priced at a crazy cheap $50, the camcorder weighs just .8lbs, supports VGA resolution up to 640 x 480 at 30 fps, and has a x8 digital zoom.  It also has a SD slot and a 1.8″ preview screen.

Most importantly however, is the nightvision feature, which is largely unfound in products of this nature.  Throw in the waterproof casing and you have yourself the makings of a seriously awesome mini-cam.

So where’s the catch?

[via CraziestGadgets]

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Talk about useless crap.  I mean, whoa I totally need this.  I suppose if you were doing a short film about this gadget or the wonders of iPhone video, then it would maybe be cool?  The whole point of shooting video on your phone is to not need something like this.

Priced at $300 I would have trouble holding back malicious laughter if I saw some dude toting this thing around pretending to be professional.  I beg to be proven otherwise as I am continuously amazed at consumerism.

[via BoingBoing]

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Over the summer I saw a bunch of cool expensive looking RC jets and helicopters.  This one dude was even flying his RC helicopter upside down and doing all these cool stunts.

The “not a toy” SkyShutter Helicam RC Helicopter will allow you to capture some seriously sick aerial footage and is quite the technological marvel.  Two people are required to control this thing properly, as one person flies the copter and the other controls the camera.  The electric powered helicopter weighs 30lbs and is capable of carrying up to 6lbs of camera gear from SLR’s to decent HD cams.

Once the camera is affixed to the helicopter it can tilted and panned to produce some truly professional shots you’d often associate with real helicopter footage.  Just don’t ask for this for Christmas as it costs $9,000.

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Today, I read an article that made me question my own sanity.

I read all about the Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320, and when you hear what this is and connect it to earlier work, then you’re going to have a serious problem yourself.  Because by the time I finish talking about this you’ll wonder the same thing I did:  namely, maybe Thanko’s Underwater USB Camera wasn’t so lunatic after all.

The Liquid Image Scuba Series HD320, you see, is a diving facemask with a side-mounted HD video camera.  All you have to do is line up the crosshairs on the mask with the thing you want to photograph, then press the button on the mask to take the footage.  It’s the equivalent of a five megapixel camera and can go as far down as 115 feet.

You can get one of these beauties via West Marine for just $300, but there are lower cost versions available.

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A new rumor has burst onto the scene out of the Kodak company, and everyone’s frantically trying to figure out just what exactly it is.  A “highly placed source” has promised that Kodak’s got something really big planned for the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show this January in Las Vegas, but what exactly it is, no one’s sure.

In fact, the only piece of solid data involved is that it’ll be bowing right alongside the successor to the current Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder.

Possibilities at this point could be most anything–a storage device, a new DVD burner that works with the Zi8’s successor, anything.  In fact, this could be little more than a giant pot of smoke and mirrors designed to give Kodak free publicity by having gadget bloggers like us endlessly try to play guessing games about what it’ll actually be until CES hits.

I guess either way, we’ll have to wait for CES to find out how this one finally boils out.

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Oh Thanko…have I told you lately that I love you…r insane brand of gadget lunacy?

The boys and girls out at Thanko have truly done it again.  They’re offering up a waterproof USB camera that will remain waterproof up to 20 meters deep, which is approximately sixty feet.

It’s got four gigs of onboard memory, USB, stores files in AVI at 736X280 resolution at 20 frames per second.  Even better, the battery takes up to two full hours of nonstop running to go blank, so you’ll have plenty of time to learn all its various features.

But yes, you read that right…they’re actually offering up a waterproof diving USB camera.  I admit there are plenty of other possible uses for it, but the fact that you can actually use it as a diving camera strikes me as a bit outlandish.  But if you ever wanted to hunt gold in the Caribbean, and don’t mind shelling out a hundred and forty bucks worth of that gold in advance, this has GOT to be the way to do it.

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