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Camcorder
\n accessory manufacturer Bella has just announced a new device that will
\n let you toss those MiniDV cassettes straight out of your bag and replace
\n them with your iPod or nearly any other USB 2.0-compliant storage system.
\n The Catapult, as it’s known, is an paperback-sized digital encoder
\n that plugs into any standard or HD camcorder with a FireWire port and
\n processes the video as you’re recording, eliminating the need to convert
\n your footage later on.<\/p>\n
from the Engadget<\/a><\/p>\n This is something we have been fantasizing Impossible, we were informed by helpful Perhaps the Catapult solves this problem by "encoding" the At any rate, this whole mobile recording bottleneck is thanks to Steve Garfield<\/a> for the head’s up<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Camcorder accessory manufacturer Bella has just announced a new device that will let you toss those MiniDV cassettes straight out of your bag and replace them with your iPod or nearly any other USB 2.0-compliant storage system. The Catapult, as … Continue reading
\n about<\/a> since
\n we got the idea of attaching a tiny camera and microphone to our glasses
\n and recording our whole life in real time. Why not, we wondered, capture
\n the resulting video directly to the 30 gig hard-drive we habitually carried
\n around on our person – our iPod?<\/p>\n
\n commenters<\/a>, for
\n a number of reasons, the most convincing of which was that iPod hard-drives
\n only rotate at 5400 rps, which is not fast enough to capture digital
\n video in real time.<\/p>\n
\n signal in a format that can be smoothly recorded at 5400, but we would
\n have to see it in action to believe it. Plus, we still haven’t gotten
\n over our deep disillusionment that our
\n LAST iPod<\/a> only lasted 13 months
\n before it turned into a $300 doorstop.<\/p>\n
\n only a temporary workaround until we have wireless mobile feeds directly
\n from glasses cams on people with MUCH more interesting lives than the
\n Dowbrigade, onto the Net, live and in color, up close and personal,
\n uncut and raw, each wired individual a permanent personal channel available
\n to subscribers or browsers, human nodes in the ultimate reality show.<\/p>\n