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We at 800HighTech have just extended our Digital Video Camcorder arsenal and added five new top end video camcorders from Panasonic which are now available for finance. We selected cameras that would appeal to a wide spectrum of video enthusiasts.

On deployment to some far off land, having a camera that is compact and and all in one is necessary. However, we also wanted to make available the latest and greatest camcorders on the market as well. For those who have a true interest in creating movies, we have the equipment you need.

The internet has expanded rapidly with the popular trend of displaying your videos for the world to see. YouTube is apart of our everyday vocabulary and almost a daily visit for most users.

Creating videos that capture your travels and being able to present them professionally to family and friends back home is a great hobby to take on. Start advancing your part time career as a director with these hot video camcorders.
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Let’s face it, not everyone can afford to go out and blow hundreds of dollars on a versatile touch screen or home automation system in order to simplify their life. Whether a hardcore audiophile or casual TV watcher, somehow we still end up with way more remotes and portable handheld devices than we can handle of course resulting in many valuable hours wasted searching when one is lost.

The Multimedia Remote Control Wrangler (aka Remote Wrangler) has taken a novel approach to remote control storage that will be sure to take the world by storm, that’s right it’s not a jock strap, it is in fact an ingenious piece of headgear specifically designed to keep you remotes under control.

Made from a stretchable fabric and utilizing Velcro for its anti-gravitational properties the device can store all manner of remotes and gadgets round the users dome. As an added bonus it also doubles as a battery-powered temporal massager, what more could a couch potato want!

There are two styles available to suit ones taste, first is the red white and blue “Retro Sportsman” model, which has proven to be very popular in the Asian market. The other is the demure “Antique Olive ” model that caters to the conservative crowd who may prefer a more discreet and formal appearance.

So if you’re single (or would like to be), have no friends whatsoever, and don’t even mind personal humiliation, keep an eye out for the Remote Wrangler to hit electronics prank departments sometime in the distant future.

Over the last fours years IO2 Technology have been developing the Heliodisplay. Originally shown as a prototype back in 2003, the Heliodisplay third generation (M3) model is now on the market. Like a computer monitor or television, this mid air display can project any video signal coming from most sources with one main difference, there is no screen.

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A projector is focused onto a layer of mist in mid-air, resulting in a two-dimensional display that appears to float. This is similar in principle to the cinematic technique of rear projection but with no screen to display the image, the Heliodisplay produces an effect much like a hologram.

Images are visible under typical indoor lighting and are about as bright as the first-generation rear projection TV’s. The display works best under controlled lighting such as in museums, movie theaters, and most office spaces, although it is not recommended for outside use IO2 does build outdoor systems for enterprise solutions.

The Heliodisplay’s default resolution is 800 x 600 but supports up to 1280 x 1024, depending on the model, a 22 to 42 inch image can be projected floating above the device, this can be viewed from 150 degree viewing angle in front of the projector or from both front and rear, again depending on the model.

Another amazing feature of the Heliodisplay is the ability to be used as a touch-screen monitor to navigate and interact with content. When connected to a PC using a standard USB cable and the software provided you can use your finger, pen, pencil or any object to select and navigate as you would a conventional touch-screen, the only difference is that there is no physical screen.

The Japanese love technology so much that now even sex toys are on the cutting edge.

The gPod vibrator, is designed to respond automatically to sounds picked up by an accompanying handset, which can plug into anything from a telephone to a music player to a television. The sounds it receives are then detected by low, medium and high music frequency sensors and sent on to a distinctly phallic joystick.

When activated, the user experiences a chorus of vibrations that correspond to the chosen music or voices. According to Ichiro Kameda, the gPod’s inventor,

“You can use it in many ways, for example hooking it up to your mobile phone… so one of the ideas is that you can use it here in Tokyo when your boyfriend in New York is talking to you on the phone.”

Kameda said he had spent four years trying to design a product when he hit upon the concept, although he declined to say how the idea came to him.

The gPod made a splash at the first-ever sex toy expo in Tokyo, Joymind were just one of the nearly 160 companies or groups displaying their products and services at the three day Adult Treasure Expo 2007, also known as SEXPO, where they announced retail prices at ¥25,000, or approx $243.

There is an already accessory on the market for the ipod which incorporates the same kind of technology. Although it’s difficult to say who developed the technology first, Apple started fighting the Japanese company when the latter started applying for trademarks around the world, eventually sending Japanese lawyer and repeated requests to stop using the gpod trademark. The company laughed off Apples requests and said they would fight if Apple ever decides to sue.

It seems the widley popular Nintendo Wii has surpassed its gaming expectations and is now being used by a Vancouver Gym as a Virtual Personal Trainer.

The Canadian Health Club Studio 55 is offering a new form of exercise for people bored with the treadmill or cycling classes - The Wii Workout Station. Clients at the health club are encouraged to use the Wii as part of circuit training, warm-up or cool-down, with the system set up in a 400 square-foot theater room with a large projection screen.

While some other gyms have combined stationary bikes with PlayStations and Xboxes in a bid to win younger clients, a spokesman for Nintendo Canada said this is the first they have heard of a gym using the Wii in its schedule.

Nathan Mellalieu, the owner of Studeo 55, said he decided to bring video games into a fitness environment after watching how much fun some children were having and, more importantly, seeing them sweating.

“We are always trying to break down paradigms and keep things fresh. It is used here to break up the monotony of traditional workouts,” he told Reuters.

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There seems to be a lot of hype surrounding the newly released Apple iPhone. Boasted by Apple as a “Revolutionary Mobile Telephone” the iPhone packs new technologies never seen before in a cell phone. well, this isn’t entirely true. Sure the iPhone has Wifi capability and uses Safari explorer to access the web as if using your home PC or Mac but it certainly has its limitations, with the phone only available on contract for 1 year from AT&T and add-ons and widgets only available from registered suppliers and manufacturers, hackers are desperately trying to crack the iPhone to open up its capabilities.

Enter the OpenMoko Neo 1973(pictured:above left, against the iPhone:above right), first seen last November the Neo 1973 shares a lot of similarities with the iPhone except one very important specification, the Neo 1973 is the only cell phone based on open hardware specifications, this means that all the hardware and software code is open to developers, engineers and designers to build on and potentially create things even far more exciting than the current Apple iPhone. Upgrading your phone applications becomes as simple as downloading a new ring tone or installing new software on your PC or Mac. (Click Here To Read More…)

With a few new additions to 800hightech digital camera range, I thought we would take some time to take a look at what Nikon digital cameras have to offer for those interested in photography. Nikon has long been a leader in photography and still remains a professional camera brands in the digital photography realm. Nikon produces a wide range of cameras to suit everyone’s needs. We at 800hightech have selected and made available three different models, the compact digital CoolPix P5000, the D40x Digital SLR and the D80 Digital SLR, which are ideal for military members who are interested in photography and cover technical ranges from beginner to professional.

Digital SLR Cameras

A digital single-lens reflex camera (digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that operates on the same optical and mechanical principles as a modern electronic autofocus 35mm film single-lens reflex camera. The key difference is that the film is replaced with a CCD or CMOS image sensor plus accompanying electronics, thus creating images digitally in-camera, without the need to first chemically develop a latent image on film.

We will explore advance Nikon Digital SLR and SLR-like Cameras. The Nikon CoolPix 5000 is a SLR-like Digital Camera, while the Nikon D40X and the Nikon D80. Considering taking up or enhancing your photography hobby? Here are some new cameras that will take your photography to a new level that takes advantage of the newest digital photo technology!

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Sony CyberShot DSC T100 Financed for Military Armed Forces

Welcome newest additions to 800HighTech arsanel, the incredibly popular ultra compact but stylish Sony Cyber-shot DSC-T100 8 megapixel digital Camera. Sony’s T-Series has been one of the most attractive compact digicams since it was introduced. Sony slim dimensions, user-friendly interface, design and built quality make the T-100 Digital Cameras some of the best sellers to date and the highes model in the T-Series. Sporting SONY’s high quality CCD converters and a Carl Zeiss Vario-Tesser lense, the flag ship model the DSC-T100 boasts more functions and settings for the professional photographer also has the largest LCD screen and most powerful zoom in the T-series digital camera.

“There’s a generation of style-conscious, tech-savvy people who want the brands and products in their lives to reflect who they are,” said Phil Lubell, director of marketing for digital cameras at Sony Electronics. “Our new Cybershot DSC T100 camera can give these customers the form factor and advanced technologies they’re looking for.”/blockquote>
While the T100 is a snap to use, there’s a surprising amount of performance stuffed into its all-metal shell. Thanks to the Bionz image processor, the T100 is quick to start up and shut down, and the shutter is responsive and quick to focus on the intended subject. Its D-Range Optimizer minimizes blown highlights that are the bane of other digicams, while capturing a wider range of tones. The T100 is also in a league of its own when it comes to transferring images from the camera to your computer over the included USB cable at speeds blazing over 10 times faster than other cameras!

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Active Inc., a Tokyo-based optical component manufacturer, is working on a transparent liquid crystal optical film as a replacement for backlit LCDs. A see-through composite LCDdisplay works just like traditional liquid crystal displays which are transparent until you run a current through them, at which point all the crystals in the liquid align and become opaque. I guess the difference here is that the screen is backlit by ambient light, which is a neat idea with questionable consumer practicality, but its stain-glass effect is impressive. Transparent TVs have always been a vision portrayed in the best scifi and futuristic movies such as Minority Report.

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American soldiers have been using laser scopes for a long time, to make their shots more accurate. But what if the bullets themselves were steered by lasers, and able to turn on a dime? That’s the idea behind a new, $7.5 million Darpa initiative to be a “laser-guided bullet” recently unclassified. DARPA have justified plans to begin funding research into designing a laser guided bullet, the 7.5 million dollar initiative could see science fiction become a reality with bullets actually able to change trajectory in mid-flight. The hope with this technology is that the compact targeting systems embedded in the projectiles will enable,

Overmatching fire power and significantly improve first site effectiveness in engaging distant enemy forces.

The goal appears to be to “enable low-cost, high performance guided projectiles” that take advantage of “guidance and targeting systems.” While the idea of a laser-guided bullet conjures images of soldiers marching across fields, spraying ammo that never misses, the report mentions that the technology is intended to be used by Special Forces and Army Sniper Teams. So, boiled down, we’re talking a bullet that’s going to be fired at long range by a sniper and be able to adjust its trajectory mid-flight, as to have a better chance of hitting the target.

To make this possible researchers will have to design whole new guidance technologies, such as MEMS based thrusters and initial side thrusting technologies with sufficient authority to move projectiles in flight. The bullet will need high stress tolerant electronics and new targeting systems robust to field operations under a variety of conditions.

The developments in fire power have continued to make warfare more precise, could laser guided-bullets be the next generation of ammunition?

Recently added to our arsenal of computers and laptops are two lightweight powerful laptop notebooks customized for the budget buyer and deployed/travels often. The new custom laptops are from the Acer notebook line-up. These two laptops are very capable PC and have a 14.1-Inch WXGA Widescreen LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) that incorporates Acer’s CrystalBrite technology for a much better picture. It can achieve a picture resolution of 1280 x 800, and can display widescreen materials in original 16:9 formatting. And that’s just the screen! I’ll touch on CrystalBrite a little later.

Staying within your budget doesn’t mean forsaking performance. The Brite Star notebooks come equipped with everything you need to work, study or play, at a price that is sure to please. Equipped with a powerful flows seamlessly from the office to your home. Plus, with its built in stereo speakers and wireless LAN antenna, these completely mobile units are capable of handling any duty from here to there. Get all of the performance and features you need to satisfy your office, home office, and personal needs with the Brite Star notebooks.

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Sony Corp. has announced that at least 380 NEW Sony Playstation 3 games will hit the market this business year, in plans to bump up demand for the Playstation 3 gaming console that has so far lost out to widely popular Nintendo Wii.

According to game magazine publisher Enterbrain and research firm NPD, the Nintendo Wii game console has been outselling the PS3 by three to one in Japan and more than two to one in the United States so far this year. The cheaper price of the Nintendo Wii and the lack of exciting games available on PS3 have been widely cited as the main reason for the PS3 weak performance.

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A UK based company ‘Jade Intergration’ released one of the worlds smallest thin-client computers. The ‘Jack PC’ fits into any standard size wall socket and can be powered from an Ethernet connection, this break through in technology allows the PC to run on just 5 watts of power instead of the usual 80 watts it takes to run a regular computer, making the ‘Jack PC’ extremely efficient computer.

Originally designed over a year ago by ‘Chip PC Technologies’ the device has been tested and perfected. Managing director of Jade Intergation, Andy MacLellan believes the device is,

“one of the biggest developments in PCs that we have seen” and is one of the “ever-growing range of thin clients, which are rapidly replacing PCs as a more effective desktop computing solution for modern businesses”.

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NetCam XL - Rugged Design, Beautiful Results

With images up to 2048×1536 in resolution, the new NetCam XL 3MP is the highest quality network camera on the market. Using a 3.1 megapixel sensor, the NetCam XL 3MP is the perfect tool for web attraction, weather monitoring or high definition security camera.

Bring on the cold! NetCam XL can withstand temperatures down to -40° degrees without a heater.

The NetCam XL is the latest generation in the popular NetCam series of network cameras. Designed for both indoor and rugged outdoor installations, the NetCam XL streams video and produces some of the highest quality images found in a network camera.

No computer is required to operate the NetCam XL — it is a standalone solution that can connect to a local network, DSL, cable modem, satellite modem, cellular, wireless Ethernet or even a phone line. You simply browse to its IP address to view live video and access configuration options. Set up is straightforward and simple and NetCam XL is designed to run unattended for years on end.

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The Nintendo DS portable game player is helping Japanese women in Tokyo maximize skin care health. Japanese women soon will be using the Nintendo DS game machine for helpful beauty tip such as taking extra fluids and monitoring skin tones. The dual screened touch panel Nintendo DS has been a big hit with older people and women with new kinds of games such as brainteasers and virtual pet games. The gaming crowd has largely been made up of young men fond of shooting and sports games.

The Nintendo DS skin care software works by the user inputting their daily body temperature and weight by marking a graph that shows up on the touch panel. The beauty navigation software asks questions that the player answers regarding criteria such as skin tone and smoothness, as well as exposure to sunlight and hours of sleep. Advice on a daily regimen for healthy skin pops up on the screen, including directions to drink more water, or to eat apples and ginger, food that had a reputation for warming up the body. Hormonal balance is key for avoiding wrinkles and age spots, and body temperature and weight fluctuations are good indicators for any hormone swings, which can get awry from overwork and stress, according to Konami.

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