Now this is something cool that has washed up on the beach, and if I had not been looking closely I would missed it for what it was. The ZRAD Secret Pen-Shaped Pocket Spy Camera Digital Video Recorder would probably be easy to mistake for an ordinary pen, but beneath its outer shell lies much more than meets the eyes (so to say).
The DVR Spy Camera ( $249 at Vavolo) is a complete self-contained video recorder, with 1 gb storage. The video is recorded at 360×280 in AVI, and the lithium battery can give you up to 3 hours of recording time. The unit also sports a high quality microphone, allowing sounds to be picked up from 10 ft away. To upload the video on a computer you take the pen apart and plug it into a USB port. This thing is so advanced that you can even write with it. Until I get a crate of paper to wash up on the Beach I may not utilize the pen aspect of this device, but for the rest of it I can think of a lot of great uses.
Aloha from the Beach,
greg
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