New Sanyo - Xacti for YouTube!

Just so that you can eliminate those fuzzy videos YouTube is full of, wonderful folks from Sanyo bring you 'Xacti' what you need: - a new camcorder.

The plug: - As well as being silver, sleek and rather beautiful, the new Xacti DMX-HD1000 will give you almost an hour and a half of HD-quality footage with an 8GB SDHC card. You don't say...

The promised spec?

Full HD (1920 x 1080), 4-megapixel sensor
Supports SD and SDHC, HDMI output, MPEG-4 AVC/H-264 codec
Records up to 1 hr 25 mins full HD quality with 8GB SDHC Card
10 x optical zoom (112.6 x 90 x 54.5 mm)

However, no word on price or availability (so, don't rush to your nearest dealer, not yet) and haven't seen any comments from the dudes lucky enough to try it either. Don't like teasers, therefore, for now,

The Verdict? UnPLUGGED!

[From Akihabara News, via Gizmodo]

steam punk scientific goggles eye piece vintage LARP

This wonderful piece could be yours for about £130 if you hurry up. Lovingly crafyed by Alex from Hove, Sussex, it is offered on eBay for those interested.

In the words of its creator, one first has to imagine "a past that wasn't", the world of steam punk, based on scientific progress, and forged in the super-heated vapours of cog and gear, where zeppelin cities hover over a nation powered by steam. With various fragile treaties with the Martian Imperial Council put into place, more complex research was attempted.

This spawned a new wave of bio-aetheric discoveries, blending the fusion technology of the martians, with human curiosity and ingenuity.

Device has moving armateur, two lenses, one with a working iris. two flashing valves, an adjustable leather strap, and I presume is in working order.

The Verdict: it's a PLUG!