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Portable wizardry from WiLL. (Upfront).


The SV-AV30 is the latest portable wizardry wiz·ard·ry  
n. pl. wiz·ard·ries
1. The art, skill, or practice of a wizard; sorcery.

2.
a. A power or effect that appears magical by its capacity to transform:
 in the WiLL line of designer products that are supposed to appeal to a hipper, trendier audience (mainly women, in fact) by combining funky design with useful features. The first wave of products did this but looked pretty darn odd in the process, but not so the WiLL SVAV30. Seriously compact and looking very much like one of those scanner thingies off a Star Trek Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism.  movie set, the SD multi-camera is capable of taking both still and moving digital images but has other very neat functions bolted on.

The first SD Multi Camera was out in January in Japan, and now the AV30 goes a step further, putting out MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 4 movies at 15 frames per second and 320 x 240 pixels (2.5 times quicker than the previous model) as well as incorporating a 2x digital zoom. There's an hour and 30 minutes of recording time with the included battery and it comes with an "AV cradle" to stick the thing in for a recharge -- this also doubles as a no-fuss hookup hookup,
n in the Trager method of therapy, the practitioner enters into a meditative state along with the patient, which allows him or her to work more intuitively and to feel subtle changes in the patient's movement and tissue texture.
 to the TV. Just as with the previous machine, still images are recorded at VGA (Video Graphics Array) The display standard for the PC. All PC display adapters support VGA, and Windows machines boot up in "VGA mode" before switching to higher resolutions.  (640 x 480 pixels).

The handy little thing can also act as an SD memory card portable audio player A portable audio player is a personal, electronic device that allows the user to listen to recorded audio while mobile. Portable audio players became possible in the 1970s and continue to be developed today. , of course, so you can chuck out your CD Walkman or MD player (there's an integral speaker, too), and also as a digital IC voice recorder for those all-important high-flying executive memos you'll be getting or making, such as "Honey, your dinner's in the fridge."

More info: www.mafsushita.co.jp/corp/news/official.data/data.dir/jn02101-53/jn02 l015-3.html
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