This week's gadgets
Casio Exilim Hi-Speed EX-FS10S
Casio’s latest innovation is a camera that not only takes still images and video, but also helps you improve your golf swing.
The Casio Exilim Hi-Speed EX-FS10S uses video playback of your golf swing to help you correct all those bad habits hampering your game.
The device uses its ability to shoot short high-speed movies at up to 1,000 frames per second to pinpoint exactly what you’re doing wrong, while guidelines on the screen will show you exactly how and where you should be moving to correct it. If you want to see it on a bigger screen, simply hook the camera up to your TV.
Aside from replacing the local golf pro, the slimline camera takes shots at a resolution of up to 10 megapixels, records high-definition video, has a 3x optical zoom and is compatible with SDHC cards. It is available in Japan from November 26th.
http://www.casio.com
Sony Eye-Pet (€33.99)
Augmented reality seems to be everywhere these days and the gaming world is ready to take advantage of the new trend. The Eye Pet is Sony’s latest game for the PlayStation 3, which brings a virtual pet into your living room.
Using the PlayStation Eye camera, your computer pet will interact with you and your surroundings as if it was in your living room. It’s hard to describe exactly what the pet is. It’s not anything you could pick up in your local pet shop – but Sony promises something “magical” and, like most virtual characters, it can be personalised.
One for the younger family members, you can play games with the Eye Pet, draw together or simply look after it the way you would a normal pet – feed it, wash it, take it for a health check-up every now and again. All the responsibility of pet ownership without the 2am wake-up calls.
http://www.eyepet.com
Canon Legria HF21 (€990)
Canon’s Legria HF21 is a full high-definition camcorder that will take as much as 24 hours of footage before running out of memory and has a battery life that won’t let you down at a crucial moment.
You can choose to shoot straight to a memory card or record to the 64GB internal memory, while extra features have been included to ensure that the shots are sharp – even if the camera angles aren’t quite as professional. Face detection, dynamic optical image stablisation and low-light shooting have been built in to the compact device to help guarantee good footage with minimal effort.
Using the video snapshot feature, which records a few seconds of footage at a time, you can put together short movies on the camera itself, so there’s no need to go near a PC.
And, with the addition of a waterproof case, you can use the HF21 for underwater shooting.
http://www.canon.ie
