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LAS VEGAS — Wired magazine’s John Bradley takes a look at the new Extreme Sports goggles from Liquid Image.

These goggles have an HD camera mounted right between the eyes, so you can record 1080p video or high-speed 720p video at 60 frames per second. The videos get stored on a microSD card plugged into the side.

They’d be well suited for shooting the kind of crazy stunts seen in our gallery of gnarly POV videos.

Liquid Image offers versions for snow sports, cycling, scuba, and even swimming. They sell for $400 and will be available in February.

Liquid Image

See Also:

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• Armor Plated Helmet Cam Captures Jackass Antics
• Helmet Cam: Surfing the Tube at Sunset – Video – Wired
• Helmet Mount Puts Cameras Up-Top and (First) Personal

An award-winning writer specializing in technology, science and business, Dylan Tweney is a senior editor at Wired.com and publisher of tinywords, the world’s smallest magazine.
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LAS VEGAS — Samsung is first out of the gate with at CES 2011 with a brand-new, easy-to-use camcorder. Folded down, the simple cylindrical shape of the HMX-Q10 looks a lot like a thermos flask or a flashlight. Open it up and you see just how much Samsung has packed in.

Almost everything is controlled from the 2.75mm touch-screen, which itself features an orientation-detecting design so the picture and therefore the controls is always the right way up, just like a modern smartphone. This also means that left-handers can flip it upside down and still have full control. Samsung calls this a “switch-grip”.

As for pictures, you can shoot up to 1080i and 720p at 60fps, and capture 4.9 megapixel stills. These are all recorded onto an SDHC memory card, for as long as the battery lasts: anywhere between four and 34 hours depending on picture-quality settings.

The HMX-Q10 also comes with all the gimmicks you’d expect on a consumer-grade camera: face-detection, a scene-detection mode for exposure adjustments, and a low price. When the camera goes on sale in February 2011, it will cost just $300.

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I-O Data’s new hard drive not only hooks up to your computer but connects direct to your camcorder and slurps in any video that might be there, all without an intermediary PC.

The 500GB will work with the JVC Everio, the Sanyo Zakuti Sony’s Handycams, and hooks up via USB. There is also a port for connecting it to a TV via HDMI cable, so you can watch the footage straight back, again without a computer.

Weirdly, the specs say it won’t work with a Mac, but we’d guess that it probably works fine as a hard-drive: you just won’t get any fancy extra features. The HDPN-U500 (it’s clunky name) will be available in “late September” for 14,600, or around $170 of your American dollars.

Portable Hard Disk Camcorder [I-O Data via Akihabara News]

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A new camcorder from Sony lets movie-makers use SLR lenses to shoot pro-level footage for just $2,000. The NEX-VG10 uses the same APS-C sensor as the NEX mirrorless line-up, and also uses their E lens-mount, Sony’s equivalent of the compact micro-four-thirds format. With an adapter, you can also use any of Sony’s Alpha mount lenses.

This is pretty big news. The recent buzz has been all about video-shooting DSLRs, with their big chips and fast lenses giving movie-camera-like results on the cheap. The SLR form-factor, though, is less than ideal for movies, as is the (sometimes artificially) short length of clips allowed.

The NEX-VG10 is all about shooting movies (although it can also snap 14MP stills). You get 1080p at 60 frames-per-second (50 fps in Europe, and apparently no option to use the cinema-standard 24p). Footage is recorded onto a Sony Memory Stick or SD-card in AVCHDTM format. Sound comes in via a Quad Capsule Spatial Array Stereo Microphone (sound from four mics is combined to make a stereo mix) or through an external socket, and the LCD screen has a sharp 921,000-dot resolution.

Sony hasn’t left out stills shooters, though. There is even an external flash included in the box. You’ll be limited to JPEG photos, though: there is no RAW capability.

It looks like a good deal, although a read of the spec-sheet shows that the differences between movie and stills cameras is rather arbitrary: the sensors, image processors and lenses are all the same. The only real difference is hardware shape, and the switching off of features like RAW in software.

The camera will be available to buy in September, and ships with the image-stabilized E18-200mm 3.5-6.3 lens.

Sony NEX Store [Sony Style]

Press release [Photography Bay]

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