Firebox are selling a Night Vision Digital Video Camera for just £69.95.

Shaped a bit like a pistol, the camera lets you capture still photos and video footage in pitch-black darkness. Though it can only record two minutes of footage on its tiny 32meg onboard memory, an SD upgrade slot allows for expansion up to 2GB, which translates as approximately 75 minutes of footage.

It's unclear how much everyday use you'll get out of a night-vision camera. But it'll be great for gathering video evidence and slapping an ASBO on that fox that keeps tipping up Tech Digest's wheelie bin.

Grab the camera at http://www.firebox.com.

Andrea gets to play with the new super slim £100 HD cam which is available from IWOOTcom . It has less storage than the Flip Mino HD, but is cheaper and has a few extra features.

We will be adding a full text review of the product in the next few days.

Here's our review of the Flip Mino HD plus a few tweaks we'd like to see made to it

JVC has launched its first pocket flash memory camera, the new PICSIO GC-FM1. Combining true eight-megapixel stills and 1080p Full HD video it also offers image stabilisation for minimising camera shake, even when the 4X digital zoom is used, JVC claims.

Videos are recorded in the widely-used MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 format and stored as .MOV files for easy sharing without the need for time-consuming and potentially damaging conversion. Storage is on SD/SDHC memory cards. To suit individual shooting situations, PICSIO provides four video and still recording modes.

About the size of a mobile phone the PICSIO is available in three colours - Black Ice, Blue Steel and Purple Passion and comes with a funky-looking geometric pattern and jewel-like appearance.

The JVC Picsio GC-FM1 is available now for $199.95. UK prices to be confirmed.

PICSIO Feature Highlights

Pocket-Fitting Design in Choice of Colors
"Menu-less" operation
Direct Sending to iTunes/YouTube (.MOV file)
Image Stabilizer
8 Megapixel Still Image Recording
1080P/30fps HD Video Recording
4x Digital Zoom
USB Battery Charging
HDMI™ and AV Output Terminal
SD/SDHC Card Compatible (up to 32GB)
2.0" Colour LCD display

From I Want One of Those comes this slim camcorder. Costing just £99, it incorporates 8 x digital zoom as well as stabilisation and motion detection features.

Alternatively if you don't want to shoot video you can store images or even music on the 64Mb internal memory (with the option of inserting an SD memory card for extra storage). You can connect the camera via USB to transfer pictures/video to your PC and also use the USB port to charge the device.

Key features:

* Ultra-compact HD Camcorder.
* Takes HD video, still photographs and can be used to play MP3s (headphones included).
* 8 x digital zoom.
* 5 megapixel sensor.
* 2.5" LCD fold-out monitor.
* 10 second self-timer.
* Lithium-ion rechargeable battery.
* Can be connected to PC via USB cable (included).
* System requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista.
* File formats: JPEG, AVI, MP3.
* Weight: 86g (without battery).
* Suitable for ages 14 years +
* 100mm x 57mm x 17.9mm

I Want One of Those

JVC has today confirmed the US launch of its latest Everio camcorder the GZ-HM400. We are awaiting confirmation of a UK launch date and we'll update this post as soon as we have it.

The new model packs 32 Gigabytes of internal memory - which can be supplemented by SD/DDHC cards, features a 1/2.33-inch 10.3-megapixel CMOS sensor with Bayer Array RGB Color Filter, is capable of delivering nine-megapixel still images and can output video of 1920 x 1080 Full HD.

The camera's other most innovative feature is that it has three different high-speed recording modes that are optimised for slow-motion video playback: 600fps, 300fps and 120fps. So for instance, at 600fps, motion occurring over 2.4 seconds is slowed down to 24 seconds (10 times as long). According to JVC this means that the user can capture moments that are not visible to the naked eye.

Also included are a KONICA MINOLTA HD LENS, an optical image stabiliser that uses two active prisms to correct camera shake, a seesaw-style zoom control, Face Detection and a one touch upload to YouTube.

Another first is the inclusion of JVC's K2 Technology, a technology that apparently restores fine sound details that are lost during compression

The JVC HD Everio GZ-HM400 is available immediately for $999.95.

JVC's current Everio camcorder range

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Ok, so the recession might not officially be over, but even the most miserable of British papers are now noting not just green shoots but proper beanstalks too. And with people feeling a tad more confident about their financial future that means it is time once again to splurge on consumer electronics goods.

But what are we going to be spending our money on this Christmas? Futuresource Consulting, which conducts regular research into our gadget buying habits, is predicting a bonanza for flat screen TV manufacturers and good news for Netbook companies too.

Here is the company's findings

Flat Panel TVs

The UK is apparently the biggest market for flats screen TVs in Europe and Futuresource thinks it will stay that way with demand for the sets fuelled by the World cup next year, the Olympics in 2012 and the digital switch off. LCD will continue to outpunch Plasma and take up to 90% of the market, with many of the new sets now ending up in bedrooms and studies.

Blu-ray Players

The Blu-ray market is apparently maturing in the UK with sales of standalone players topping 250k last year. Futuresource anticipates the UK market will grow to around 700k units during this calendar year, with most consumers continuing to opt for a standalone player rather than invest in a Blu-ray Home-Theatre-in-a-Box system or a Blu-ray Disc recorder.

Pocket Video Cameras

Futuresource thinks that after several stagnant years the camcorder market will be back with a bang with younger, IT-savvy 'YouTube generation' types snapping up models like the Flip. However Future source warns that thee cameras 'are exploiting a window of opportunity while mobile phones still need to catch up in terms of offering improved video capture, 3 and 3.5G connectivity direct to websites such as YouTube and Flickr, improved battery life and embedded/bundled storage capacities exceeding 1GB.'

Netbooks

Futuresource is expecting a huge growth in sales of netbooks this year with 2.5 million units sold in the UK, which represents a year-on-year growth of more than 70%. According to Futuresource a 'large swathe of the market being attracted by newer, cheaper netbooks offering increased functionality.'

Canon's other camcorder launch of the day, the LEGRIA HF21, is aimed squarely at the family market. Smaller and less feature-rich than the HF S11 it nevertheless shoots at shoots at 1920x1080 Full HD video which it then archives to a 64Gig flash memory drive - apparently enough for up to two hours of HD footage or 24 hours on the lowest quality mode.

Like the HF S11 it includes an updated Dynamic Optical Image Stabiliser (OIS) which apparently eliminates virtually all camera shake while filming and even lets people capture steady footage while walking or climbing.

Other apparently family-friendly features include a Video Snapshot mode that allows four-second clips to be captured with a single press of the record button, then easily arranged into a movie and set to music on the camera. The camera even has some music pre-loaded - though users can add their own.

Also on board is a face detection facility that can detect up to 35 faces in a frame, and controls all the technical settings automatically to ensure friends and family's faces always appear clearly in the video. It is apparently even smart enough to be able to select a single face to track in crowded scenes.

It also features a Canon's 15x optical zoom HD Video Lens, a 3.3 megapixel CMOS sensor and DIGIC DV III image processor.

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