Tuesday focus: Gadgets
You’ll be ready to capture the action at a moment’s notice with the Kodak Zx1 Pocket Video Camera.
Equipped with a 2-inch color liquid crystal display screen, the weather-resistant camera can record your friends skiing on a bright winter day or sloshing through puddles on an overcast day.
The camera can be set to record 720p video at 60 frames per second or VGA video at 30 frames per second.
Available in black, blue, red, pink and yellow, it comes with a low-distortion microphone, rechargeable AA batteries, a battery recharger and a memory card slot.
Thanks to its built-in software, you can quickly upload video clips to online sites, such as YouTube.
It will go on sale in April for $150.
Go to www.kodak.com.
Portable player keeps it simple: Don’t have time or patience to load your own music onto an MP3 player?
The Sansa slotRadio lets you take the easy way out.
The portable player comes with a preloaded microSD card containing 1,000 songs from Billboard charts.
This player’s special “slotRadio” card is divided into a variety of genres, such as hip-hop, rock and alternative, as well as themes, such as “Chillout” and “Workout.”
The player also sports a 1.5-inch display screen, an FM radio, a rechargeable battery and a built-in belt clip.
It costs $100.
Additional themed music cards will cost $40 each ( www.slotradio.org).
Radio connects to the Internet: You can access online music and weather reports via the Acoustic Research Infinite Radio, a wireless radio that doubles as a traditional clock radio with an alarm clock, built-in stereo speakers, an adjustable LCD screen and 24 preset options.
Compact enough to rest on a nightstand, the ARIR200 model provides access to AM and FM radio stations, WeatherBug forecasts, Internet radio stations, Slacker Personal Radio and music stored on a USB device.
Don’t have time to catch a favorite show?
The radio can record up to 10 hours of live radio for playback at a more convenient time.
It costs about $130.
Go to www.acoustic- research.com.
Gannett