Just about everyone has already come out with a rugged compact digicam that you can take around 10 feet underwater, but this is different. Sanyo’s Xacti VPC-CA102 is a dedicated consumer HD camcorder you can dive in with. It still comes in the Xacti line’s easy one-hand for factor too, so it shouldn’t be that hard to take anywhere.
Here’s a pretty good idea that just about anyone can use: a compact battery pack that can charge mobile devices. Released by Sanyo in Japan, the Eneloop Stick Booster charges mobile devices such as cellphones, portable gaming devices and audio players through a miniUSB port, and is powered by a pair of Sanyo’s Eneloop batteries.
Sanyo in Japan has just announced a new digital video recorder (DVR) that uses slot-in hard drives up front for plug and play storage. Called the Repoch, the DVR is a compact set-top kit that can record videos, save them on iVR (Information Versatile Disk)-compatible disks, and play them on digital or analog TVs.
