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Break out those Seinfeld tapes piled in your closet. Hewlett-Packard recently unveiled the DVD Movie Writer dc3000, the first device that combines a DVD recorder and an analog-to-digital converter in one box--meaning you can transfer your VHS tapes to DVDs. The gadget includes software for your PC and connects to a VCR or a camcorder using standard video cables. In a few clicks, more than two hours of footage can be transferred onto a single disc. The software breaks the DVD into chapters, allowing you to skip to your favorite scenes, and comes with an editing...
While the U.S. and Europe are concentrating on using RFID in logistics, Jun Murai, head of Japan's Auto-ID center at Keio University, says gadget-crazy Asians in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong are more likely to want household items with RFID chips that can communicate with a home network. The Chinese are more pragmatic. Shanghai and 44 other cities already use an RFID payment system for public transportation. In Singapore's library system, all 9 million books, videos and DVDs are embedded with antitheft chips, allowing self-checkout. "With bar codes, you need to precisely align...
DIED. WALTER ZAPP, 97, inventor of the Minox mini-camera, a device tiny enough to be hidden in a closed hand; in Binningen, Switzerland. Though the camera he created in 1936 became a popular gadget in James Bond movies and other spy films, Zapp's invention was inspired not by anything so intriguing as espionage but by having once worked as an art photographer's apprentice, which required him to lug around heavy wooden cameras...
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