Viddling Around™

One of my favorite camcorders and objects of Gadget Lust has been the Samsung line of compact Sports Camcorders. Since I used to be a avid skydiver, and jumpmaster - I always saw the benefit of this form factor, and the remote lens.

Now even better, Samsung has gone RF wireless on this device, cutting the cord to the remote lense. RF and not Bluetooth, since the latter sucks up too much battery life to be effective. And, with the RF implementation, Samsung can keep the lens-to-body bandwidth high enough for most decent Web video. You won’t be doing any HD with this baby, but that’s not why you’d buy it anyway.

It’ll set you back $679, and by default records to the 1GB internal storage. If you’re like most people though, you want to make use of the SD card slot to record to 1 or 2GB cards. The SC-X210WL will be in stores this September. Look for me there — I’ll be the guy in line ahead of you.