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If you read Web Talk on a regular basis, you should know that I don’t like reviewing digital video cameras a lot. I have to confess to you that I am not into this kind of technology and, despite I like all kind of tech devices, digital cameras leave me pretty indifferent.  Anyway there are some exceptions, like Flip video Mino, or this new digital video camera I am going to speak about and whose name is Kodak Zi6. This device struck my fancy because of a lot of reasons. First of all, it is pretty small and light [dimension: 64 × 114 × 23.5 mm (2.5 × 4.5 × 0.9 in.)] weight: 107 g (3.8 oz) without batteries], secondly it supports HD video (720p at 60 frames per second), and thirdly its price  is really good. As a matter of fact it just costs $180. No kidding! Not bad for a HD device, right? Other features include:

• HD video quality (720p at 60 fps with 16:9 aspect ratio).
• 2,4 inch TFT LCD screen.
• Built-in USB to upload video to YouTube in a few easy steps.
• Expandable SD/SDHC card slot (up to 32 GB) to record hours of video.
• HD cables included to enjoy HD videos in your HD flat screen right away.

The digital video camera is expected to hit the market around mid-September. If you want to know more, visit the official Kodak website.

Asus has recently unveiled its new laptop G70 with multi-dual engine architecture. But what does it means? Simply, it means that it has everything twice. Two hard disks, two CPUs, two graphics engines, two fans etc. Basically it has been created for people who are into gaming…a little too much if you ask me, and want to have a powerful computer which is able to separate work from fun. Here are its specifications:

• Dual hard disk (combined storage capacity of 640GB).
• Two Intel Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Extreme processors.
• 17″ WUXGA (1920×1200) full HD display.
• Nvidia GeForce 8700M GT GPU X 2.
• DDRII 533/667MHz, up to 4GB.
• SATA 250/320/500(250×2)/640(320×2) GB HDD.
• 1GB GDDR3 RAM

No word about its release date or its price. If you want more infos, click here.

This little free software called ImgBurn manages to do what, till some time ago, was impossible to do namely burn everything, even Blu-Ray and Hd dvd . Best of all it comes for free! Other features include:

• Read/write a disc to an image file.
• Create an image from file located in your computer.
• Check if the disk is readable.
• Check the quality of the burns your drive is producing.
• Works on every Windowsoperative system (from Windows 95 up)
• Linux compatible.

If you want to download it or if you want to know more about it, click here.

So, after having dreamed of it for some months, Xbox 360 HD DVD Player becomes official at last! As a matter of fact you can see it and buy it on the Xbox website. The price is set at $129.99 and includes a free HD DVD of King Kong and an offer for five free HD DVDs by mail. To make the device work you don’t have to spend hour trying to understand what to do. Just plug it into your Xbox and start watching your preferred movies! For those people who are not into HD technology I would like to remind that to watch HD movies it is not suficient to buy the mentioned Xbox HD player. Actually you need to own a HD ready flat screen.