If you know anything about the history of spaceflight, you’re probably already familiar with the historic journey of USSR cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, who flew around the Earth in 1961, making him the first person to ever travel beyond our planet’s atmosphere. While audio recordings of Gagarin’s observations exist, there are no video recordings except for those recently shot at the ISS following a similar plot of his trip, directed by Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, who currently lives on the space station. This video has now been matched up with Gagarin’s audio, and made into a film to commemorate the 50th anniversary of his flight, which is on April 12th. The movie will be made available on that date for free download on YouTube.

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For those who need a digital camera but are not willing to pay a lot of money for it, they can choose to get a refurbished digital camera, which can be found at a lower price than a new one. For example, you can buy a Kodak EasyShare C913 9.2MP Compact Digital Camera for only $65. This refurbished digital camera has only 3.0 x 2.0 x 2.0 inches in dimension and 8.3 ounces in weight, so it feels comfortable in your hand. Having a maximum resolution of 9.5 Megapixels, this camera can take photos with a maximum resolution of 3472 x 2604. Because it has many features like optical zoom, digital zoom, electronic image stabilization, auto-focus and red-eye reduction, you will be capable of taking great pictures with great contrast levels and superb colors. Also, you can record clips with a maximum frame rate of 29 fps. The 2.4 inch LCD display located on the back side, is large enough for you to view your photos or video recordings. The internal memory is quite low, only 16 MB of free space, but you can extend that with a Secure Digital High Capacity (SDHC) card.

Another refurbished digital camera which you can find on the internet is the Olympus FE-25 10MP. This digital camera is designed for adults, teens or kids who want a practical camera with a great aspect. With 2.5 x 3.7 x 0.9 inches in dimension and 4.10 ounces in weight this is the best selling Olympus digital camera model. The Olympus FE-25 10MP has a maximum resolution of 10 Megapixels and can take photos with a maximum resolution of 3648 x 2736 pixels. With features like 4x digital zoom, electronic image stabilization, auto-focus, red-eye reduction (similar with other digital camera models) and with a special “6 Elements in 5 Groups” lens construction you will be able to take clear and high quality photos. The internal memory has 19 MB but it can be extended with an xD-Picture card. At a price of $59 this can be a great accessory for you.

The Samsung SL102 is another refurbished digital camera with a reasonable price. For only $90 you will get a slim, light and stylish digital camera with great performance. The Samsung SL102 is a 10.2 Megapixels digital camera which can take photos or record clips with great colors quality. With some powerful features like Samsung Digital Image Stabilization, 3x digital zoom, a 2.5 inch LCD display, Light Sensitivity and Exposure Control this digital camera is able to take the best pictures by the simple press of a button.



For only $94 you can buy the Kodak Easyshare C190 refurbished digital camera, which is designed for that people who want more than a classic digital camera. This model has 8.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 inch in dimension and it is available only in blue. But this digital camera is not only very attractive. It has many powerful features which will help you take perfect photos every time. The Kodak Easyshare C190 is a 12 Megapixels digital camera with 5x optical zoom and 5x digital zoom. The 2.7 inch LCD display with a native resolution of 960 x 240 pixels is large enough for you to see your clips or photos without problems.



The high-end features like Smart Capture, Face detection, Blur Reduction, High ISO, Easyshare software, PictBridge, Electronic Image Stabilization and Auto-Focus make this digital camera one of the best. The internal memory of 32 MB can be extended with a SDHC memory card, so you will have enough space for your photos and clips. So, if you want to have a good digital camera without paying a lot of money for it, you can choose one of these refurbished models because they come is a great variety of prices and features.

Toshiba Japan has announced a slew of new and updated notebooks today, and one of them [JP] is a monster of a notebook (more will be posted later). The Qosmio G60/97J is basically a high-end computer, digital TV and Blu-ray player rolled into one.

The notebook is powered by a Core 2 Duo P8700 processor (2.53GHz) and has 4GB of RAM, a 500GB HDD, GeForce GT230M, Ethernet, IEEE 802.11n Wi-Fi, Ethernet, an HDMI port, and Windows 7 on board.

It also features  a 18.4-inch full HD LCD screen, not one but two TV tuners (so that you can record a TV program while watching another), a Blu-ray drive, harman/kardon speakers and Toshiba’s self-developed SpursEngine processor (which is supposed to boost the quality of video recordings). Toshiba also throws in a remote control.

The Qosmio G60/97J weighs 5kg and is sized at 442.6×294.2×41.5mm. It will hit Japanese stores at the end of next month for $3,200. A trimmed down version, the GX/G8K, with weaker resolution (1,680×945), a 400GB HDD and no TV tuners or SpursEngine processor, will be available for $800 less.

No word yet from Toshiba concerning a possible worldwide release.

There are many thingsi in our life that we sish to keep a memory to revisit later. Yes, we will always have them in our memories, but those too can fade. So what can we do so that even 20 years from the day of that special event, we can still look back into what happened that day, and relive those special memories? The answer to this would be to record every minute of that day on a video camera.

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The days have now gone where we did totally depend on the video store for our video recordings, processing, and storing. Nowadays the way recording of all those special moments is done through digital videos. What exactly are the digital videos? These are videos that are stored in the digital system of bytes, rather than in the older way of analog storage.

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Digital videos can be recoded using a number of equipment these days. Digital video cameras are the sophisticated equipments for digital recording while there are other devices that can do the same thing. Usually the digital video cameras are priced from $100 to $2000, something that shows just how much variety there is to choose from if you are looking for a digital video camera. There are also digital cameras that have the option of shooting digital videos on them, an option that has become very popular today. Almost all the best digital cameras today come with a menu option of recording digital videos, and these have helped in making sure that everyone has the ability to keep some memories of a special day or event intact. Digital cameras also have the added advantage of being small, light and easy to carry around, and therefore these have become a popular alternative for those who want to take digital videos. Another option many have to take digital videos is to record digital videos on their mobile phones. Almost all the present models of mobile phones have video recording functionality, and some mobile phones come with high built-in memory for storing videos.

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Digital videos are much better than the traditional videos when it comes to security, quality, and  durability. As digital videos can be loaded directly onto a computer, and edited and manipulated on the same computer before being stored in a CD or DVD, there is always proper quality of the video maintained. Because of this digital videos are the preferred choice for all.

Sometime, at some events, we wish to keep the moment recorded with us forever. This can be a moment you shared with the special person you loved or a picnic with your kids, or even a suprise party for one of the friends or a family member. Else, it can be something really special to you such as your wedding day, the day you proposed to your girlfriend or boy friend, or the 25th wedding anniversary of your parents.  In any of these cases, I’m sure we though of visiting the memory back one day. While videos is the best answer for storing the memory for years, digital video recordings are the best way of keeping everything as it is for decades to come from the event.

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Digital video recording is the pretty much what it says – recording an event using the digital technology. The times that required you to buy an expensive video camera, check whether the right video cassette has been inserted, looking through the small glass for capturing the video is long gone. The technology has changed a lot from the conventional video recording and now we enjoy the luxury of digital video recording. Digital technology employs the digital data storing, which is done by storing the information in two signal levels. When it comes to digital video recording, not only the digital video cameras are capable of capturing digital video footage. It is very common now to find phones or digital cameras with the options available, making it easier for anyone to capture the valuable  moments of their lives. It is not uncommon to find a group of teenagers at a shopping mall using digital video recording to record some stunt they have played on a member of their group, or to show someone else what they bought that day.

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Digital vido recording is as easy as clicking a button of you mobile phone. For example tourists can carry a digital camera, and use it to as a digital video recorder as well. There are some inexpensive video cameras with less internal memory support where the user can increase the memory by inserting an external memory card. This way, it reduces the complexity of using many devices for storing the video footage. All in all, digital video recording can be one of the best things that happened in video technology.

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Our world is filled with amazing devices that render life simpler for us to live. Many gadgets provide a more convenient method of completing office tasks, some can supply us with comfort, some can help us communicate better, while other devices provide high quality entertainment anywhere we journey to. In the past, the Walkman portable cassette player was thought to be one of the greatest portable music players on earth. Using it, you would be in a position to partake of your favorite songs anywhere you go. This was the ‘in’ thing previously and thanks to this, it’s evolved in to something better.

Portable CD Walkmans were also very famous around the mid 90′s and folks simply couldn’t have their fill of them as with the high end digital sound they promoted, almost everyone wished to get one, and over time almost everybody did get one. Though, the issue with portable CD players was that they’d skip especially when you subjected them to vibrations. For instance, when you went jogging, you would get skips in the songs when you produced bumps and vibrations as you ran. Even shock reducers and shock absorbers integrated with your portable CD players weren’t enough.

That opened the path to developing the iPod and during its debut, the Apple iPod turned out extremely popular with a lot of individuals. With the option to keep and listen to gigabytes worth of mp3 format music, people were now permitted to hear their favorite music and not need to change a CD. Because the music is stored in an integrated hard disc, the iPod doesn’t experience any skips in audio even while it is exposed to bumping or shakes and that made the iPod the most popular media player on earth.

Now, the latest Apple iPod Touch is currently taking the earth by storm and a great many folks wish to own one, but why else is the iPod Touch so popular? Well, for starters, there is an itouch 32GB that will allow you to store mp3 audio tracks, video recordings, and it will even let you store pictures as well as games.

The iPod Touch also has a built in WiFi mobile platform which means that with the gadget, you’ll be allowed to access the Internet wherever you go if you’re within a WiFi area. Clearly, the iPod Touch is far more than just a multimedia player, it is also a personal computer where you will be allowed to access the web, browse your favorite website and even check your emails.

The multi touch screen technology offers an extra oomph to the device and it’s simply fashionable so anyone that would like to be contemporary must get one. The coolest part of an iPod Touch is that it’s so small that it could sit inside a pocket and, you don’t need to fear with storing it inside a pocket with any keys either since an iPod Touch is made to be sturdy as well as scratch resistant.

So, the next time you plan on buying a multimedia player, you should go for iPod Touch because with this device, you can be sure that you will never get bored again wherever you travel to.