1. A Day In The Life
What's the best gear for cheap, fun, stylish mobile computing? We've picked it out for you here. Get blogging, snapping and recording in the wild.
Life is unpredictable. One day you’re sitting in a coffee shop, minding your own business, checking your Facebook page on your netbook. Next thing you know, you’re looking out the window watching a security guard chase a shoplifter who is running out of a jewelry store. You grab your handycam to record this bit of action, but after a few seconds things get serious and alleged thief gets tasered. Ouch!
You know this clip will be controversial—and you’re not really sure who is at fault, so you plug in your video camera and upload the video to Youtube (with a link to your personal site) so the public can find out about this incident. The video goes viral. Your blog reaps lots of traffic, too.
Not every day is that dramatic, but it pays to be alert and equipped with the right tools to share your experiences, especially if you’re a blogger with a devoted fan base. So, when it comes to mobile social computing, we like the Boy Scout’s motto: Be prepared. That’s why we’ve gathered up some of the best affordable and lightweight products for effective computing on the go.
But the products we picked—a netbook, a video camera, a hard drive, and a bag to carry it all—aren’t just efficient and value-oriented. They’re also nice to look at. We think that people who spend a lot of time computing in public want to look good while they’re doing it, so for our mobile social networking outfit, we accessorized. Every product featured here comes in several colors and sports attractive design elements. Now, get out there and self-publish on the Internet in style!
If my lifestyle was as such, the most important thing i would want to know is how fast i could get recording. Because the worst thing is where you see something happen and you cant pull out your camera in time or you cant get it up running and recording video fast enough. Next time toms does a review of this nature i want the "in the bag to recording video in your hands" time. That's what a blogger or anyone who wants to share an experience that happened to them wants to know. There needs to be a button on every camera, camera phone, and video cam for instant record or pictures. Just pull out your recording device, hit this button (whether the device is on or not), and you got a picture/vid of whatever you just saw instantly. No going through menus and what not. The bag in a review like this should almost have a video camera holster so that the camera can be protected when on the go but can be quickly drawn out to "shoot". No body thinks of these things, but when a split second accident occurs your gonna have no time to capture it when your Kodak camera takes 10 sec to boot up. Still a great review btw
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I just tested this feature on the Vado HD. 3.3 seconds.
2.8 of those seconds is to press the button to power it on and have the ready screen appear. Half a second to go from ready to actual recording.
I'd say that's pretty darn quick but I will compare it to the Flip Mino HD tomorrow! If I recall correctly, this is faster than the Flip.
Thank you!!! That's some impressive feedback!! Much
That's a lot of extra stuff to carry around. I don't think I want to do that.