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New High-Tech Devices

Aired June 26, 2002 - 11:27   ET

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LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: About 40,000 people are expected to be at the Tech X PC New York Expo going on in the Big Apple right now. This is the largest East Coast computer show of the year. And, it's also a chance for exhibitors to show off the latest high-tech gizmos and gadgets out there.

Joining us now from New York to talk about all that is CNN technology contributor M.K. Flynn, who was with us yesterday with a handful of gadgets.

What do you have this morning for us, M.K.?

M.K. FLYNN, CNN TECHNOLOGY CONTRIBUTOR: Well, today, Leon, I have -- good things come in small packages, and now so do cameras. We've got some very small cameras to show you, including some digital cameras that are about the size of a credit card.

The first one we've got here is from Casio. And it's called the Casio Exlim, this tiny digital camera. It weighs about four ounces, and it's got great resolution up to about 2 mega pixels, and the price is $299. That's just for the camera. If you wanted to add a unit that also has a MP3 player and a voice recorder, that would be $399. And this has about nearly two hours of pictures that come on the camera, plus additional cards. That's the first one from Casio.

And then the second one we have, also a small one, even lighter, is from Logitech. And that's called the Logitech pocket digital camera. Now it's got lower resolution. But on the other hand, it's got a lower price. It's only $130, and it's half an inch thick and less than an ounce. And I'm comparing that one to possibly even something like a disposable camera. I mean, it's so light and so easy to take with you. And, you know, it doesn't have fabulous picture quality.

But for applications like, let's say you're a real estate agent and you want to take a bunch of quick photographs of different homes that you're trying to sell and put them up on a web site, this would be a great easy-to-carry with you camera. That's on digital cameras.

We've also got a camcorder to show you, and this is from Sony. It's their smallest, lightest camcorder available. It weighs about a pound. And one of the great features is that it's got touch screen controls. So you literally take the screen and can press little buttons on the little icons on the screen to get different things to happen. For example, it's got what this -- spot control focus so that -- you know sometimes you're trying to take a picture and you want to get something in focus that's not necessarily in the center of the picture. Maybe it's off to the side. Well, you can just touch the screen, and it will turn into that spot being the focal point. That's a nice feature there.

HARRIS: Let me see your finger up next to that screen, because that thing looks awfully small. I'm thinking it looks like you'd have to have your kid, your son or your daughter, actually use their fingers to point at this thing.

FLYNN: It's true, and I'm not such a good comparison because I have tiny fingers. You're right.

HARRIS: So there you go.

FLYNN: I found it easy to use, but maybe you would find it more difficult.

HARRIS: All right.

FLYNN: I got one more gadget to show you if you've got time. This is the latest version of the popular blackberry pager. And I've got it right here. Right now you can buy a version of the blackberry that has a cellphone with it, but you have to use a headset for it.

Now in the fall, this product is coming out and you'll just be able to use the built-in microphone and speaker, so you'll be able to talk like this. And that's the blackberry pager. It's so new, it doesn't have a name, it doesn't have a price yet.

HARRIS: Good grief. What will they think of next.

FLYNN: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) right?

HARRIS: I guess so.

FLYNN: Talking about my shoe, my pager.

HARRIS: There you go. All right, look out James Bond, here we come. All right, M.K. Flynn, thanks, appreciate it. See you later.

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