DXG USA, one of the fastest growing digital camera manufacturers, announced today the new DXG-565V 5 Megapixel combo digital camcorder/camera/MP3 player/voice recorder/webcam — all in one, with a large 2.4″ TFT LCD screen and 32MB of built-in storage. The DXG-565V has a new sleek camcorder-shaped design and comes in 5 new trendy colors: Metallic Pink, Ruby Red, Deep-Sea Blue, Gun Metal, and Midnight Black to fit everyone’s style. In addition to its fashionable good looks, the DXG-565V also records DVD-quality MPEG-4 video at 720 x 480 D1 resolution with sound and captures still images of up to 12 Megapixels.

Based on the colorful, extremely popular DXG-506V (featured as last summer’s “Must Have” camera in In Style Magazine, as well as in Life & Style Weekly, Girl’s Life, and PopStar!, among others), the new DXG-565V’s sleeker design, larger LCD screen, lower-price, and new eye-popping colors are aimed at the tastes of teens, college students, young adults and women who like capturing and sharing life’s spontaneous moments with a bring-everywhere compact designer camera that everyone will envy.

Priced at only $99, the DXG-565V has minimal buttons for increased ease-of-use, while at the same time boasting features normally found in more expensive 5 Megapixel camcorders/cameras, such as a built-in flash in 3 modes, Macro Mode, White Balance, and EV Compensation features.

The DXG-565V is perfect to take on the road for recording high-quality video with sound or for snapping photos to send to friends or to post on your website or favorite social sites, such as MySpace®, Facebook®, and YouTube™. You can also entertain your friends at parties by connecting the DXG-565V to your TV to view your own holiday slideshows on a large screen.

When connected to a computer via USB cable, the DXG-565V can also be used in two ways: as a PC webcam for video chat or video conferencing with your friends, family, and co-workers – or, as a Portable Storage Device, perfect for storing documents and other data files with the 32MB of internal memory and built-in SD Card slot for additional storage space. MP3 music and audio files can also be transferred from your computer to the DXG-565V, so you can bring your music with you wherever you go. In addition, the camcorder can also be used as a digital voice recorder, perfect for college students and business people, to record lectures, meetings, personal reminders, and to-do lists.

DXG-565V Features:

5.1 Megapixel digital camera and camcorder in one.

2.4″ TFT clear LCD screen for easy viewing.

4X digital zoom.

Records MPEG-4 video with sound, up to 720 x 480 at 30fps.

Captures still images in JPEG format, up to 12MP image resolution.

Digital Voice Recorder.

Digital Music Player.

PC Camera.

Available in 5 cool colors.

Camera Features:

Built-in flash in 3 modes

White Balance

EV Compensation

Macro Mode

The DXG-565V is available in 5 great colors, Metallic Pink, Ruby Red, Deep-Sea Blue, Gun Metal, and Midnight Black. It comes with a camera case, wrist strap, earphones, editing software, USB and AV cables, manual, and AAA batteries. The DXG-565V has a suggested retail price of $99 and is available Q1 2008 through leading retailers.

Website: Dxgtech

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“Introducing the Elonex ‘ONE’ laptop, the UK’s first sub £100 laptop. Aimed at the Education Sector, the ONE is an ultra-portable laptop that gives wireless access to internet, eMail, word processing and spreadsheets. These functions are the fundamental building blocks which form the foundation of a child’s computing skills which can then be developed throughout their education. The ONE is designed to engage and motivate children and will open up a wide range of new and innovative teaching methods.”

Sam Goult, Marketing Manager at Elonex, comments “This pioneering technology has been developed to help nurture our children’s education, to integrate them into the modern digital world that we all now belong to. The ONE removes the cost barrier that has prevented the one-laptop-per-person, large-scale uptake of computers in the education system that has for so long been just a pipe-dream. Investment in digital technology is paramount to help the next generation achieve their full potential.”

The ONE will help to achieve a balance and equality in the education of the classes. Figures published by The Conservatives in Dec 2007 show that the gap in the educational performance between pupils in the 10 per cent richest and poorest areas of the UK was 20 percentage points, and widening. The obstacle inhibiting low-income households from access to modern computing has now been eliminated, which will help to restore this unfair disadvantage.

Elonex has made the ONE a possibility through extensive R&D and the specific modification of electronics technology to achieve the sub £100 laptop. The price is also achieved with a request to the government to make the product VAT exempt & support from corporate sponsors whom are currently going through the selection process.

Sam Goult continues “The ONE has been designed to be an Education based resource, but the variety of uses are almost limitless. We also expect the sub £100 laptop to be a huge success with adult learners, business users, people who are constantly mobile, elderly people and first time internet users. We anticipate the ONE will prove to be a success throughout the UK and we expect to bring low cost computing to Europe and beyond.” The ONE wll be launched at The Education Show at the NEC. The exhibition, which showcases emerging educational resources and practices, is held at the NEC Birmingham from 28th Feb to 1st Mar. Elonex will launch the ONE laptop in Hall 11 at Stand SW-T51. For more information please visit www.elonex.com or www.education-show.com