14 DAY TRIAL // Water is the bane of electronics but there are some products that defy this limitation, such as the newest video and photo camera that Kodak created and already sent out to stores.
Contrary to what people may think, saying that a device is waterproof can mean a number of things.
While 'true' waterproof items can survive when fully submerged underwater, for a time anyway, others are not quite so ambitious.
Mostly, companies try to make sure their products won't be easily destroyed by rain or high atmospheric humidity, but totally closing a design off from everything outside of it is tricky, especially when you are supposed to leave some way of connecting it to other things like PCs.
Kodak claims to have accomplished this tricky bit for the PlayFull video and photo camera.
Indeed, the company even put up a demo of a very short video flick on the product page to show the item in action in a swimming pool.
Basically, it can survive being submerged up to 10 feet (3.04 meters) underwater for up to 2 hours.
As a useful side-benefit, the tight construction, and the compact, lightweight design, also lets it survive drops of up to 5 feet (1.52 meters).
Prospective buyers can go here to place a pre-order, provided they have the $99.95 (73.41 Euro) needed to pay for it, and the willingness to do so.
The above is the white version. The black version, when bundled with a memory card (SDHC) of 4 GB capacity, sells for $119.95 (88.10 Euro).
Those who want to know what they are getting into will want to know of the 2-inch (5.08 mm) color LCD (liquid crystal display).
The item also boasts an SD card slot, 18 MB of built-in storage space, a pop-up USB arm (universal serial bus) and a Share button.
Finally, it should have no trouble recording 720p videos, thanks to the CMOS sensor (1 / 4–type).