What’s this, another way to capture for posterity the extremeness of our helmet-requiring pastimes? Yes indeed, a new player has entered the increasingly crowded POV/action/helmet camera market, the Drift Innovations HD170, offering 1080p recording in a durable case that stands poised to take on GoPro’s HD Hero and VHoldr’s ContourHD 1080p .

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Drift Innovations HD170 helmet cam review

This is a wild one, and we’re still parsing through the announcement, but on the surface it looks like the Library of Congress has added new anti-circumvention exceptions to the DMCA that, among other things, allow people to tweak their handsets for the purpose of installing legally obtained software — known as jailbreaking in iOS land, and rooting in the Android / webOS world. Check out the full statement from the Librarian of Congress, which is mostly an update of existing exceptions on record, after the break, but here’s the primary excerpt: Computer programs that enable wireless telephone handsets to execute software applications, where circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of enabling interoperability of such applications, when they have been lawfully obtained, with computer programs on the telephone handset.

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Library of Congress adds DMCA exception for jailbreaking or rooting your phone

Amimon — remember those guys? The company responsible for transmitting 1080p video over a 5GHz band went ( nearly ) radio silent after making a few announcements at CES this year, but now it’s hitting back with a new prototype system designed to support the bandwagon that James Cameron and company are driving forward. The new setup is capable of wirelessly transmitting 3D HD video using WHDI (5GHz), with the demo showing that 1080p 3D video could be beamed with a frame rate of 24fps without any major hiccups

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Amimon demos prototype wireless 3D HD transmission system

Want a really good excuse to spend $1,700 on a DSLR? Check out the 24fps “Dublin’s People” short after the break, shot with one of those fancy new 7D DSLRs from this little company named “Canon” that you may have heard of. The verdict?

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Canon EOS 7D 24p footage tries to make indie filmmakers / chain smokers out of us all

Well, what do we have here? Looks like someone’s got their hands on Samsung’s low-cost, Android-packin’ I5700 Galaxy Lite

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Video: Samsung I5700 Galaxy Lite running Android, keepin’ it classy