Carting a camcorder with you has become a whole lot easier,
thanks to pocket-sized digital camcorders such as Pure Digital
Technologies' Flip Ultra and Flip Mino. These inexpensive
cameras are not only drop-dead easy to use -- push a button to
record and another to play -- but produce video acceptable for
posting to sites such as YouTube and Facebook. Recently, Kodak
entered this market with its diminutive pocket camcorder, the
Zi6.  In doing so, it's given Flip and consumers interested in
pocket video something to think about. Not only is it about the
same price as the Flip Mino (£129.99 including VAT to the Flip's
£119.99 at Amazon), but unlike the Flip camcorders, it shoots in
HD, offering 720p at either 60 or 30 frames per second (as usual
with these models, UK TV framerates aren't available, but most
TVs can playback the Zi6's video). It also takes still shots at
three-megapixels (interpolated), stores data on SD cards (up to
32GB), and runs off two rechargeable AA batteries.  Like the
Flip camcorders, t