Millions of these virus transistors could eventually end up in MP3 players or digital cameras, speeding up image capture or file transfer.

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In these days of easy fakes, pictures from police cameras or interview recordings could have watermarks put in that are fragile rather than robust.

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With the application of these smart cameras, ranging from spotting crimes on the high street or traffic violations to keeping children safe at school, the issue or who decides what is deemed suspicious comes into focus.

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Springing for one of these or the strictly-offline GZ-E325 (8GB) and GZ-E345 (16GB) cameras will still net you a just-the-highlights playback mode that looks for smiles and tagged scenes.

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Additional tweaks include a manual volume adjustment (as opposed to the automatic gain the cameras usually employ), a brightness or RGB histogram display (this function, like some of these other features, has been available for a while as a hack), shutter and aperture priority modes have been added for movie shooting, and the audio sampling ramp has been bumped from 44.1KHz to 48KHz.

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With their internal antennae, color displays, Bluetooth connectivity and digital cameras, these handsets "would be considered upper-mid-tier as recently as a year or two ago, " Greengart notes.

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