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Ricoh has announced the new rugged-looking, water and dust resistant camera - the G600. Passing the US Department of Defense standards as a shock resistant product that can withstand a 1.5-meter (about 5-foot) fall, the G600 packs of the same features as other Ricoh camera products, except for sporting an overall smaller and lighter camera body.

Users who live exhilarating lifestyles would benefit from the G600’s water, dust and impact resistant features as they can bring the G600 anywhere they want to without worrying about damaging the camera’s inner sensitive parts. The G600 features a 10-megapixel lens, a large 2.7-inch LCD, a 5x optical zoom with wide-angle focal point which is equivalent to 28-140mm for a 35 mm camera, digital image stabilizer, high ISO from 64-3200 and built-in flash. In addition to those features, the G600 also has USB support, a large-capacity and long lasting battery that gives 360 shots (as per CIPA standard) before it runs out of juice and support for SD/SDHC memory cards of up to 8GB for storage. Speaking of batteries, the G600 can also take AAA-batteries in case its lithium-ion runs out. Pricing for the G600 is not yet available at this time.

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SentrySafe’s new hard drive is all but your normal USB hard drive which you can directly connect into a PC or laptop’s USB port to get some data storing goodness. It enables users to back up critical data in case of systems crash, computer failure and here’s the clincher, fire and water related disasters.

SentrySafe’s new hard drive is the world’s first and currently only fire resistant and water proof hard drive. It is actually a Maxtor OneTouch 4 mini hard drive encased in SentrySafe enclosure. That means the data in the hard drive is safe even it finds its way into burning house or submerged in water. But the SentrySafe hard drives protection from fire and water has some limitations though - fire protection last only for 30 minutes of up to 1,500 degrees heat and water survival last only for 24 hours. Anything beyond that, I guess you can kiss your data goodbye.

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