A Bike's-Eye View: Sports Camera Captures Your Adventures in HD [VIDEO]

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Price: $599

What It’s Good For: Getting great wide-angle HD video from the thick of your activities -- anything you'd wear a helmet for.

Who It’s Good For: Bikers, snowboarders, skiers, skateboarders, race car drivers.

Limitations: Very expensive; lots of fiddly mounting parts; can be hard to keep cable mic in place.

Bottom Line: To relive moments of high adrenaline in full HD quality, there's little better.

A Closer Look at the VIO POV.HD Video Camera

To round out our Gadget of the Day Series, here's a wonderfully indulgent piece of high technology -- the POV.HD. As the name suggests, this video camera captures everything from your point of view in HD -- using a wide-angle, fisheye lens that you can screw on to a helmet or vehicle.

The tiny lens attaches to a cable with a microphone on it, and the cable attaches to a brick-like controller and 3-hour battery with an LCD display. You also get a small remote to start and stop recording. There are a handful of different mounts, for helmets and handlebars. How difficult are they to set up? That depends on your proficiency with a Philips screwdriver (not included). In our case, it took about 20 minutes to attach the camera to the handlebars.

As you can see from my video test run above, the fisheye lens has a fantastic adrenaline-rush effect -- making even a humdrum commute through the streets of San Francisco seem full of death-defying excitement. If you've ever wanted to film Bullitt on a bike, here's your chance.

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