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Future Tech: Super Video Recorders

Promise TV's personal video recorder is like TiVo's big brother. Instead of having you pick programs to record, the English startup's PVR just records them all on a whopping 3.2-terabyte hard disk array. Users can index, search, and even offload programs to external storage. Promise recently demonstrated its prototype box recording an entire week's worth of programming (over 2000 hours) from Britain's 12 TV channels. Promise has yet to announce commercial plans, but Sony has; its VAIO X PC video server can record seven programs at once using dual video server boards and three analog TV tuners. It should go on sale in Japan this November for around $5000.

HERE\NOW

1. Oxyride Panasonic's batteries with twice the lifetime of conventional AA and AAAs. Get 'em at your local store.

2. Computer-On-a-Stick Bootable USB flash drive with on-board Linux, browser, and Microsoft Office-compatible apps for $149. (fingergear.com)

3. Peerflix.com P-to-P with a twist: Share your DVDs via snail mail. (peerflix.com)

4. XMHD Use Google's Gmail as a "portable virtual hard drive"--for free. (XmailHardDrive.com)

5. Real U.S. postage with your digital pictures on them. It's all legal, too. (zazzle.com, cafepress.com, and stamps.com)

Contact PC World Contributing Editor Steve Fox at steve_fox@pcworld.com.

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