Sanyo Digital Voice Recorder

I picked up a Sanyo ICR-S170M digital voice recorder from Yodobashi Camera in Shinjuku and I am well impressed. My former voice recorder was a Sony model and while it looked beautiful the controls were counterintuitive and the use of the proprietary .MSV file format meant either running an emulator on my Mac (takes up space, slow) or extracting files to my work PC and then converting them to a Mac friendly .wav format. The ICR-S170M has no such problems - it records as mp3 and connects via a USB cable, so moving files onto my PowerBook is a simple drag-and-drop operation. I have been recording everything from formal speeches, workplace conversations, party talk and even my own weekly lessons - nothing like listening to yourself speak Japanese to know how good or bad you sound! Up to 8 hrs of recording time, depending on the recording quality selected. And the best part - only 12,000 yen!

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[the neat company deal]

This voice recorder was very advanced back in 2005 but nowadays technology has evolved at such an alarmingly fast rate that voice recorders can be tinier objects which are unnoticeable is you do not know about them. For example, a voice recorded may be incorporated into a pen which looks perfectly normal, or it may be a very small object which can be planted in a restricted place to eavesdrop and record conversations. Technology shows no sign of slowing down on its improvement.