But hook ATI's Xclaim to a Mac and the device will open a crystal-clear TV window on your desktop. One in a growing market of computer television tuners, Xclaim has especially sophisticated features. It monitors the closed captioning stream for keywords, then either alerts you or captures a text transcript of the show when the words appear. Seiko's Quicktionary offers inconspicuous bilingual crib notes. This pen-sized unit is a combined scanner and translator with a vocabulary of more than 480,000 words.
Units are available for Spanish, Hebrew, Korean, and many other languages.
The Millennium, the latest and greatest of the rugged 35-mm Panaflex line, is even more refined and engineered than its predecessors. To appease change-wary cinematographers, however, Sawhney left redundant analog controls while installing digital ones. He also kept a classic detail - a bracket for the cinematographer's glasses. Inc. All rights reserved.