If you have been checking around the market for a great HD camera, check out Sony’s bloggie. The handheld camcorder, as mentioned above, takes high definition video, compresses the file sizes for easy upload to your Mac or PC, uploads in MP4 format so you can put your videos on you iPod and easily upload to sites such as YouTube, and one of the coolest features about this camera is it’s nifty 270 degree swivel lens that allows you to film people in front of you or turn it so you can film yourself without actually moving the camera.

I have a couple more features to quickly mention… On top of taking video, if you happen to forget your camera and want to take a photo of something, the bloggie has still photo capabilities. Unfortunately, the still photos are only 5 mega pixels, but regardless, it is another really handy feature to have. The last feature I’m going to mention deals with the upload stuff I mentioned before, the bloggie has a built in USB key so you can plug in and start uploading right away without having to find your camera cables and such. This camera has SD card capabilities to store more videos and photos, but comes with a 4GB internal memory as well. For an HD camera, the starting price is really affordable at $169 and it comes in four different colours.