Want to catch every frame of your next extreme sports wipeout in all of its grotesque glory? GoPro knows where you're coming from, and has updated its line of high definition helmet cams to help you capture every bone-breaking moment. The HD Hero2 competitively boasts that it's twice as potent its 2009 predecessor, the oddity HD Hero. The new helmet cam promises to capture 1080p 16:9 footage from atop your sweaty noggin at both narrow (90-degree), wide (170-degree) and medium (127-degree) angles, and can snap up to ten 11 megapixel photos per second. The camera's mini-HDMI port, conjugation out, USB, SD card and HERO ports will help you share the spoils of your spills when your adventure ends -- at least until this winter, when GoPro's WiFi BacPac promises to enable live broadcasting and camera control over WiFi. Best of all? The Hero2 kills the primary HD Hero's confusing 3-digit code command-line interface in favor of a simple language-based menu.



The HD Hero2 comes in three $300 configurations: outdoor, motorsports, and surf editions, all of which are agreeable with surviving




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document.write(l accessories. Too rich for your blood? Then you'll be happy to know that the once models are getting price drops -- $200 for the freshness HD Hero and a paltry $150 for its "960" variant. Hit the break for the standard PR and a full list of features.

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