Ambitious podcasters and jam band documentarians will no doubt be drooling over Sony's miniature recording studio, the PCM-D50. For $600, you get 24-bit, 96-kHz recording; 4GB of internal memory (plus Memory Stick slot); stereo electret condenser microphones, harmonic distortion of less than .01% and filtering/signal processing options up the wazoo.
If you read Kanji, you can seewhy even professional recording engineers think the device is a worthy on-location tool.
Sony PCM-D50: looks like a Taser, works like a podcaster's magic wand [DVICE]