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Looking for getting quality videos straight from your TV to your PC or preserve old VHS recordings? It’s easy now with Audio/video Creator Capture High-quality Analog Video.

There are many video formats you can choose inluding AVI, MPEG, and WMV. The adapter is compatible with Windows XP, Vista, and 7. To ease the minds of 64 bit users, the computer I used it on is Windows 7 64bit.

Details
USB 2.0 Video Capture Adapter provides a link between a PC and a video device with RCA connector or S-Video connector, such VHS, VCR, DVD
USB 2.0 interface, plug and play. Support brightness, contrast, hue, and saturation control. Capture audio without the sound card.
Support All Video Formats: DVD+/-R/RW, DVD+/-VR, and DVD-Video. Applying to internet conference / net meeting. Support NTSC, PAL Video format.
Video input: One RCA composite, One S-Video. Audio input : Stereo audio (RCA)//Dimension (L)88mm x (W)28mm x (H)18mm. USB bus power.

Package Contents:
1 x USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio
1 x USB Cable

Average price is $10 only.

Your first reaction to reading this title might be to move on. After all, the so-called “Velomobile” was famously tried and infamously flopped during the 1980s in the form of the Sinclair C5.

And in case you don’t know anything about the Sinclair C5, then a velomobile (sometimes known as a bicycle car) is a vehicle powered by human effort, which is also enclosed for both protection and for aerodynamic purposes. They are generally single-passenger vehicles.

As the best-known velomobile, the C5 may have unfairly held back a style of transport that could have a lot to offer the world of motoring through its innovation.

For example, some velomobiles use hybrid technology – using a small on-board battery to provide assistance to the human pedal power much in the same way that hybrid cars mix electric and petrol power.

But the C5 was heavy, cumbersome, had only one gear, with no adjustment for the distance between the pedals and the seat – and was generally uncomfortable and difficult to use compared to today’s models.

In some ways, velomobiles are similar to recumbent bicycles, which also have an aerodynamic advantage; the reclined, legs-forward position of the rider’s body presents a smaller front profile. In fact, a recumbent holds the world speed record for a bicycle, whilst the “Absolute World Speed Record Cycling” went to Dutchman Fred Rompelberg in October 1995 when he cycled behind a motor dragster on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, achieving a speed of over 167mph!

The significance of velomobiles for motoring developments is perhaps most significant in the science of aero-dynamics. But maybe one day in the not too distant future, we’ll see very lightweight hybrid vehicles that use a mix of power sources including human power to cover thousands of miles?