This week's Gadget Watch checks out the budget GHV-DV24SD camcorder, the beginner-friendly Pentax K-m DSLR, a handful of portable DVD players, and more.

Exercising out in the park yesterday, in the middle of a set of stretches, I realized that I had not addressed the issue of natural foods versus commercial supplements that are available in Japan and what they are good for. In my opinion, Japan is a treasure trove of healthy food and there is so much of it that people should be making pilgrimages here in a form of health tourism, much the same as expats from Tokyo go to Thailand to do high colonics (a body detoxification program). The following is just a smattering of my favorite Japanese healthy foods – in fact there is so much information on the subject that you could fill a book with the full spectrum available.

This week's Gadget Watch is all over the place: a new type of DSLR, cheap big-screen monitors, an alternative audio player, TV for the bath, bigger small hard drives, and the Kitty Roomba.

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