Behold the Olympus WS-321M. It is a digital audio recorder that sports dual internal microphones, runs on a single AAA battery, and doubles as an MP3 player (albeit a small one at 1GB).
Her name is Kino.
Okay, so I stole the name from my friend's laptop computer. See, the portable computer gets the name of a traveler. (Kino's Journey deserves its own blog post one of these days.) But this is not a laptop computer; this is the device that will hear the stories of the people in each land I come to. Kino is tiny at 1.5"x3.75", yet her fidelity and playback are remarkable and entirely adequate for my purposes. A double-USB wire is included so I can easily upload her stories to my laptop, though with 35 hours of storage space she can go a long time between transfers. She is quiet and discreet, yet it's easy to tell when she's recording, so no one will complain that they didn't know the mic was on. She is the perfect vehicle for a story on its way from your memory to my catalogue.
Douzo yoroshiku, Kino!
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