Thanks to the Pantone Capsure Design pros can capture colors for use in their projects wherever they may be. The Capsure from Pantone is a handheld color scanner that will allow you to capture colors from just about any surface including small items, patterns, and multi-colored textures. Even walls and carpets.

You might be out during the day and see the perfect color for a project on an object. If so just use the Capsure to capture that color for use in the project back in the office. Pretty handy.

Elgato has introduced its latest Mac peripheral, the Video Capture which will allow you to record analog video from VCRs or other sources to a digital format. The USB stick will be able to handle RCA, S-video and SCART footage, though SCART will require an adapter.

Using Elgato’s proprietary software, you can convert it to H.264 or MPEG-4 for export to iTunes or editing through iMovie and such. You can choose from 4:3 or 16:9 widescreen. It’s smart enough that it knows the difference between international video standards like NTSC and PAL.