You never know when you’ll need to make a copy of home movies on the fly. For this purpose, Canon has announced the DW-100, a portable DVD burner.

Sure, you probably don’t need to burn DVDs wherever you roam, but it’s main purpose is to cut out the middleman: Your computer. Just hook your camera or camcorder directly to the DW-100, and soon you will be burning up a storm.

In case you want to get old-school, the unit can be hooked to a PC or Mac. It also supports MPEG-2, AVCHD, MPEG-2 in HD and SD and HD AVCHD, says Gadgetell.

The DW-100 will be available in March 2008. There’s no word on what it will cost.

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