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RØDE Unveils Wireless Micro Camera Kit For Hybrid Shooters

The new kit brings camera connectivity to the Australian audio company’s compact wireless mic line.

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11 months ago

October 30, 2025

Joanna Melki

rode unveils wireless micro camera kit for hybrid shooters

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RØDE has launched the Wireless Micro Camera Kit, adding universal camera support to its popular pocket-sized microphone range.

The system builds on the Wireless Micro, which reshaped smartphone content recording, and brings the same audio quality to mirrorless and DSLR setups. The new on-camera receiver carries both 3.5 mm TRS and USB-C outputs, plus a 1.1-inch AMOLED screen for quick visual control. Intelligent GainAssist automatically levels audio, while plug-in power detection turns the receiver on and off with the camera.

Each kit includes two transmitters with in-built microphones, a USB-C smartphone receiver, and a compact charging case offering up to 21 hours of operation. The transmitters clip or mount magnetically, and integrated windshields cut noise during outdoor shoots. For mobile workflows, iOS users can connect via Bluetooth through the RØDE Capture app.

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“The Wireless Micro Camera Kit represents the next evolution of our mission to make premium audio accessible to all creators,” said RØDE CEO Damien Wilson. “By expanding the Wireless Micro’s capabilities to include universal camera connectivity, we’ve created a consolidated creative solution that’s not only more powerful, but incredibly flexible and simple to use. No matter how or where you create, the Camera Kit empowers you to tell your story with pristine sound, any way you decide to deliver it”.

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The Camera Kit marks RØDE’s second-generation camera receiver, a follow-up to the original platform that helped define the company’s wireless range. The first generation remains available for existing users through an exchange program.

Priced at US$149, the new kit ships globally. It reinforces RØDE’s position in the creator hardware market, now crowded with brands chasing hybrid video makers. In the MENA region, where digital production and social media video continue to expand under national digitalization drives, such flexible tools are fast becoming part of the basic creative toolkit.

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Trip.com Is Betting An AI Agent Will Book Your Next Vacation

Abu Dhabi, Jazeera Airways and a run of hotel deals give the company more inventory. Its Mastercard demo says the most about where booking technology is headed.

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2 days ago

September 16, 2026

Nour Nasir

trip.com is betting an ai agent will book your next vacation

Most of what Trip.com Group announced at Arabian Travel Market 2026 this week reads like the standard expansion playbook of an online travel agency: a new agreement with a tourism board, a run of hotel partnerships, an airline deal. However, one item was considerably more interesting: a demonstration built with Mastercard of an AI agent that doesn’t just suggest trips but also pays for them.

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The showcase put TripGenie, the company’s AI travel assistant, to work searching, selecting and completing purchases inside a single booking flow, with Mastercard’s Agent Suite for Merchants handling the payment step and Network International processing the transactions on the merchant side. It’s limited for now to attractions and ancillary services, but the partners plan a phased commercial rollout from early 2027.

“As traveller expectations change, technology and AI will play an increasingly important role in how people plan their journeys,” says Schubert Lou, CEO of Trip.com.

Meanwhile, in more conventional news, CEO Lou and Saleh Mohamed Al Geziry (Director General for Tourism at the Department of Culture and Tourism – Abu Dhabi), signed an agreement building on the two organizations’ existing partnership, with joint marketing and Abu Dhabi destination content to be pushed across Trip.com Group’s platforms.

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On accommodation, the group expanded its partnerships with JA Hotels & Resorts, Ishraq Hospitality and Aleph Hospitality and deepened its work with Silkhaus, which brings vacation homes into a portfolio that has so far leaned on hotels. Jazeera Airways signed a strategic partnership intended to widen the Kuwaiti carrier’s reach and encourage earlier bookings, tied to Kuwait’s own tourism ambitions.

The company moved into a larger Dubai office earlier this year and describes its long-term aim as a two-way ecosystem: sending Middle East travelers abroad while drawing international visitors in.