Yes, this is even in the right area for the site. Via this WorldChanging.com post, your pal Wonko got curious. So he started looking around.

The CoDECK is so 70s hip in features, you'd wonder why Apple didn't think of it first. Well, OK, maybe not. And if you want to know about what the CODECK is, you should read this.

But there's more to this than the astounding feat of sticking GNU/Linux within the shell of a 1979 Sears Betavision videocassette recorder. You see, it's a sleeper.

As Emily Gertz of WorldChanging explains:

...Video cameras have become important tools in struggles for justice and expression worldwide, bringing the eyes and ears of the public to places that authorities might prefer undocumented. CoDECK, a project of the Pulse Arts Media Collective, aims to subvert the tools of government surveillance--the nonparticipatory panopticon--by giving people the power to actively share and discuss video-based content, and each other's perspectives, via a central online location...

Wow. Good thing that they decided not to use a Microsoft Operating system.