In one of the “Star Trek” movies, viewers got a glimpse of 24th-century journalists chronicling Captain Kirk’s every manic gesture with news cameras mounted on their heads.

Like so much of the technology in science-fiction films, those cameras have had a hard time staying in the future. Samsung’s revamped version of its Sports Camcorder, the SC-X210L, lets users fasten a remote lens to the head or on an arm for hands-free shooting.

The heart of the new Samsung device, which sells for $600, is an ultracompact, six-in-one camcorder, meaning that it is not only a digital camcorder, but also a digital still camera, webcam, voice recorder, audio music player and data-storage device. The camcorder, which has a 10X optical zoom and a 100X digital zoom, captures video images in the MPEG-4 ASP format, which Samsung says can compress about 34 minutes of high quality video onto a gigabyte of memory. It comes with one gigabyte of built-in memory, an SD-MMC slot for additional memory and high-speed U.S.B. for transfer to PC’s and PictBridge printers.

But what makes this camcorder (and its more modest sister, the $500 SC-X205L) literally a head turner is its wired, remote lens, which comes with mounting bands.

Strap this weather-resistant lens at eye level while racing on a dirt bike or slaloming downhill, and it becomes clear just how handy hands-free can be.