You must be another new...passenger? [He looks thoughtful, he's not sure that word is the one he is looking for but he just goes with it for now] Maybe the wrong word, but the point is welcome aboard I guess. I was under the impression it was more technology than magic myself, but Aqua was always the better spell caster than me.

[shrugs] So, I guess I could be wrong but the impression I got from everyone else was that it was tech.

By the way, they do more than just record...but they tend to take the special features into their own...lenses. I've been meaning to examine them myself, but I wasn't sure it'd be wise to take them apart yet.