You’re a master of the universe, meeting and greeting prospects from dawn until well after dusk. So why are you still typing up their contact info — or worse yet, lugging around a Rolodex like a chump? You need a scanner that can munch through a stack of business cards like a dog through a T-bone, and the CardScan Executive fits the bill nicely.… Read the rest
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Have you ever wanted to snap a still photo right in the middle of some event you’re videotaping? Neither have we — but clearly someone does. How else to explain the Canon Optura Xi’s ability to snap low-res digital photos, storing them on an SD card, while at the same time recording video to tape?… Read the rest
You might think that the addition of an overhyped networking technology wouldn’t be enough to save a crappy product from itself — and in the case of the Concord EyeQ Go Wireless camera, you’d be right. Unfortunately, that insight seems to have escaped the engineers at Concord Camera, who have dressed up their low-end dog of a digital camera with the inexplicable addition of Bluetooth.… Read the rest
Road warriors take heart: You no longer have to return to the office just to print your latest report. For that matter, you can cross off stopping at the drugstore to get your photos developed. Canon’s new i80 Bubble Jet printer, released in February, takes care of both chores in a sleek, portable package that lacks only speed.… Read the rest
James Bond kept tabs on the bad guys with a tracking display in the glove box of his Aston Martin. But the reality of dashboard navigation today, particularly if it involves both Bluetooth and GPS, isn’t so much like Goldfinger as it is like On Golden Pond.… Read the rest
Some day you’ll be able to discreetly Google the name of a new acquaintance using a heads-up display built into your eyeglasses, all without interrupting the flow of conversation.
Dream on. Ingineo’s new Eyetop tries to bring that day a bit closer, but in a way that only a masochistic, Cheetos-eating Linux geek could appreciate.… Read the rest
Royal Linea32
Come, gather round children, and let me tell you of the days when giants roamed the Earth, when personal computers were monstrous towers beneath our desks, and people went online by dialing up Prodigy with their 9,600-baud modems. It was 1990, and if the Royal Linea32 had been alive then, it would have been the queen of the PDAs.… Read the rest
Your faux Gucci handbag already holds an iPod and a tiny Casio Exilim camera. You need a PDA chic enough to take its place alongside these stylish tech toys, without flattening your alligator-skin wallet. The PalmOne Tungsten E is your PDA, baby.… Read the rest
Because you hate to compromise — on anything — Hewlett-Packard bundles almost everything you could possibly want in a handheld into the iPaq Pocket PC h4350. The result, predictably, looks a little glued-together, but that’s the price of having it all — you just can’t fit it into a neat little package.… Read the rest
FATHER OF THE STAR CHILD
Novelist Arthur C. Clarke is the author of some of the world’s most enduring science fiction stories, including 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Compaq Armada E500
A late Jurassic computer, but I still use it. It’s running Wordstar.… Read the rest