1.) Apple iPod nano 8 GB
With eight amazing colors, a new curved design, and great new features, iPod nano rocks like never before. The Genius Playlist feature finds the songs in your music library that go great together and makes a playlist for you. With its built-in accelerometer, iPod nano is made to move. Give it a shake, and it shuffles to a different song in your library. Turn it on its side to flip through your album art in Cover Flow. And tilt, move, and play accelerometer-inspired games (games available separately). Watching movies, TV shows, and video is even more fun on the sharp 2-inch screen. And your photos (up to 7,000 of them) look great in portrait or landscape view. Available in 8 GB and 16 GB models, the 8 GB iPod nano puts up to 2,000 songs or 8 hours of video in your pocket.
Apple 8GB Black 4th Generation iPod Nano - MB754LLA/ Holds Up To 2,000 Songs In 128-Kbps AAC Format, 7,000 iPod-Viewable Photos And 8 Hours Of Video/ 2″ (Diagonal) Liquid Crystal Display With Blue-White LED Backlight/ 320-By-240-Pixel Resolution/ Give It A Shake To Shuffle Your Music/ Turn It Sideways To View Cover Flow/ Mac And Windows Compatible/ Black Finish.
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2.) Canon PowerShot SD1100IS
Canon’s powerful Face Detection Technology delivers even better results with the new SD1100 IS Digital Elph.
The Face Detection Technology continues to recognize faces in a scene, and concentrate exposure (daylight or flash) and focus upon them. But the Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS Digital Elph adds more: Face Detection WB means the camera concentrates upon faces when calculating white balance for the best possible skin tones. Face Select and Track lets the SD1100 IS Digital Elph user highlight one face among several in a scene, and the camera concentrates on that person, even as they move around the scene. Face Detection Technology is a powerful contributing factor in Canon’s new Motion Detection Technology.
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3.) Jawbone Bluetooth Headset
The Jawbone 2 is the next step in the integration of best-in-class noise elimination technology with personal design that is both humanistic and minimal. It has powerful noise suppression algorithms for use in the most extreme acoustic noise environments including battlefields and helicopters.
The algorithms use Jawbone’s two microphones and the VAS (Voice Activity Sensor) to accurately model the noise environment. Jawbone detects when and how a person is speaking, models the noise, and aggressively eliminates it. Conventional “noise eliminating” headsets do not have the VAS and can only estimate when speech is occurring with software-based Voice Activation Detection (VAD) systems.
For these systems to work, the speech must be significantly louder or spectrally different from the noise. These systems fail in loud environments or in the presence of other people’s speech. Furthermore, because they can’t accurately identify the speech signals, they distort the speech in the process of attempting to eliminate the noise. The result of this distortion is a significant degradation in intelligibility and quality in order to achieve a perceptual reduction in noise.
Widely recognized as the best Bluetooth headset on the market, the new Jawbone is 50 percent smaller than the original, award-winning Jawbone, offer over 4 hours of talk time, and comes with three earbuds and four earloops for a comfortable and personalized fit.
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4.) Apple iPod touch 16 GB
The iPod touch has always been an amazing iPod. And with its groundbreaking technologies–including a Multi-Touch screen, the accelerometer, and 3D graphics–and access to hundreds of games, iPod touch puts an amazing gaming experience in the palm of your hand. It comes in 8 GB, 16 GB, and 32 GB models with new volume controls and a built-in speaker. Play hours of music.
Create a Genius Playlist of songs that go great together. Watch a movie. Surf the web. View rich HTML email. Find your location and get directions with Google Maps. Browse YouTube videos. And shop the App Store for games and applications.
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5.) Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000
The Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 is one of the better webcams I have had the opportunity to use over the years. Its stylish design fits easily on top of my LCD screen, while its functionality and features continue to impress. However, Vista functionality can be an adventure at a few times.
First, let’s talk about the good — picture quality. Let me put it to you think way: This webcam works better than my high priced Sony Camcorder at picking up video in low-light settings. I was simply amazed the first time I used it in a room with compact flourescents in the middle of the night and had such remarkable clarity and picture quality. Logitech credits this ability with something they call RightLight technology (in the video review I get it backwards — sorry Logitech!). Whatever you want to call it, it’s one of the features that definitely makes this webcam stand above the rest.
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6.) Compaq iPAQ H3950
Compaq revolutionised the Pocket PC world with its first iPAQ, but since then we’ve seen only minor evolutionary tweaks. For example, the 3900 series of iPAQs is almost identical to the 3800 series, so they’re still just as big - 17mm thick, 200g in weight - and only include an SD slot. When Fujitsu Siemens packs in a Type II CompactFlash and SD/MMC slot into its Pocket LOOX, which weighs just 173g, it makes you wonder if the iPAQ has had its day.
But the first thing to strike you about these iPAQs is the plastic snap-over protective cover that’s attached to a removable sleeve. Its surface is a nirvana for forensic scientists, as it retains every single fingerprint. Once this cover is released and the unit powered on, however, Compaq can be forgiven almost everything. The display is outstanding and better than all other PDAs in this Labs.
This new transreflective display has two benefits. First, the colour rendition is superb. It’s only when you put the new iPAQs alongside earlier units that you realise how muddy the colours on the older iPAQs really are and that they’re incapable of displaying a true black. Second, holding the units at a slight angle no longer finds you apparently staring into side-mounted fluorescent tubes. The downside is that the display is harder to read in daylight when the backlight is dim or off.
Another evolutionary difference between the 3800 and 3900 series is their processor. The 3950 and 3970 are both based on Intel’s 400MHz XScale processor, which is all well and good, but these iPAQs feel no faster than their 206MHz predecessors.
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7.) Garmin nüvi 350 GPS
Navigation is just part of the journey, and the nüvi 350 is one of the first devices to recognize that. The built-in “Travel Kit” offers an MP3 player, an audio book player from Audible.com, a jpeg-format picture viewer, a world travel clock with time zones, a currency converter, a measurement converter, and a calculator.
In addition to the included travel tools, additional software add-ons are available, such as the Garmin nüvi 350 GPS Language Guide, with data provided by Oxford University Press. This software suite contains a multilingual word bank, phrase bank, and five bilingual dictionaries.
The multilingual word bank and phrase bank supports nine languages and dialects, including American English, British English, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, European Portuguese, European Spanish, and Latin American Spanish. Now you can look up and translate more than 17,000 words or 20,000 phrases per language — right in the palm of your hand. Through the unit’s text-to-speech interface, users can get a spoken pronunciation of each entry in the word bank, along with gender and part of speech information.
Another useful add-on software package, the Garmin nüvi 350 GPS Travel Guide, is loaded with information provided by Marco Polo. These guides put in-depth travel information such as reviews and recommendations for restaurants, tourist attractions, and more at your fingertips. The software allows you to navigate to an address or search points of interest– places like hotels, restaurants, shopping, and tourist attractions.
The nüvi 350 automatically calculates the fastest route and provides voice-prompted turn-by-turn directions along the way. The unit also audibly announces the name of upcoming streets– letting you keep your eyes on the road while navigating through busy traffic and tricky roadways. And if you stray off course, the nüvi 350 automatically calculates the quickest way to get back on track.
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8.) Sony DVPFX810 8-Inch Portable DVD Player
Sony’s DVP-FX810 8 Widescreen LCD boasts a rugged design with sophisticated features! The swivel and flip screen offers multiple viewing angle options whether you are in a car, train or plane, or at the beach. Watch a regular full-length movie with its up to 5 1/2 hour battery capacity (battery life may vary depending on usage conditions) or plug in the supplied car adapter for extended viewing. Includes remote control, batteries for remote, owners manual, AV cable, rechargeable battery pack, AC cdaptor, car battery charger, AV cable.
For entertainment on the go, Sony’s DVP-FX810 Portable DVD Player lets you enjoy movies, music and more anywhere! Offering up to three hours of battery life on a single charge, its sophisticated features and durable design make it the perfect travel companion. Equipped with an 8? Widescreen LCD Monitor, the DVP-FX810 plays back your DVD favorites with amazing detail and vibrant color. Perfect for road trips, on the plane, train, or at the beach, the Portable DVD Player’s swiveling LCD moves a full 360 degrees, letting you enjoy the view from any angle.
Use the convenient buttons on the LCD frame to control the play settings, replay or skip ahead to your favorite scene. The easy-to-use dual sensor remote offers even more viewing options, letting you control player functions from a distance. Perfect for anyone in the family.
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9.) Plantronics Discovery 925 Bluetooth Headset
The Discovery 925 features AudioIQ technology that blocks out annoying background noise in most situations, giving you clear calls every time. The earpiece lets you roam up to 33 feet from your Bluetooth phone and it supports multipoint technology, which allows two Bluetooth devices to be paired to the earpiece. This means you can receive and make calls from two of your phones without having to switch earpieces.
Of course you can still charge the ear piece directly with the AC charger, but with this convenient recharging case, you don’t have to worry about your earpiece running out of power while you’re on the go. Just place your earpiece in the case, and safely store it in your handbag or briefcase. When you’re ready to use it again, it will be fully charged with enough power for up to five hours of talk time.
Measuring 2.7 x 1.0 x 0.9 inches and weighing a mere 0.3 ounces, you’ll barely know that the Discovery 925 is in your ear. But with its striking onyx-black and silver color combination and minimalist features, this one-of-a-kind bluetooth headset will surely get you noticed–in a good way. (The earpiece is also available in alchemy-gold and cerise-pink).
Once you place the earpiece into your ear, making calls is as simple as it gets. It has a multi-function button on the diamond-shaped face that powers the device, dials or releases calls, triggers voice dialing, or kicks the earpiece into pairing mode. A second button lets you control the volume. For voice clarity, a 1.9-inch boom brings the microphone closer to your mouth to reduce background noise as you talk. The boom mic also houses the earpiece’s antenna. And finally, a micro-USB port is located on the side of the earpiece for charging.
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10.) Apple Mac Book Pro MB133LL/A
Stylishly and intelligently designed for mobile professionals, Apple’s MacBook Pro now includes Apple’s Multi-Touch technology (which debuted with the MacBook Air), allowing you to pinch, swipe, or rotate to enlarge text, advance through photos, or adjust an image.
Pro MB133LL/A gets a serious speed bump from Intel’s latest 2.4 GHz 45-nanometer Penryn series Core 2 Duo processor, which also helps to reduce power requirements and save on battery life. This model (MB133LL/A ) also has a mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display measuring 15.4 inches and a state-of-the art NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT video card with 256 MB of GDDR3 video RAM.
Meticulously designed and encased in sleek and sturdy aluminum, the MacBook Pro measures just 1 inch thin and weighs 5.4 pounds. Your hands have room to spread out on the full-size keyboard with crisp, responsive keys, and the MacBook Pro has a built-in ambient light sensor that adjusts the keyboard and display brightness so it’s easy to work in low-light settings. Other standard Apple “extras” includes a built-in iSight video camera and Apple’s magnetically connected MagSafe power adapter, which safely disconnects when under strain.
The magnetically connected MagSafe power adapter breaks cleanly away, without damage to either the cord or the MacBook Pro.
It’s pre-loaded with Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system, which enables easy backup of your most important data via Time Machine, a redesigned desktop that helps eliminate clutter. It also comes with the iLife ‘08 suite of applications–including iPhoto, iMovie, Garageband, and iTunes–and the newest version of the fast-loading Safari web browser. Other hardware features include a 200 GB hard drive, 2 GB of installed RAM (which can be upgraded to 4 GB), an 8x combo Superdrive (for burning dual-layer DVDs as well as CDs), built-in Gigabit Ethernet for high-speed networking, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR (Enhanced Data Rate), FireWire 400 and 800 ports, DVI video output, and an ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot for expansion solutions such as 3G wireless networking.
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