Ever since I was a little kid, I always wanted walkie talkies. I remember begging my Dad for a pair and one day he came home with two that he had picked up at a garage sale. I had to then coerse my kid sister to play army or cops and robbers with me outside […]
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Official Gadgeteer Hands On Review: Compaq Aero 1500 Series by Julie Strietelmeier Last date revised: 11/10/99 Program Requirements: Desktop: 486/33DX or higher processor (Pentium 90 recommended) Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0 8mb RAM minimum One available serial port CD-ROM drive Compaq has just released a new Palm-size PC. Surprisingly, it’s not a color unit, but
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Program Requirements: Desktop: Windows 95/98 or NT 4.0 The new thin clam shell EPOC PDA by Psion is called the Revo. I’ve always liked Psion PDAs because they are well made and their built in software is powerful and full featured. I was really hoping that Psion would come out with a non keyboard palm
Program Requirements: Device(s): All Palm OS devices (uses 17k) WindowsCE devices (uses 30k) The Travelboard by Genovation is a portable keyboard for the PalmPilot, Visor, and WindowsCE devices. What is great is that this one keyboard will work with any compatible device as long as you have the appropriate driver installed on each device. I’ll
Device: PalmPilot or Palm III series PDA with Modem The Versid Protective Field Case from Tangent Systems, Inc. is a black non-leather play through case for your PalmPilot or Palm III with an attached modem module. This case was actually developed for use with their temperature acquisition module which uses the modem housing. It was
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Until PDAs have true voice recognition, we have to use some type of manual input method to enter our data into them. The Palm-size PC comes with a built in popup QWERTY keyboard and a Grafitti like option called JOT. This review will look at them and other input options that are also available to
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Device: Gameboy Color, Gameboy Pocket The Gameboy Color and Gameboy Pocket are great little handheld game devices except for one thing: You can’t play with them in the dark. That is until now… Nyko’s Wormlight will allow you to play games on your Gameboy Color or Gameboy Pocket in the dark. The Wormlight has a
The PalmVelope XL by Tware Solutions Inc. is a play through neoprene case designed for use with the Casio E100/105, Philips Nino, HP Jornada, Gameboy Color and similar sized devices. The cases come in several color choices such as Pacific Blue, Basic Black, Burgundy, Forest Green, Navy Blue, Purple, Red and Teal. I reviewed this
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The Casio E-100/105 Body-Suit case by Extreme Limit is a play through black leather case with white stitching. The Body-Suit has a leather holster that the Casio can easily slide into. It doesn’t require any Velcro to hold it in place. The holster is actually quite snug so that there shouldn’t be any fear of
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The Visor from Handspring has finally arrived on the scene! Here’s a little snippet of background info for those of you new to Palm OS devices. Jeff Hawkins started Palm Computing in 1992. He invented the wildly successful PalmPilot line of personal digital assistants. After several years of great success he and Donna Dubinsky (former CEO of Palm Computing)
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Device: Gameboy Color The Shock ‘n’ Rock by Nyko is a 4 in 1 accessory for the Gameboy Color. It has a force feedback module, outputs amplified stereo sound, has a rechargeable battery pack and includes an AC adapter. The module is made of translucent purple plastic. It easily snaps on and off of a
Well, I’m pretty much moved in (if you call 1,000,000 boxes in your garage moved in…) now. So, you should start seeing more activity on the website.
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The CM220 Universal Mount for Palm-sized Computers by Arkon Resources Inc. is a PDA holder that can be affixed to a vehicle or other location. This holder unlike the Unimount by Revolve Design is compatible with any PDA that is between 4.5″ and 5.3″ tall. Some of the PDAs that will work with this mount
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Hi Folks. Just wanted to check in. I don’t seem to update this page as often as I should. I’ve been quite busy lately. I’ve been in the process of moving to a new house and selling my current house. I didn’t know what stress was till now. 🙂 I do have some nifty gadgets
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Rhodiana has created two play through cases for either the Palm V or Palm III/x Connected Organizers. These cases are made of 1/8″ black laminated ballistic nylon. They are padded with dense foam and lined with smooth nylon taffeta. The case doesn’t require any Velcro to hold the PDA in place (Yay!). Two heavy duty
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Program Requirements: Device: WindowsCE device with 130k free (ROM files use additional RAM). PalmGB by Revolutionary Software Front is a Gameboy emulator for Windows CE. With it, you have access to 100’s of quality games (…if you know where to find them). An emulator is a program that allows you to run programs made for
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A new line of leather PDA cases will be available soon through various OEMs here in the US. The company which is based in Turkey is called Dimension. They produce a nice selection of high quality cases. They were kind enough to send me their entire line (they even embossed my Gadgeteer logo into the
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I have noticed that there is still no mention of the new 5mx machine from Psion, so wanted to offer my own brief review of it. There are several excellent reviews already available that go into extreme detail about the specific differences from the Series 5, so I am not going to cover this material.
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The Palm VII is the nifty new wireless Palm OS PDA by 3Com. It can send, and receive information when you are away from your desk, in your car, at the mall etc. And it does this without needing a separate cellphone, modem or landline connection. To look at the Palm VII, you would think that it is
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PC Commander from Concept UK is an infrared module which enables you to control your Windows desktop PC with a regular TV/VCR universal remote control.This small 1.5″ x 1″ module has an LED to show when it is active and an IR Sensor to receive commands. Attached to the module is a long serial