Reviews about interesting gadgets, gear, mobile technology and lifestyle products.
Product Requirements: Device: Any touch screen device The Rotring 600 Trio-Pen, available from Stylus Central, could almost be described as a substitute weapon – it actually resembles a self-defense tool that I was given as a gift years ago. It has the heft, and the shape of an eyeball poker! J This Rotring is actually […]
Product Requirements: Device: Compaq iPAQ (without expansion sleeves) Vaja (located in Argentina) creates some of the nicest quality leather PDA cases available. They have done it again with their iPAQ Sync-able case. This all leather padded case comes in a variety of colors: Brown Buffalo Skin/Brown Leather, Black Plain Leather/Black Plain Leather, Black Ostrich/Black Leather, Brown
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm III, IIIe, IIIx, IIIxe, IIIc, IBM WorkPad c5 or TRGpro It’s time to bring up a product that has been available for a while, but that you may have not yet tried. I’ve been looking at the goVox Digital Recorder by I-Vox since it came out last year. I just never thought
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The EM-500 is Casio’s first Pocket PC with a new body design since the E-100,105, and 125. The new EM-500 is smaller and lighter than their previous offerings and is being heralded as a mobile multimedia tool that targets a younger market. It is available in 5 different colors (Red, Blue, Sky Blue, Green, and
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Program Requirements: Desktop: Windows 95/98 or NT Device: Casio E-100 / 105 1.5 M free RAM How would you like to take digital pictures with your Casio E-100/105? Cool huh? How about recording mini movies with your Casio? Even cooler? That’s what I thought when I heard about the JK-710DC a small tube shaped camera
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Program Requirements: Device: Most Palm OS devices, Pocket PCs, and cell phones The eHolster Leather Professional is a one-of-a-kind product. It is a holster, made with leather, designed for carrying devices that fit the cell phone and PDA form factor. If you aren’t already adjusted to wearing a holster, this product may not be for
Program Requirements: Device: Palm III, IIIc, IIIx, IIIe, IIIxe, V, Vx, VII, VIIx, m100, IBM WorkPad, Handspring Visor, Sony CLIÉ and other PalmOS 3.0 or greater compatible handhelds. When I first obtained 2bit Software’s ‘QuickBits Palm Accelerator’, I immediately wanted to tweak my Palm Vx to its MAX to see just how far it would
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Product Requirements: Device: All touch screen devices Instead of having to carry a pocket full of pens and full size styli, Rotring has consolidated four of your most often used writing implements into one very well-designed and pleasing to the eye multi-pen, available from Stylus Central. The Rotring Quattro Executive is a fine example of
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Program Requirements: Device: Handspring Visor 150 K free RAM The Xircom SpringPort Modem 56 GlobalACCESS is a great option for Handspring Visor owners looking for an inexpensive way to get their device on the Internet. This conventional modem is made of black plastic and has two lights on the top to indicate connection status. Xircom
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Any PC with a PS/2 Keyboard connector The Flexboard Keyboard from Man & Machine, Inc. is the first keyboard that I have seen that you can roll up into a 4″ roll. Yes, I said roll up! The keyboard comes in several colors and versions. The Flexboard Office comes in dark gray,
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Device: Almost any PDA, such as: All Palm Models, All Handspring Visor Models, Sony Clie, HP Jornada P/PCs, Casio E-series P/PCs, Everex Freestyle, iPAQ, Phillips Nino, etc. My first impression when I unwrapped the Base Camp PDA Bag by Grinder Gear was that this happens to be one rugged little beast! The Base Camp
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Time is the one part of life totally beyond our control. So, we try to keep track of it as well as we can. We, Gadgeteers, can be especially frustrated in this endeavor because even our computers, PDA’s, and mobile phones don’t keep time very well. CPU-lag, you know. Well, I’ve found a solution that
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Program Requirements: Device: Palm III organizer series or greater, Handspring Visor Organizer series, Sony Clie 150 K free RAM (more like 500k, when you are using it) Desktop: Windows 95, 98, or 2000 Here is the 5-second version of my review: Get it, it works – If you use it, you will see results!
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The Sony CLIE PEG-S300 is Sony’s first Palm OS device. CLIE stands for Communication Link Information Entertainment (I really hate weird acronyms). It comes in two different versions. A mono and a color version. Right now only the mono version is available here in the US. The color version which is currently selling in Japan
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Program Requirements: Device: Palm OS 3.1 or higher 16 K free RAM Desktop: Windows, Linux, BeOS, Solaris I have high blood pressure. I’ve already had one stroke, and don’t want another. They are totally not fun. I also have a PalmPilot. I recently hit up the idea of using a database to keep track of
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Product Requirements: Device: Any touch screen PDA Retro 1951 Tornado Duo Pen Stylus from StylusCentral.com is my current favorite stylus/pen combo. This is a small all metal pen (except for the stylus tip) that comes in a variety of colors: Stainless Steel, Red, Black, Green, or Blue. The stylus also comes packaged in an aluminum
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Product Requirements: Device: Palm IIIc The Palm IIIc Sync-able Case from Vaja is a quality all leather, no Velcro case that comes in both a belt clip and non-belt clip version. Like other Vaja cases, they come in a nice variety of color combinations. You can get this case in Black Ostrich, Brown Alligator, Black Alligator,
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Product Requirements: Device: All touch screen PDAs The Rotring Trio Pen Essential is a budget priced multi-pen, available from Stylus Central. With a list price of $15.99, it is difficult to be too picky about this multi-pen’s performance; but because every dollar you spend should count, I’ll give you my impressions of the pen. The
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows 98/95, Mac OS 7.5 or later USB Port It looked so cool, I had to check one out. So I got my hands on the Cat Eye FinRing from BossWave. (Well, actually I got my finger on it). The idea of being able to control my computer’s mouse remotely from my
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Product Requirements: Desktop: Windows 98/95 or NT 4.0, 8mb RAM minimum, One available serial port, CD-ROM drive Macintosh Machines: PowerPC Processor, System 7.5.3 or higher The latest offering from Palm Computing is the m100. As in the past, this new device doesn’t have any major improvements, or compelling new features. Basically, it’s a Palm IIIe