New Gadget 2011

Rabbiting On

Posted by newbie Saturday, June 30, 2007 0 comments

We're partial to bunnies around these parts, so when we heard someone had hooked one up to Internet, our ears pricked up. This odd little gadget is Nabaztag Tag ($190, nabaztag.com). Put him in a Wi-Fi hot spot and he'll start talking every so often, delivering messages, playing Internet radio or reading website for you. Push the button on his head and he can respond to your voice commands for weather reports and stock quotes. Think of him as an adorable harbinger of the coming age of frivolous electronics.

Electric Spider

Posted by newbie Friday, June 29, 2007 0 comments

The gap between the cell phone and the full-bore computer is shrinking by the second. Witness OQO's Model O2 ($1,500 to $1,850, oqo.com), a complete Windows Vista machine that weighs just a pound and fits in the palm of your hand. It sports a touch screen for easy navigation, has a slide-up screen that reveals a full QWERTY keypad and a 60-gigabyte hard drive. Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are standard, and you can opt for a built-in high-speed wireless module that will work with either Verizon's or Sprint's service.

Sansa Express: The Shuffle Killer

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People shopping for cheap MP3 players often default to the Aplle iPod shuffle because of the ads-and hey, it works with iTunes. But listen up, folks, SanDisk's cool new player costs about $20 less and comes with some slick features the shuffle can't match.

The Sansa Express has a vibrant 1.1-inch OLED screen for menu navigation, a digital FM tuner, and voice recording. And you can upgrade the 1GB storage by adding a microSD card-you can't do that with the shuffle. The Express lets you navigate your music library by artist, song title, and playlist. Also nice is how the left side of the player holds a USB connector that can be covered by a removable cap.

There's no denying that the Sansa Express is a budget purchase. It's not the most amazing music player out there, nor does it claim to be, but what it does, it does perfectly. Without a doubt, this is the new cheap MP3 player to beat.
Sansa Express: $59.99

Jukebox Hero

Posted by newbie Monday, June 25, 2007 0 comments

Learning the guitar is something best done in private. Tascam's MP-GTI MP3 player ($269, tascam.com) provides a practice space inside your headphones. Expressly designed with apprentice guitar gods in mind, it has a built-in metronome and tuner; plus it lets you loop sections, adjust tempo and shift pitch. Plug in your ax and it'll even supply overdrive and other effects.

Stanton T.90

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Even if you're not spinning records at clubs till dawn, Stanton DJ's new professional turntable isn't a bad piece of audio equipment to add to your entertainment system. Audiophiles agree that vinyl still has a fuller and richer sound than CD, and the Stanton T.90 USB is more than a mere "record player". It offers a high-torque direct-drive motor and three playback speeds- just in case you still have those old 45- and 78-rpm records lying around.

It also has a +/-8 and 12 percent pitch slider, and this turntable can even let you adjust the tempo of a record without affecting the pitch.

But what really makes the T.90 stand out is support for S/P DIF digital and USB output, so you can transfer your favorite songs on vinyl records directly to a CD recorder or a convert into the spin of things. Check more info at www.gearlog.com