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Tuesday, October 25, 2005
Perfect Still/Video Camera? - Minolta Z6 - $370 Well, perfect is a stretch, but the Konica Minolta Dimage Z6 6MP Camera is just about the perfect camera to keep with you at all times.A 6MP, 12x optical zoom camera gives you excellent quality photos, but this Minolta series has full 640x480, 30fps video with full use of optical zoom and an anti-shake system while you are shooting. It uses 4 AA batteries, so you can use it anywhere as well. Storage is on SD cards, and it comes with a 16MB card. The Z series all have gotten great reviews, and if $370 shipped is too much, most anything above the Z2 will shoot full 640x480, and some are as cheap as $200 refurbished. If you want it locally, Circuit City is $380 and you can check local availability. | ||
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
512MB Player, Photo Viewer, Recorder Under $70 I don't really like managing playlists and keeping everything on one large player, I just like filling my player and playing everything, and changing it when I'm bored. So forgive me if this is too small these days, but it'll hold about 10 CDs, and when you can get a player with this many features, that looks this good, under $70 shipped, I think it's a no-brainer. The NHJ V@mp or Vamp VP-350 is plain black and has a 1.9" 4096 Color STN LCD that you can view photos on, or lyrics, or apparently plain text or a phonebook. It plays back MP3, WMA and Ogg Vorbis files with SRS WOW effect, has an FM tuner, a voice recorder with a microphone, and line-in for direct-to-MP3 encoding. All of that would make it a great deal, but NHJ blows past everyone by including a phone book, calculator, stopwatch, a text-to-speech converter (on the PC) to load text files as MP3s, and two games (Ice Breaking and Die Hard). Now we're talking... Then the neck strap, well, it's almost like they're just toying with the competition at that point.Be sure and buy it here for $60 and $7 shipping, there are a lot of places selling it for over $150. UPDATE: geeks.com sold out, and has it back at about $90 delivered. Still great, just more money. | ||
Thursday, October 13, 2005
MPEG4 Camcorder - Samsung A50 under $200 Yes, it is meant to be a digital camera, but that doesn't mean the Samsung Digimax A50 isn't a capable camcorder as well.For under $200, you get a 5MP digital camera with 3x optical zoom and SD card compatibility, like many other cameras. But for the occasional video here and there, Samsung has added full 640x480, 30fps MPEG4 movie mode, which will record up to and hour on a 1GB SD card. It can zoom while shooting video as well. Here is a sample of video from the i5, which is more expensive because it's slimmer. But it should look very similar, as all the rest of the features are the same.  The i5 is around $250 delivered if you prefer a smaller and nicer looking camera.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Control Skype Under $20 I like Skype a lot, but I hate plugging and unplugging my headset when people call.A nice thing in Skype is that you can lock it to a particular sound device, so this Syba SD-SKY-CTRL Skype controller works perfectly for my situation. Normal sound and phone rings come through my speakers, and my Skype calls are dealt with through this headset. It also includes controls for volume, accepting calls, and muting. Under $20 shipped made it an easy decision for me, although I wish they had the connector for cellphone headsets instead of regular headphone jacks, and I wish it had a keypad for dialing numbers. | ||
Monday, October 10, 2005
Why You Don't See Sony or Apple HereJust a note for the few questions we get about this.The products we feature are here because we don't see coverage of them elsewhere. If you think you're a gadget fan and you don't know when an iPod comes out, we're not going to be able to help you anyway. But for the record we aren't Apple or Sony haters or anything like that. Besides, I don't think you can be a self-respecting gadget-lover and carry around products with things like a warranty, support, or a future. Really though, we're only good at digging around for inexpensive relative unknowns, so that's what we'll stick with for now. | ||
Sunday, October 09, 2005
5MP & 3x Zoom Under $90 - Concord EyeQ 5330z This is the best deal I could find on a 5 megapixel camera with any actual optical zoom, and I was pretty surprised it was something even as decent as Concord.The Concord EyeQ 5330z has a 2560x1920 sensor resolution, a 3x optical zoom, and it uses CompactFlash cards for storage to improve its included 32MB. It also includes a mic and does record video up to 320x240. The LCD viewscreen is a 1.8". The $90 includes free shipping, as well.  Update: Sold out, too quickly for me even to get one. TigerDirect has the newer 5340z for $100 after $30 rebate though, still seems pretty good for the price. Looks a little nicer too.
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Tuesday, October 04, 2005
Ultimate Vaporware - The Negroponte $100 Laptop Normally we post on products that are currently available. I'm making an exception, for a product I think will never see the light of day at the projected cost, because it's annoying how much coverage it's getting.Who am I to make predictions on the One Laptop One Child Project? No one, but who are they to make their claims? Look at the picture! Is there a single piece of physical evidence that this thing is anywhere close to even a prototype? My main problem is the feel-good attitude of the project. They will only sell to governments that will give it away, they won't sell it commerically apparently. Which is stupid. If you look at the proposed specs -- ruggedized, crankable, sunshine-viewable, solid state storage -- private people would easily pay $300+ for such a machine. Which, if it was possible to make for under $100, would pay for two more for the underprivileged. Their distaste for dirtying their hands with capitalism is so disingenuous it's pathetic. The most irritating thing about this piece of air is that it won't matter if it succeeds or not. Everyone involved will get credit for making the attempt, even if it helps exactly zero underprivileged children. Negroponte will always be known as a champion of the poor. My heroes, on the other hand, are the corporations that are out there producing products and driving down prices every day through competition. Not quite as glamorous as making things up out of thin air, but much more effective in a world full of reality. | ||
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