Electronics

Do new gadgets make you drool?

Let’s face it – most of you visiting this site probably love your gadgets. Laptops, computer accessories, electronic games, blackberries and high tech mobile phones. I know I do!

I enjoy hearing about new gadgets and trying to keep up with all the changes that are constantly going on. Some gadgets make me drool like my dog does when I offer her a treat … even if there’s no way I can afford any new electronic toys – at least not when they first come out. Better to wait until the prices come down and I can justify the need – or at least that’s what I tell myself.

Here’s some interesting videos about the latest gadgets coming out on the market. I’m sure you’ll find some of them pretty interesting and maybe one or two will even make you drool too.

We’ve got to get a new TV

by Tricia

I think it’s about time that my husband and I start looking for a new television set. We have a fairly nice Samsung DLP that we bought in 2004, but the light bulb has burned out twice now and the price of a new DLP light is NOT going down.

Also, when the TV’s on it hums. A high pitched hum that just drives me nuts. I’m sure it’s coming from the fan that’s on the light light bulb mount. I haven’t found much information about others complaining of this problem but I hate it. So it’s time to get a new TV.

Oh don’t worry. The DLP was very very expensive. We won’t be throwing it away. We’ll use it in the basement rec room, but it will no longer be the main TV for our household. Actually if we don’t use it as often we won’t have to replace that darn expensive light bulb as often.

The bulb costs over $400! We’ve replaced it twice. If we didn’t want an HDTV I suppose we could have bought another set just with what we’ve paid for those two light bulbs. Crazy huh.

So I’ve been looking at TV review sites. I found a nice one that has lcd tv reviews. It seems to have articles about all the main models and since we’re now thinking of an LCD or Plasma TV it’s a good place to start.

Do you know of any other television set sites that I should take a look at?

The New DocuPen Pen Scanner

by Tricia

Pen scanners have been around for a while, but there’s a new one on the market that’s a true technological advancement.

Planon’s latest pen scanner is called the DocuPen. It’s both a scanner and high tech pen at once. It’s battery operated for full portability and it can store up to 100 pages in it’s memory scanning each in four to eight seconds.

Many of the previous pen scanners were slower and did not have the ability to scan graphics. The DocuPen does it all.

The current price of this high tech gadget is $270. The DocuPen has a USB interface, scans at a max of 200 x 200, weighs 2 oz, has an 8 MB flash memory, and works with Windows 98, ME, 2000 and XP.

All you need to do is place the DocuPen on a piece of paper parallel to the text and move the pen downward over the page. When you want to see what you’ve scanned just connect the pen scanner to a computer using the USB interface.

I could see sales people and those who are frequently out of the office at meetings finding this new DocuPen quite handy.

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