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Garmin eTrex GPS review

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The Garmin eTrex GPS is one of the hottest mini portable GPS gadgets on the market, weighing in at 5.3 ounces. If you need a reliable robust GPS, look no further.

Not only does this device keep you from getting lost, but it also can track how fast you are moving and how long it takes you to get from place to place. If you are looking for a cheap and reliable portable GDP system, you might want to give this gadget a look.

"If there's one thing to say about the Garmin eTrex GPS, it's that it's so yellow; it matches the Sun in brilliance. If there are two things to say, it's that it's a great little portable GPS system that guarantees that you'll never get lost. If there are three things to say about it, it's that it's also waterproof -- and guarantees that you'll never get lost underwater, either."

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Creative Zen Micro Photo 8 GB MP3 Player review

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If you want to stand out from the crowd, the iPod crowd of course, or you fancy an mp3 player of superior in quality, you should check out the latest Creative Zen Micro Photo 8 GB mp3 player.

It might not be as compact or sleek as an iPod, but regarding price and performance, it might be better. The Zen Micro can hold twice as much data as the iPod Nano, and is still cheaper.

"iPod's are so hip, so sleek, so brilliantly white or ebony black, that Apple has a virtual Mp3 player monopoly. Because of their sexy marketing campaigns and the fact that even your grandparents own one, the iPod has take attention away from some of the smaller, but easily just as good (if not better) Mp3 players that are also out on the market."

Learn more at DevLIB

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iPod 60GB Photo Review

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How does 15,000 songs or 25,000 pictures in a device not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes sound? Read on for our review of the fourth generation iPod photo.

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Geeky Girl Gloves

Ladies, did the heater in your office go out causing your fingers to stiffen up? In the middle of a guild war but your hands cannot move fast enough because of the chill in the air? No problem!

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Have a Want for Wifi

Linksys is ramping up their production of 802.11n offerings. Find out what they will have in stores starting next week, as well as what 802.11n even gives to the wireless world.

Linksys is all set to introduce faster Wifi products, basing much of their new line on the IEEE 802.11n standard draft. What this allows is for much higher bandwidth, as well as improved range. The first few offerings from Linksys include the WRT300N Wireless-N Broadband Router and WPC300N Wireless-N Notebook Adapter. The price range is somewhat steep, at $120-$150, but the bandwidth increase is set to be almost double that of the products currently on the market – 100 megabits per second compared to the 802.11 g, clocking in at 54 megabits per second.

The 802.11n standard is backwards compatible with both 802.11b and 802.11g, and there should be quite a few more products coming out from the various vendors throughout the rest of the year. One big feature with this standard is support for home wireless video.

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TomTom GO 910 portable GPS system reviewed

You might wish you had sprung for a GPS device before this weekend's little trip to the in-laws, which may or may not have involved two hours of being lost in a pair of cul-de-sacs, but we figured you'd still like to know what you're missing out on. The TomTom GO 910 heads the GO series, and sports a 4-inch widescreen touchscreen, Bluetooth, MP3 playback off of the 20GB hard drive, and extensive iPod integration. Sounds like most of the features function well and as advertised. There's quick and easy rerouting, clear directions which even include street names read aloud via text-to-speech, and an easy to use remote for those backstreet drivers.

The only problem the reviewer had with navigation was an outdated POI database that guided him to a stadium which had been torn down five years prior. The Bluetooth connection offers up traffic and other information over your phone's wireless Internet connection, though, while the phone does have maps for Europe, the US, and Canada, there's no live traffic info for the US yet. The other main caveat with the player is the price.

At $799 you probably afford to pay a man to dress up as a princess and drive you to wherever you need to be, but we're not sure if he would take as kindly to an iPod connector cable.

Source: Engadget

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Ricoh Caplio R4 superzoom compact reviewed

Of course the first thing you notice about the Ricoh Caplio R4 six megapixel compact is how freakin' huge that lens is -- and luckily, at least according to Digital-Lifestyles, it knows how to use it. Equally impressive at both zoom extremes, the 28-200mm equivalent, 7.1x barrel of a lens includes handy features such as optical stabilization for negating hand shake on tight shots, and even an on-screen cursor for manually selecting the focus area in macro mode.

Other nice touches include a skew-correction feature that adjusts non-level shots and and histogram function for technical types, but some issues with picture quality -- most notably visible banding in a few shots and significant noise at higher ISOs -- earned this model a good-but-not-great 84%.

Still, the Ricoh definitely gets a thumbs up from D-L, and the sub-$450 pricetag won't break the bank.

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Instant de-icing film technology is here

Ice scrapping is a thing of the past thanks to a new film technology developed by a Dartmouth College professor. Surfaces prone to icing up can be de-iced in a jiffy, great news for all the motorists out there.

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