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Objects of Desire 4
Once again we tempt you with tender traps for your disposable
income. Phil South
brings you more gadgets and gizmos for you to enjoy...
 Shutterbug
buster
Taking pictures used to be such fun. Snapped films due to improper
loading, bad flash pictures due to shutter or flash failure... And now
compact cameras have APS, which makes life so much easier, but SLRs with
APS are so expensive, aren't they? Not any more. The Pronea gives you
Nikon quality for the price of a new high capacity hard drive. And you
will need a new drive after
you get this camera, you'll fill up many hard disks with the great pictures
you'll get from this camera. It's even better than digital cameras in many
ways too. Take an APS cartridge to your processing lab and they'll put it
directly onto Kodak PhotoCD. Cool.
Pronea APS SLR (399.99 EUR)
www.nikon.co.uk
 Big
screen small price
And speaking of Kodak and things being way too expensive, what about
video projectors, hmm? Out of your league? Well, not any more as the V600
range of video projectors has 1000 lumens and costs just £1800 (around
2700 EUR). It can project a huge TV picture on your wall in broad daylight
and accepts input from your computer or your video/DVD machine. What more
could you ask? Free DVDs? Well that would be nice, but it's not going to
happen.
Kodak V600 video projectors (2,700 EUR)
www.kodak.co.uk
 Sit!
Good boy! Nice Cylon!
Looking like something out of the old '70s Battlestar Gallactica TV show, Tekno the Robot Dog (called Teksta in Europe for some reason). He
can sit and stay, but better yet when he bumps into an obstacle he makes a
little robotic yelp which sounds uncannily like the noise that Homer
Simpson makes: DOH! He's programmable, and although not nearly as
expensive as the Sony AIBO, he is just as lovable. The perfect office pet,
house trained, silver, and way cool. Plus you turn them off rather than
put them to bed.
Tekno/Teksta the Robot Dog (60 EUR)
www.tekno-robot.com
 Up
against the wall, TV lover!
Oh yes, the flat TV... Actually it's the FlatTV from Philips. It's a TV set
you can hang on your wall, which of course uses the same technology as the
flat panel monitors we love here at DNJ. Plasma flat screen TVs and LCD
projector TVs are commonplace, but these are the first genuine LCD flat
TVs on the market. I have a spot on the office wall just BEGGING to be
covered with one.
Philips FlatTV (approx. 2,000 EUR)
www-eu.sv.philips.com
 All
your info is onHand
The onHandPC is a PDA that you wear as a watch. Yes, it's the ultimate
geek watch, a real PDA which hooks into Outlook and other PC software
which you can wear on your wrist. Using a small joystick at the base of
the screen you select items and bring information, yes even the time, up
onto the tiny green screen. There are as yet no plans to port Word to the
device, but then what kind of masochist would even contemplate writing
letters on their watch? Not as powerful as a PocketPC or a Palm, but much
cooler than either of them.
OnHandPC (250 EUR)
www.onhandpc.com
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