First Class
SHOGO A digital picture frame
with a twist: Not only can you
poke and prod to skim, catalog
and view high-resolution virtual
snapshots, but you can also share
photos with friends and download
songs, Internet radio broadcasts
and weather forecasts via WiFi.
realease.com • $299
MYLO COM- 2 Cross a laptop with
a T-Mobile Sidekick and you get this
adolescent-friendly “personal communicator.” Just fondle the 3.5-inch
screen or QWERTY keyboard to
wirelessly browse the Internet, listen
to tunes, make Skype calls, write instant messages or update your blog.
sony.com • $299
YOU CAN
TOUCH
THIS
HARMONY ONE Couch potatoes,
rejoice: Now you can rule the living
room from your favorite armchair by
jabbing away at the ultimate universal remote, effortlessly configurable
with more than 225,000 devices.
Simultaneously activating/controlling
multiple gizmos proves painless with
Harmony One’s 2.2-inch monitor and
raised buttons. logitech.com • $249.99
All right, we admit it: Technology can be intimidating.
Luckily, for those who still
can’t program their VCR, today’s manufacturers are taking
a more hands-on approach to
problem solving. Enter touch-screen functionality—an expected $4.4 billion business
by 2012, according to market
researcher iSuppli—which lets
you use physical gestures to
more intuitively access features
and input commands. Following
the iPhone’s success in 2007,
expect to see such capability appearing in everything
from cellphones to cameras to
video game systems and GPS
devices.
The following are just a few
new gadgets that put the power
of groundbreaking innovation
literally at your fingertips.
R700 Easily grab directions
using this slim, nifty-looking GPS
blessed with a 4.3-inch backlit
display capable of showing 3-D
maps in addition to hands-free
Bluetooth 2.0 calling and ample
multimedia options. Upgrade
to the R700t for real-time traffic
reports, which offer automatic job-saving route recalculations.
asus.com • $399
