Hispanic Enterprise - December 2007/January 2008 - (Page 21) owner who could use some occasional guidance, give the gift of a geek. Personal tech support is available remotely 24/7 or on-site from companies such as PlumChoice (www.plumchoice.com), Best Buy’s GeekSquad (www.geeksquad. com), HiWired (www.hiwired.com) or FireDog (www.firedog.com). Prices vary. Gift cards available. BACKIN’ ON UP * IMAGING VIDEO FLIP You can see some wonderful sights following the course your GPS lays out. But what about remembering where you’ve been? The new GPS from Mio Technology DigiWalker C720t comes equipped with a two-megapixel camera—and can embed GPS coordinates into images and navigate back to the photographed location. The DigiWalker comes pre-loaded with maps of the U.S., Canada and major roads in Mexico. The entry level C230 also offers voice directions. From $249, national retailers www.mio-tech.com Remember when a one-meg drive was all the rage—and big as a door stop? How about a one terabyte drive (that’s a thousand gigs) that’s 3.5 inches? Or a back-up drive that’s one-touch simple? Hitachi’s Deskstar 7K1000 hard drive will hold 300,000 three-meg photos (or the equivalent in files, HD videos or MP3s)— for $399. Maxtor’s OneTouch 4 line of back-ups make backing up a complete recovery of most PC hard drives onetouch simple—from $89 to $279. Want to add a little biometric security? The Aegis Bio from Apricorn uses encrypted biometric hard drive to securely access files with a fingerprint biometric sensor that unlocks drives ranging from 80GB to 250GB—starting at $179. Learn more at www.hitachigst.com, www.maxtor.com or www.apricorn.com. HISPANIC ENTERPRISE Want to shoot a video of a new product demonstration or a website introduction? Put away the camcorder and cables. And no more converting analog to digital. With PureDigital’s ultraslim FlipVideo, you can shoot high-quality video—with equally good audio, and post to computer in seconds. View 30 or 60 minutes via onboard memory on a no-glare 1.4inch screen. Then, pop out the swivel USB adapter and plug it in. The software launches and the .avi files transfer to the PC or YouTube or other apps. From $149, www.theflip.com TRACKING WHERE YOU’VE BEEN LOOK MA, NO HANDS! Bluetooth headsets are seeing constant sound improvements. The latest headsets from Jawbone, with its NoiseShield technology, and Plantronics Discovery 665, with AudioQ, use digital processing to enhance the speaker’s voice and eliminate background sounds, like wind, lawn equipment and crowd noise. From $50, www.plantronics.com and www. jawbone.com. LOOK MA, NO THUMBS! * REMOTE WORK Plug-in PDA keyboards are nothing new. What is new is the ways they’re being manufactured. Eleksen’s ElekTex smart fabric keyboard connects to BlackBerry, Nokia and Palm devices via Bluetooth. Write and edit documents comfortably with this 2.3 ounce, water-repellant rollup pad. $79.99, Sharper Image 21 December/January 2008 http://www.plumchoice.com http://www.geeksquad.com http://www.hiwired.com http://www.geeksquad.com http://www.firedog.com http://www.mio-tech.com http://www.plantronics.com http://www.jawbone.com http://www.jawbone.com http://www.theflip.com http://www.hitachigst.com http://www.maxtor.com http://www.apricorn.com
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