Digipower’s DPS-9000 power pack is a universal battery that attaches to many (but not all) different digial cameras and camcorders. It attaches to the camera via a tripod mount. With the high cost of replacement OEM batteries, is this a viable alternative? We tested one for a couple of weeks to find out.
I’ve never seen anyone complain about this, but I used to have a devil of a time with heart rate monitors. I would strap them around my chest, but I usually wouldn’t get an accurate reading until I was dripping wet with sweat. I tried wetting the contacts with water, but it didn’t seem to do much good.
A few weeks ago, I got my answer from a Black Eyed Peas song. I happened to be running and frustrated with my heart rate reading when the song, “Disco Club,†came on my random mix. The lyric that helped me was, “Rub it on your belly like an ultrasound.†They usually use some product like KY Jelly or Astroglide with ultrasound devices to get a better reading. I thought that it might work for my heart rate monitor.
The next time I exercised, I applied a thin coating of Astroglide to the contacts of the heart rate monitor. From the moment I put it on, I got an accurate reading. No more frustration while I’m waiting to get sweaty enough to get a correct reading.
The ThinkOutside Bluetooth keyboard is designed to be a true keyboard for PDAs, mobile phones, and Tablet PCs that don’t have their own keyboards. Does it work? Is it as good as a regular keyboard? We put one to a long term test. Read on for the report.
Logitech has released a series of Bluetooth wireless headphones for iPod, PC, and MP3 players. The three types are essentially the same stereo Bluetooth headphones with three different adapters; the headphones are also resold by HP and Toshiba—we haven’t figured out who actually makes them yet. We tested them with an iPod, Archos 420 video player, and Powerbook.
The iPod nano may be “Impossibly Small,†but this little player costs less than half the cost of the cheapest Nano. I bought the My Musix MP3 Player about seven months ago. After dropping it several times and using every day on my hour long bike ride to work, it still plays perfectly. It is a player that comes with a 1GB Sandisk SD card. You can swap out the SD card for any other and it will run just fine. You can have four little cards and have as much memory on hand as the best iPod Nano if you want. When I bought this, 1GB Sandisk SD cards cost over a hundred bucks, so I essentially got this player for free with a 1GB card. Now, you can get a 1GB card for much cheaper, so it isn’t as great a deal as I got back then.
“Well there’s this one…†is what I would hear every time I walked into a watch shop asking for a good looking digital watch for a woman. No matter which features I asked for, they would always pull out this one. It started to bug me after a while because I would specifically ask for a stopwatch, yet this is the first watch they would bring out. That’s because it was the only watch they had to bring out.
This watch has some great features. The date displays with the time. There is a light, so I can read it at night. It looks better than some bright pink plastic watch. Oh, and it has an alarm. What it doesn’t have is what made me have no use for it. There is no stopwatch, no countdown timer and no dual time. I could give up one of these three things, but not all three.
This watch is great if you need to know the time and date. If you want to measure time in any other manner, however, you’re out of luck.
I just got my new digital camera, the Panasonic FZ30. This is Panasonic’s latest “super zoom†camera, with a resolution of 8 megapixels and a 12X Leica zoom lens. After experimenting with the camera for a few days, I’m very pleased with the camera. I’m working on a detailed review, but in the meantime here are a few first impressions:
SD (secure digital) cards are becoming increasingly popular for digital camera storage. They’re tiny, convenient, and getting affordable in sizes as large as 1GB and 2GB. But they come in a bewildering array of different speeds and prices, even within one manufacturer’s line. What’s with the different card speeds, and which one do you need for your camera? This article gives you the details.
If you have been searching for a good-looking digital watch that is also functional, this one fits the bill. I own this watch, except mine is the negative display version. I have owned it for a couple of years now and I thought it had died a horrible death, which was why I was looking for a new one. It turned out that the jeweler that I took the watch to for a battery replacement was incompetent or gave me dead batteries. This watch has two batteries, so when it comes time to replace them, do it yourself. It will just break a jeweler’s brain.
The cool thing about this watch is how functional it is. It displays the date and day with the time. It has a dual time function, so when we go to Las Vegas, all I have to do is hold down one button and suddenly, my watch is on Vegas time. It has a stopwatch. When you put it in stopwatch mode, the chronograph will be counting right with your time in the spot where the date used to be. The same is true for the countdown timer and alarms. The light will turn on every time you press a button, which is kind of bad for battery life, but great when compared to so many women’s watches, which don’t have a light at all.
Now, the uncool features. It is not an inuitive watch to learn to use. You really need to read the directions to figure out how to set it. Keep the book that comes with it and guard it with your life because you’ll need it. On the back of the watch, there are little indicators that try to jog your memory about the function of the four (nearly invisible) buttons. Just be careful. If your idiot jeweler puts the back on backwards, the indicators will be wrong.
I have yet to find a watch better looking or more functional than this for women and I have been searching for a couple of years now. I’m almost tempted to buy another one as a backup just in case the jeweler REALLY screws up mine next time I need a new battery.
If you own a digital camera or camcorder, there’s a good chance you’ve spent some money on expensive extra rechargeable batteries. OEM batteries are often in the $50 range, and while there are a wide variety of cheap replacements, most of them are inferior quality. Fortunately, Maxell makes replacement batteries for many models. After testing two different Maxell batteries for a few weeks, here’s our quick review.
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