Dictation on the Run

Want to be able to type faster than the best secretary?  With unerring accuracy?
Have a look at the latest version of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, arguably the best speech recognition software around.  This particular edition that we are reviewing today is called Preferred Mobile and includes a digital Philips VoiceTracer recorder.

Cameras are rapidly increasing in the number of Megapixels these days.  In fact, we have just started seeing compact consumer cameras capable of taking pictures of up to 10 Megapixels!  Whether those cameras take quality pictures is another story to tell.  In general, with an increasing Megapixel count, that means you're working with larger pictures.  And with larger pictures, that's definitely going to mean larger file sizes.  The moment you press that snapshot button, the camera needs to store that large 10 Megabyte file (just an example) as quickly as possible into its memory.  This example leads us into the product we will be taking a look at: the Kingston 133X Compact Flash (CF) memory card.

Fellow Australian company 22Moo released an aggressively priced  Head Mounted Display for iPod and Other AV Devices today,

It's called the HMD800 and checks out at a hair below $200. US bucks, that is.

We might check them out and let you know our findings.

Read the Press Release below.

These days you pick your flash memory not only according to the capacity you want, but also the form factor is important and even how it looks.

An interesting form factor is the one that looks like a credit card, only a tad thicker.

The clever thing about this one is that the USB connector is totally flush with the card and makes for a compact unit.

Brando is marketing these 1 GB cards in a variety of prints.  This includes even a picture of the Mona Lisa!

Have a look at what this is all about.

Great Battery Life and Super Sensitive

Protecting your Gadgets

Why would you write a glowing review about a product that you can't even see?

That's precisely the point: you can't see it but it does have the very important job of protecting the shiny gadgets that you don't want to get scratched. 

And that's why they call it the InvisibleSHIELD.

I have put it to good use on two of my most treasured devices, my Nokia N80 and iPAQ 4700. 

Let's see how we went.

Swiss Made and Stunning

This nicely specced PocketPC phone from upstart company Zenum is designed by Jaren Goh in Singapore but conceived in Switzerland and that’s probably as far as “Swiss Made” goes these days…
It’s a beautiful concept phone and the company assures me that by the end of October they will send one to me to test out and thus convince a sceptical world that rather than labelling it as vaporware it’s a serious contender if you’re looking for a fully connected (GSM, WiFi, Bluetooth) device that also sports a 2MP camera.
Hopefully you’ll read the first in-depth user review here soon but to get you salivating, check out the preliminary specs below.

(By the way, Opus Operis means Completed Work, so we've got confidence to see the Opus live very soon!)

The other day I had the opportunity to have a quick look at the Nokia E61 which most people would categorise as a Blackberry type smartphone.
I only spent an hour with the E61 which probably doesn't do it justice so we'll just stick to the facts and let the pictures do the talking.