The 310XT watch features a built-in GPS receiver and an optional heart-rate monitor. It is waterproof to 50 meters, which means it can take part in the swimming portion of a triathlon. This newer model has improved calorie consumption measurement software as well as a “virtual partner,” a program that simulates running with — or against — a partner of similar fitness and speed.

The watch can support exercise information wirelessly to your computer, giving you to transfer workouts on a Mac or PC. A built-in technology captures your location even when you’re not in sight of a GPS satellite, ensuring an accurate measurement while running under trees or between skyscrapers. The 310XT, which should be available this summer, will cost $350 ($400 with heart monitor).

This week the Acer company revealed its new Timeline series of notebooks, with prices starting at about $700. The new Timeline series claims up to 8 hours of battery life with a conventional hard drive, and 10 hours with a solid-state drive. The heaviest model in the lineup is just more than five pounds; the lightest is 3.5 pounds.The Timelines promise to turn the heat down with their “Laminar Wall Jet” technology, which is supposed to redirect cooling air along the bottom side of the notebook.

There are a few screen sizes, from 13 inches to 15 inches. The company gave Acer an edge in aggressively cutting prices and also jumping into the smartphone market. To run a business with lower costs is good when the market is growing.

SpacePilot Pro is a mouse full of wow for designers and engineers who work in three-dimensional computerized environments. SpacePilot has a built-in color LCD screen, which can display e-mail, messages and other customizable visual information, but the substance of the mouse is to expedite workflow and navigation through 3-D spaces like Autodesk Inventor, Microsoft Virtual Earth and SolidWorks.

The device has “six degrees of freedom sensor technology … by lifting, pressing and turning the controller cap, design engineers can easily pan, zoom and rotate without stopping to select commands.

Price: $500

Sony has finally announced an OLED Walkman, the Walkman X Series, to go on sale in Japan next week. The cost of OLED is little expensive, $400. The OLRD Walkman is smaller than an iPod touch at three inches, the 16-gigabyte or 32-gig models, dressed up in glossy black or red, will incorporate wireless, a Web browser, and “hybrid” operation with a touch-panel and a few important buttons. A FM tuner is built in, as is some noise-cancellation circuitry.

The Nikon company has just announced the D5000, a model which fills the gap between it popular D60 and D90 models. The Nikon D5000 offering features like high-definition video, 11-point auto focus and Live View. The D5000 name is intentionally created to set the camera apart. It’s not an entry D.S.L.R. - the price is a bit higher and the features are more advanced. It’s an ideal mate for beginners and also a good friend to non-amateurs.

The D5000 comes with a kit (18mm to 55mm, f/3.5-5.6G VR lens) for $849. Nikon will also offer two-lens kit that adds a 55mm to 200mm, f/4-5.6 zoom lens for $1,100 or body only for $729. The 12.3-megapixel D5000 employs the same sensor as the D90, for instance, and it offers the same 11-point auto-focus system (the D60 has only three AF points). That means the D5000 will provide faster and more accurate auto-focus than the D60. The D5000 can record video at 720p (1280×720 pixels at 24 frames per second), and video can be captured with image stabilization when using a Nikkor lens.

The D5000 also packs a whopping 19 automatic scene model, as well as several new in-camera editing features, including a soft filter effect to smooth out faces and a perspective control that enables users to correct distortions of up to 10 percent that often appear in architectural photographs. But the D5000 cannot control multiple SpeedLights, and it lacks a depth-of-field preview capability, as well as the ability to accept an ancillary battery pack. In conclusion I will add that the D5000 still delivers the best of both models at a reasonable price.

The STAND BY MI V2 is a perfect stand for your Mac Mini with side access 4-port USB2.0 hub.  It has a great design concept and bend in with your Mac Mini and the rest of other Apple accessories on your desktop. The new STAND BY MI V2 inherits same solid material and finish as all of our other quality stands:  heavy steel provide sturdy support, aluminum color powder coated, non-skid footing. The USB2.0 hub can work with or without provided wall adapter.

Features: Sturdy design; side access powered 4-port USB2.0 hub; compact power adapter; powdered coat in aluminum color; optional Power Grip Bracket available.

Dimension: 12″(W) x 9″(D) x 2.3″(H)

Package includes: STAND BY MI V2 Stand; USB2.0 cable; Power adapter

The special edition of LEICA ‘Safari‘ with a production of only 500 units, features the olive green painted LEICA M8.2 and the silver anodized finished LEICA ELMARIT-M 28mm f/2.8 ASPH, as well as lens, an exclusive Billingham camera case and an elegant carrying strap. The top cover, bottom plate, camera back and the leatherette „VULKANIT” covering are all coated with a resistant olive green paint finish, which provides a pleasant touch and grip. All operational elements are finished in silver chrome and therefore match with the silver anodised lens.

The LEICA ELMARIT-M 28 mm f/2.8 ASPH has very compact dimensions and breathtaking performance, exclusively available in the Limited Edition „Safari”. By using silver anodizing on aluminum parts, the low weight of only 180 grams has been maintained. The lens is completed with a classic metal lens hood, also in silver anodized finish. The camera has a stylish brown strap consists of tan-coloured calfskin, the inner side of anti slip pigskin. It’s very high quality can be seen for example by the carefully finished hemlines of the strap.

Price range: $8,950.00

The OCZ Vertex Series Mac Edition Solid State Drives is a part of the latest important discoveries in SSD technology. The OCZ Mac Edition Solid State Drives are performed in Apple’s own labs. The OCZ Vertex Series Mac Edition drives includes speeds up to blazing 240MB/s sequential read and 170MB/s sequential write and 64MB onboard cache, while delivering extended battery life, increased system responsiveness, and superior durability compared to conventional hard drives.

All OCZ Vertex Series SSD drives come with a two year warranty and OCZ’s legendary service and support. Vertex series SSD drives are available in ample storage capacities of 30GB, 60GB, 120GB, and 250GB.

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This is a 2/1 cellphone. It is created by NTT DoCoMo and the two parts held together magnetically.When separated, the keypad still controls the screen. There is also a wrist band so you can wear the screen on your arm.

The Samsung Impression pretend to be the first phone to use an AMOLED screen. It stands for Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode, which adds up to an exceedingly bright screen with high-intensity color.

HTC says the Snap will be a medium- to low-price handset. It includes a feature called “Inner Circle” that moves e-mails from people you choose as most important to the top of your inbox.

Garmin, of GPS fame, displayed its first phone with the company’s navigation technology built in. Some cite the Nuvifone as the GPS industry’s acknowledgment that navigation is moving from standalone dashtop boxes to mobile devices.

The Samsung Instinct s30 come after to the company’s first Instinct, which SprintNextel introduced last year to compete with the iPhone.

The newest handset Motorola’s Evoke QA4 is with full touchscreen technology.

The new Cinemizer Plus eyewear are created by the optics maker Carl Zeiss and gives a more cinematic experience by playing back video via a headset on iPhone and video-enable iPods. While enjoying television, movies and 3-D video played on an iPhone, everything looks as if they’re on screen in a multiplex.

The final image appears as it it were on a 45-inch screen viewed from six feet away. The Cinemizer Plus also merges LCD screens and individual diopter focus adjustment (-3.5 to +3.5D), which means that anyone who wears glasses can focus the screen images to make them crisper and sharper. The video eyewear will be available at the end of May for $449 and comes with a built-in battery so it won’t waste your priceless iPhone.

The Verbatim’s Quad Interface desktop hard drive can connect by U.S.B. 2.0, Firewire 400, Firewire 800 and eSATA for sharing and collaboration. The Quad Interface drive is available in 500 gigabytes for $180 and 1,000 gigabytes (or one terabyte) for $250. As well as the drive comes with a brunch of cables to collaborate with quartet of ports. The drive works with Windows 2000, XP or Vista and Mac OS X.

The external hard drive includes Nero BackItUp 4 Essentials software that allows you to automatically back up your personal content. Nero BackItUp 4 incorporates scheduling, backup sets and encryption of your files with password control. Also the drive includes store thousands of photos, videos, and MP3 and 3-Year Limited Warranty.

The new Apple iPod Shuffle 3G is not bad as a player, but looking it it’s hard to recognize that could be an Apple product. All you see on its back is a gun-metal oblong, very similar with a USB key. All you find apart from the metal clip is a three-way switch and a 3.5mm input. There’s no display but Apple has added VoiceOver, its new synthesized-speech feature that tells you what song is playing, who singing it or which playlists you have. The player support MP3, WAV, AAC, AIF.

The new music player is very small and thin, perfect for the summer time and has memory capacity to 4GB (about 1,000 songs). The Apple iPod Shuffle 3G is available for $79 in silver or dark gray. Be careful because the new one is so small that it’s only a matter of time before your lose it.

The new Canon Rebel T1i D.S.L.R. is the first Rebel camera with high-definition video and with its price $800 (body only) is now the cheapest way to get HD-video capabilities in a D.S.L.R. camera. The T1i is 15.1-megapixel and can record high-definition video at full 1080p resolution at 20 frames per second. The Rebel T1i has the same image sensor and imaging processor as the more expensive Canon 50D. The T1i also features creative auto mode which makes available for use setting like exposure, compensation, aperture and shutter speed. The Rebel T1i, which will be available in May will beat this spring of the entry-level D.S.L.R.

With this rich 14-bit gradation, the Rebel T1i offers RAW images of the highest quality that can be processed with Canon’s Digital Photo Professional software. Even JPEG files, which are always finished at 8-bits per channel, use the full 14-bit conversion initially to generate the best possible color and tonal detail.

Specifications:

Type: Digital, single-lens reflex, AF/AE camera; SD memory card, SDHC memory card; 22.3mm x 14.9mm (APS-C size); Canon EF lenses including EF-S lenses (35mm-equivalent focal length is approx. 1.6x the lens focal length; Canon EF mount

Image Sensor: High-sensitivity, high-resolution, large single-plate CMOS sensor; Effective pixels: Approx. 15.10 megapixels; Total pixels: Approx. 15.50 megapixels; 3:2 (Horizontal: Vertical); RGB primary color filters; Fixed position in front of the CMOS sensor;

The Asus Eee Top ET1602 is a touch screen PC in a very friendly package. The Eee Top costs $599 and is the latest one that aims to be family’s digital content hub. Unlike any other TouchSmart PC, the Eee Top is petit enough to put it the kitchen, cabinet or office and cheap enough that you won’t worry about the occasions. The Eee Top has a 16.5-inch LCD, a Linux-based touch-screen interface and Windows XP.

Inside the Eee Top customers will find the familiar components: a 1.6GHz Intel Atom processor, a gigabyte of memory and a 160-gigabyte hard drive. Eee Top also features an integrated Web camera for videos or videos calls using Skype. The Eee Top also can pull double duty as an LCD photo frame. The 9.5-pound PC has a built-in handle that makes it easy to carry from room to room.

MiFi is a portable wireless router with GPS ability, file storage and Linux -based operating system that can host software applications like an e-mail. The manufacturer of MiFi is Novatel. The company is calling its technology an ”Intelligent Mobile Hotspot”. MiFi represent a new category of mobile broadband that gives users put their world of content, services and connectivity in one pocket.

Including an internal battery providing four hours standby and up to four hours of active use on a single charge, the MiFi product enables user to access high-speed internet from anywhere. Novatel’s MiFi produvr offers a unique solution to secure, control and manage wireless connections. The MiFi configurations support applications such as VPN, automatic syncing of email and management capabilities for the IT manager. MiFi will continue to develop in order to support applications and services of individual lifestyle. The device is also compatible with Windows XP and Vista and with Mac OSX 10.3.9 or higher.

ThumbTack is a mini-microphone for the iPod Nano 4G or Touch 2G. It is created by SwitchEasy, a manufacturer of iPod accessories. The device costs $13 and plugging it into the iPod’s headphone jack immediately brings up a voice recording application, which is integrated into every iPod.The system can record audio at MP3 quality directly to the free space on the iPod.

The ThumbTack comes in red, white and black and also support the third-party audio recording applications available on the iTunes App Store.

The new Motorola evokes the iPhone. The Motorola Evoke model is a quad-band phone with a 2-megapixel camera, a side-out dial-pad and a touchscreen QWERTY keyboard. The phone can take an 8GB Micro SD and also offers a built-in memory of 265MB. There are two nice features, stereo Bluetooth and GPS, and one not very nice omission - no WiFi.

But using Evoke gives you some advantages such as snap pictures and record video. The Fast Web connectivity gives you easily publish photos and clips taken with Evoke onto your favorite blogs and sharing sites such as Picasa™^1,3. Touch the screen for instant access to a full HTML browser¹ and use quick-start widgets to easily bring up popular sites such as MySpace and YouTube™^1,3. Built-in integration with MySpace also lets you keep close tabs on friends and post instant updates to your profile in one easy step.

Elegato Systems is a maker of TV software for Macs and today has created the EyeTv Hybrid, which automatically turns your Mac into the world’s most affordable flat-screen HDTV. The EyeTV Hybrid is an HDTV tuner stick that can accept unencrypted digital and analog TV (both standard and high-definition), as well as FM radio. The Hybrid has EyeTV 3 software so that a Mac can also be used as a digital video recorder. One year of free program data, via TV Guide’s online service, is included. (It costs $20 a year after that.) You can also use iTunes to sync TV shows and movies with an iPod, iPhone or Apple TV.

The Hybrid supports closed captioning and Dolby Digital sound and comes with a U.S.B. extension cable and remote. The Elgato EyeTV Hybrid can be purchased online now for $150.

The new Sony Cyber-shot HX1 has several features that might even appeal to semiprofessionals. The camera will be available next month for $500, and takes up to 10 nine-megapixel pictures a second and can take video at 1080p resolution. It also include a large 20X optical zoom lens and a three-inch LCD. To improve shooting time, the HX1 has a mechanical shutter like those found in digital single-lens reflex cameras.

The camera makes vacation photos with a 224-degree panoramic stitching feature that lets you take wide semicircular horizon shots. It has motion reduction and antishake technology, as well as a smart composing feature that keeps everything in focus even when you zoom in on distant subjects. The lens has focal lengths equivalent to 28 to 560 millimeters, and multiple scene settings, including red-eye reduction and face detection.

The new Samsung HZ15W is a new version of the company’s HZ10W digital camera. The HZ15W has a 24-millimeter ultra-wide-angle Schneider lens with an evoking 10x optical zoom, which is accompanied perfectly by the camera’s optical and digital image stabilization. You can also recording high-definition video and switch the camera directly to an HDTV, sans cradle.

The 12-megapixel HZ15W also features a three-inch LCD screen and offers both manual and automatic shooting modes so you can play around with the shutter speed, aperture and exposure.

The HZ15W, priced at $330, is available now

Dell presents its thin-luxury-branded MacBook Air competition. The 0.65-inch-tick Adamo notebook has been created with a 13.4 - inch, 16:9 high-definition display that features an integrated 1.3 megapixel Web camera and Bluetooth 2.1.

For $2,000 the Admire model will get you two gigabytes and 800 megahertz of DDR3 dual-channel memory and a 1.2 -gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. For $2,700, the Desire model has four gigabytes and 800 megahertz of DDR3 dual-channel memory, a 1.4-gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and mobile broadband. To maximize battery life, notebook computer processors are often designed to save more energy and run cooler than desktop processors. The drawback is slower performance, but more memory can help, which it won’t consume energy or radiate heat.

The keyboard itself is a big change from the typical Dell laptop keyboard, which has always had tall, tapered keys. Here the keys are flat, closely spaced with similar style to what you might find on a MacBook or Sony Vaio. The metal touch pad is very good; sometimes using nontraditional surfaces on a touch pad can add uncomfortable friction and finger drag, but that is not the case here. The battery icon in the system tray claims more than 3 hours of battery life on a full charge at the default power settings.

Dell Adamo is your new thin friend, bringing colors and comfort in your everyday lifestyle!

The HP Firebird 803 desktop with VoodooDNA brings some of the high-end system’s modular design elements down to a more refined scale. It also has a remarkable power efficiency and strog performance of its price. The Firebird 803 will exceed your expectations for an upper midrange gaming PC. The Firebird include a unique, accordion-style chassis with the main body supported by a cantilevered base. The design allows airflow to the inside of the system by giving air to come up from the bottom.

The memory and the hard drive are both easily accesable (although you only get two slots for each), but instead of even a single 1X PCI Express, the motherboard presents you a pair reflective metal blocks, each connecting with its own liquid cooling tube. These blocks are in fact the Firebird’s graphics cards.

The good: Unique, polished case design, easily accessible interior, solid performance, strong feature assortment.

The bad: No expansion card upgrade path, chokes on more demanding games at higher resolutions, no 5.1 analog audio outputs.

The line: HP’s Firebird 803 has the influence of its Voodoo PC acquisition to the mainstream with a compelling design, admirable power efficiency, and strong bang-for-the-buck. What it lacks is any sort of graphics upgrade path. For some, the limited upgradeability kills the deal. For those still interested, this PC offers a complete gaming PC with conversation-piece design.

Specifications: Processor: Intel (2.83 GHz) ; RAM installed: 4 GB ; Hard drive: 320 GB ; Motherboard: Nvidia MCP7A ; Graphics: (2) 512MB Nvidia GeForce 9800S graphics cards.

Price range: $2,099.99

This stylish mouse is a perfect friend and takes little desk space. The Trackball Mouse offer a unique and highly accurate scrolling mechanism. The ball is made of heavy red plastic and the base has four buttons- left and right click, with two buttons for media and on-screen viewing control.

The Trackball is compatible with Windows PCs and Macs. But the media functions are fairly limited. For example turning on the media feature on a Mac computer offers some basic control over the tracks playing in iTunes. On the other hand the pointing system is intuitive and fun for those who may have troubles in using a standard mouse.

The Trackball Mouse has a rugged U.S.B. cable clad in nylon fabric. The mouse costs $129 online and in stores.

The LiveSpeakR is a widjet that provides a needed sound boast to the iPhone and iPod Touch. The design of the LiveSpeakR is visually stunning, including bold style inspired by modern art. The LiveSpeakR has highly innovative set of features. His system is ultra-portable and connects to a media player using a specially made 4-in-1 ”Super” cradle that can work and protect the iPhone.

For instance when the iPhone recieves an incoming phone call, the music is automatically lowered and the LiveSpeakR acts as a speakerphone enhancement, routing the call audio through the speakers and allowing convenient call capability.

Features: ultra-portable; high quality speakers that are shielded against RF interference; speakers that rotate with your phone/iPod; speakerphone enhancement; long lasting USB rechargeable Li-Ion battery.

LiveSpeakR is Compatible With: iPod Classic; iPhone original; iPhone 3G; iPod Touch; iPod Touch 2nd Generation.

Included in the package: Reusable and stylish Portable Travel Box; 4-in-1 ”Super” Cradle; USB Cahrging Cable; USB-2-AC Wall Charger.

Price range: $129.99-$99.99

Today Canon presented a new line of compact photo printers: the Selphy CP780. The colorful printer includes high image quality and faster print speeds than previous models. The CP780 is ideal for families and their children, who wants to share their lovely moments with each other. The images are with really good quality due to the Portrait Image Optimize feature. The Face Detection brightness correction and color cast correction have been vastly improved. A 4 x 6-inch print can now be completed in approximately 47 seconds.

Designed in a very high standard, the Selphy CP780 also includes a 2.5-inch LCD screen, card slots and a USB cord. The printer is available in three different color variations, silver, blue, and pink and carries and estimated retail price of $99.99.

The Canon D10 Digital Camera is a first of its kind for Canon and comes with a 12.1- Megapixel resolution and 3x Optically Stabilized Zoom lens. The uniquely styled camera is amazing for capturing high-resolution images and off-camera editing in water. The Canon PowerShot D10 Digital Camera can withstand depths up-to-333-feet deep, is freeze proof from 14 degrees Fahrenheit and shockproof up-to-your feet.

Accessories: The Canon D10 also features a customized strap, cool face plates and a carabineer hook (attached to a strap). The waterproof camera will be available in early May for a retail price of $329.99.

Today millions of cellphones have been produced with toxic chemicals and many end up in landfills. But the new Motorola W233 Renew is part of the environment, one simple eco cellphone. The Renew is billed by the company as a carbon-neutral cellphone. Other environmental efforts are printing the Renew’s packaging on 100 percent recycled paper and providing a prepaid shipping envelope so that users can recycle their old phones.

The Eco Renew also offers 9 hours of talk time on a single charge and up to 2 gigabytes of optional removable memory. The phone is available in T-Mobile for $10 and with a two-year service contract.

The P1 is a very good friend with its six-ounce weight and 640-by-480- pixel resolution. P1 also has one gigabyte of memory, microSD slot and an onboard media player. That means that the mini projector P1 can decode most media formats and play them straight from the projector.

Our friend also features a built-in speaker, 1,000-to-1 contrast ratio and 3.5-milimeter headphone jack. The battery lasts 45 to 60 minutes. The P1 Pico Projector is available from the AAXA company’s online store for $260.

Samsung has finally delivered their brand new Blue Earth phone. Blue Earth is a gorgeous green touch phone that has a full solar panel on its back which can generate enough power to charge the phone. And yes - the gadget is still small enough to fit in your pocket!

The body of the phone is made out of recycled water bottles and has no brominated flame retardants, beryllium and phthalates - all incredibly toxic substances. It also features a pedometer, and CO2 emissions calculator.

The Panasonic Touchbook 19 shown here is a bit thick than an usual touch book, but can last up to 10 hours on a single charge (a 40 percent improvement over previous models) and come with a new security feature called concealed mode that shuts off the machine’s lights when pushed.

The screen is tweaked to better handle varying visibility conditions using Panasonic’s circular polarization technology. Also added is an Intel Centrino 2 processor with vPro technology, and the option for a 32-gigabyte solid-state drive.

Other specifications include a 13.3-inch display and 6-gigabyte L2 cache for the Toughbook 30 and a 10.4-inch display with a 3-megabyte L2 cache for the Toughbook 19. The upgraded Toughbook 30 ($3,650) and the Toughbook 19 ($3,750) are both available now.