Digital lexicon a light weight to bear
Digital lexicon a light weight to bear Carrying the weight of the world – or least its words – on your shoulders doesn’t have to be a pain. Sharp’s newest electronic dictionary, the PW-E250, weighs about 4 ounces yet contains the full contents of the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary and Thesaurus, the Oxford Pocket Spanish Dictionary, the Oxford Essential Geographical Dictionary and the Oxford Essential Guide for Puzzle Solvers. The $50 device includes a built-in backlight, a zoom key that boosts the font size on the display, an English-Spanish translator and a calculator.
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Twin-tray DVD recorder speeds up copying
Samsung’s twin-tray DVD recorder can help proud parents share DVD copies of their kid’s school play with far-flung relatives. Equipped with two DVD recording trays, the recorder can copy a two-hour disc onto another disc in 20 minutes. An automatic gauge judges the size of the recording and the available space on the disc and then adjusts the recording quality to achieve the best fit. The unit also comes with a timer for recording favorite TV shows. The machine can record onto DVD-RAM, DVD-Recordable (DVD-R) and DVD-Rewritable (DVD-RW) discs. The DVD-TR520 model costs $450.
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Speedy Sony digital camera offers various settings
Sony boosts the odds of snapping a spectacular picture with the debut of a 10.3-megapixel camera. Equipped with a 24mm to 120mm (35mm equivalent) Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T zoom lens, the Cyber-shot DSC-R1 can capture wide-angle shots of landscapes and large gatherings or zoom in to photograph someone in the distance. Using its electronic viewfinder, you can preview exposure, color renderings and other scene conditions on its 2-inch liquid crystal display (LCD). The speedy camera delivers a one-second shot-to-shot time, three-frames-per-second burst shooting and a shutter release time of 7.5 milliseconds. Images can be stored on Memory Stick PRO, CompactFlash and Microdrive media. The camera goes on sale in November for about $1,000.
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Speakerphone makes Net calls using USB
Internet callers can hold up their end of the conversation with Iogear’s USB Speaker Phone. When the device is plugged into a Universal Serial Bus (USB) port on a PC or Mac, the phone can be used to make voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calls. Measuring 2.2 inches by 0.8 inch by 3.2 inches, the 1.5-ounce device ships with a headset jack and doesn’t require any software installation. It costs $60.
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