Tech 2 Wear
Tags: gadgets | MPIO | Pioneer | portable | Sony | wearable
| 1> MPIO FL 300 The world's smallest & lightest necklace-type MP3 player. It has 3 capacities: 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, and can record 8 hours of voice or music, and has alarm clock and USB storage functions [$219-$299]
| 2> Mobile Bluetooth Headset, Effective up to 10 metres for 8 hours talk & more than 3 weeks standby time. Noise-canceling microphone makes clear calls even with high background noise. With a flexible soft touch wrap-around design, it fits comfortably and weighs less than 1 ounce. [$110] from Logitech
| 3> The N900 is a card-shaped mobile phone (70g/10mm), supports GSM/ GPRS, is equipped with a 1.8" TFT colour display, a digital camera (300,000 pixels), 40-polyphonic ring tones, and camera functions including a mobile light, an earphone and a mike. [$1,174] from NEC
| 4> Kayoko Tanaka of Japanese electronics maker Pioneer wears a jacket which features an electronic luminescence display. [expect launch in 2005]
| 5> Fossil Wrist PDA stores up to 1,100 contacts, 800 appointments, 5,000 to-do items and 350 memos. Features include customized watch faces, navigation of the clock's user interface through drop down menus and view screen options, a backlight, and a joystick as the main input method. [$245]
| 6> Less than 4 inches long, Sony's sophisticated dsc-U10 Cyber-shot U fits comfortably in the palm of your hand. It has 1.3-megapixel resolution and a four-mode flash, and it even shoots MPEG video (without sound) [$335] |