Hawt Gadgets

An external hard drive is a great way to take important information with you. These portable drives are easy to carry and easy to use. Seagate’s latest line offers half a terabyte of storage. You can back up your entire desktop computer and bring it with you wherever you go.

The Seagate FreeAgent Go is available as a 500 gigabyte unit. It connects via a USB 2.0 interface, which allows almost any computer to access the portable drive. Included is easy-to-use software that keeps your information safe with automatic data backup and encryption of your important files and folders. Seagate offers an impressive 5-year warranty on the FreeAgent Go.

With compact dimensions of 0.49 x 3.15 x 5.12 inches and weighing a light 5.64 ouncez, the Seagate FreeAgent Go is the ultimate portable storage solution. It offers big capacity in a small elegant design that is ideal for both personal and business settings. Its sleek metal finish ensures durability for ultimate scratch protection. Confidently carry all your data securely and in style with the FreeAgent Go’s many available colors.

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The Garmin nüvi 360 is a portable GPS unit. This is one of the lowest priced units where you can get portability, 2D and 3D maps, voice directions, Bluetooth capability, and optional traffic update capabilities.

At 3.87 x 2.91 x 0.87 inches and 5.1 ounces, the Garmin nüvi 360 is highly portable. The 2.8 X 2.1 inch touch-screen is large enough to clearly display map information. Garmin’s GPS devices come preloaded with the latest maps and over 6 million points of interest. The unit has built-in Bluetooth, letting it act as a hands-free unit when paired with a Bluetooth enabled cellphone.

Garmin nüvi 360 GPS Navigator is a compact and versatile unit. It can also function as an MP3 player, an audiobook player, a JPEG picture viewer, a world clock with time zones, a currency converter, and more. The unit’s USB port can be used for updating or loading new data. You can also add data using the unit’s SD memory card expansion slot.

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The third-generation Shuffle is half the size of the previous model. This iPod is tiny, about the size of a AA battery. It is small, yet it has 4 GB capacity which can store about 1,000 songs.

Compact and sleek is the design of Apple’s new Shuffle. There are no controls on the actual unit, as the Shuffle includes new earphones that act as the remote. With the press of a button you can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists and now hear information.

Thanks to new “VoiceOver” technology, the Shuffle has the ability to speak the song title, artist, and playlist names. The Shuffle also has an extended battery life of 10 hours. It comes with a short USB cable used for syncing and charging.

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A netbook is an ultra portable computer. Mini-laptops, as they are also marketed as, are specifiacally designed to have lower performance capabilities than a laptop computer. The upside is lower power consumption, low weight, and significantly lower cost. A netbook specializes in mobility and the Web.

The latest model in ASUS’s landmark Eee PC line features offers even more options for users. It is powered by a 1.66 Ghz Intel Atom N280 processor for better performance at only 2.5 watts of power. That low power usage is part of the reason the battery will last 9.5 hours. The built in high speed 802.11n Wi-Fi connectivity and exclusive 10 GB of file-encrypted Eee Online Storage makes it ideal for traveling.

The Eee PC 1000HE is built using sturdy plastic that provides rigidity and strength. The 10-inch display is part of its 3.2 pound lightweight chassis. It has 3 USB ports, a VGA port, 2 Audio input/output ports, 1 RJ-45 port, and an SD card slot.

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This 40-Inch 1080p LCD HDTV is the perfect TV for all your entertainment needs. This television features some of the greatest technologies and it is encased in a stylish frame.

With this LCD TV you get a more realistic, sharper picture quality thanks to its 30,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio. It has great image display due to the new 5-millisecond pixel response time. Its response time is one of the quickest on the market. You will be amazed when  watching high speed action as this HDTV keeps up with every move on the screen without blurring.

Samsung’s LN40A550 offers 1080p resolution out of all HD inputs. Its multi-connectivity makes it easy to connect electronic devices to it. Readily accessible are 3 HDMI, 2 component video, 1 composite input, S-Video, PC input, and a Wiselink (USB 2.0) connection.

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The Canon PowerShot SD880 IS has a lot of features: 10-megapixel resolution, 4X wide angle zoom, optical image stabilization, face detection (which recognizes faces in the frame and optimizes the autofocus accordingly) and a proportionally large 3.0-inch LCD screen.

Like many other Canon cameras, the PowerShot SD880 IS has an easy to hold ergonomic shape. Its dimensions are 3.69 x 2.24 x 0.93 inches and its weight is approximately 5.47 ounces. The camera has a typical control layout. The key buttons such as the on/off, zoom, and shutter switch sit on top. The print/share, playback, function, menu and display buttons are on the back. A large control dial wheel surrounds the function button.

The functions are all well placed in regard to ease of access. All you have to do is turn to the setting that best matches the scene you’re viewing through the lens to capture the perfect image. The PowerShot SD880 IS digital camera also has advanced auto presets so point-and-shoot is always available.

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