From smartphones to handheld gadgets, the tech tools listed here enhance productivity for mobile professionals
These tools help make you more productive at performing your job remotely. Some of these items can used in unexpected ways like the e-book reader with access to 1000’s of electronic books or the The new waterproof SANYO Xacti E1 camcorder that you can use on land and underwater!
3 Skypephone
You don’t need a computer to make free calls anymore. Use 3 Skypephone instead. It’s a stylish mobile phone that calls, texts and takes pictures like you’d expect it to – but wait, there’s more – you can also use it to call and instant message your friends, free, wherever they are in the world.
* Everything you’d expect from a mobile.
* Sign into Skype and make free calls to anyone else on Skype.
* Send free instant messages on Skype too.
* No computer necessary.
3 Skypehone Skype button - Walk and talk
Use Skype while you’re walking to work, sitting in the park or queuing for football tickets. Free yourself from your computer with 3 Skypephone.
Skype at the touch of a button. Just press the big Skype button to start making free calls and send instant messages on Skype. Simple.
The 3 Skypehone is Cool, Sleek, stylish, shiny and works most places
With 3G, a 2-megapixel camera, mp3 player, mobile TV and internet, 3 Skypephone keeps you occupied even when you run out of things to say.
If your friends and family have a 3 Skypephone (in a country where it’s available), you can all speak mobile-to-mobile on Skype for free. So go on, buy your best friend a phone and you can talk and chat to your heart’s content.
Olympus VN-960PC 128 MB Digital Voice Recorder with PC Lin
No matter where you are, the VN-960PC is a reliable companion. It ensures your notes and ideas won’t be lost forever.
A fast USB connection allows for hassle-free downloading of files to a PC for archiving or further processing.
Its handy scheduler function with alarm facility also helps you manage your time more effectively.
Waterproof SANYO Xacti E1 camcorder
This digital voice recorder provides capacity for more than 16 hours of recordings and stores up to 100 files in each of its four folders for easy organization. Price around $60
The new waterproof SANYO Xacti E1 camcorder!
The new waterproof SANYO Xacti E1 captures stunning digital video and beautiful 6MP photos…on land and underwater!
* Waterproof digital camcorder
* 6 Megapixel still photos
* 5x Optical zoom
* 2.5-Inch LCD display
* Up to 1hr. 20min. digital video per 1GB memory card
Practically four cameras in one, the Xacti E1 will become your camera for every picture and every video, everywhere! Take still photos and video above water as well as still photos and video underwater.
Amazing image quality is what you’ll get with the Xacti E1. Its advanced 6.37-megapixel CCD image sensor allows you to capture stunning still images and high-quality digital videos with full-range stereo sound (even underwater!)
Easily share your photos and video. The Xacti E1 incorporates the highly advanced AVC/H.264 video compression, giving you better video quality with a reduced file sizes.
Portable GPS Units Get You Back On Track
Many popular sports are popular because they have an element of danger because they are set out in a place where you can get lost. With boating, you can potentially get lost in the sea. With rock climbing or mountaineering, you can get lost very easily on a mountainside or in the wilderness. You can also get lost in nature and lost in direction while hiking, camping, biking, snowmobiling, skydiving, four wheel driving or (if you’re like me) shopping. Portable GPS units can get you back on track and back to safer ground.
Although it might seem like cheating, a portable GPS can get you out of very dangerous situations and just mere frustrating ones. GPS technology started publicized around the first Gulf War, when it served alongside soldiers in the Army, Navy and Air Force. GPS systems were soon installed in commercial aircraft and boats. Gradually, they have been getting smaller and more accessible to the general public.
The basic advantage of portable GPS devices is that they keep you from getting lost. That might not seem like much at first, but if you’re out on a boat and a storm kicks up – or even if you’re on the highway and a detour happens and suddenly you’re in a neighborhood where you know you can’t stop and ask for directions – finding out where you are and where you need to go to get home is nothing short of a miracle.
Star Trek heralded some of the astounding advances that we take for granted today, but definitely in the late 1960’s, the ideas seemed like science fiction. Laser beams, computer discs, the fall of Communism – all seemed totally far-fetched. But one of the devices was a sort of portable GPS in their personal communicators. It constantly sent out a signal that let the Enterprise know where that person was – unless they were somehow separated from their communicator.
Sony Reader - The Reader Digital Book: An Innovative Reading Experience
The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to experience reading. It boasts an impressive 6-inch display1 utilizing breakthrough e Ink® technology that’s almost paper-like, making it easy to read even in bright sunshine. In addition, the screen allows for high contrast and high resolution, with a near 180° viewing angle. The text can also be magnified for readers with impaired vision.
It’s Ultra Portable and is a perfect travel companion, the Reader Digital Book offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read whenever you want. More compact than many paperbacks, it weighs just nine ounces7 (without cover), is only half an inch thin8 and holds up to 160 eBooks4. You can easily hold it in one hand, and with its rechargeable battery you can turn up to 7,500 continuous pages on a single charge2. This baby hold 160 Books at a Time. Price around $350.
NeatReceipts Scanalizer
NEAT Receipts develops scanning and software solutions that help you organize your paper and simplify your life.
Scan, analyze and organize your receipts, bills, business cards and more - then store everything in a database on your PC. Say goodbye to clutter and hello to an organized, digital life. Price around $230
PremiereAnywhere
Introducing the freedom to turn any fax machine into your own personal printer. Print from your laptop, desktop, BlackBerry™ or Treo SmartPhone - instantly. And, now you can also send and receive faxes right from your computer by adding a toll free incoming fax number.ces. Price around $230.
T-Mobile Dash
From T-Mobile, this smartphone uses the Windows mobile operating system.
It features a large color screen, a QWERTY keyboard, web browsing, IM, Outlook, 1.3 megapixel camera, and Windows media for music and video.
It connects to the Internet via GPRS/EDGE and Wi-Fi, and is quad-band for global phone usage. You can get work done from anywhere — and in style. Price around $330
Voyager II Talking Translator
Type in a word and the Lingo Voyager II says it out loud in any of 12 languages. An invaluable travel asset, the translator can also speak 27, 000 phrases commonly heard around the world.
The Lingo Voyager II Talking Translator does the talking for you - in 12 languages! An invaluable tool for world travelers, this compact interpreter speaks AND displays in writing over 240,000 words and 27,000 helpful phrases in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hebrew, and Greek.
Includes a currency and metric converter, world time clock with alarm, voice/memo recorder, calculator, and 32K memory phone book, as well as six games. Comes with earphones, padded carrying case, batteries (2 AAA), and excellent instructions. (6 x 3¼ x ½”; 8 oz) Price around $200
MagneticTime software
This computer program converts any Word document or Outlook email into MP3 files that are read back to you by an electronic voice.
The files are then sent to your iPod, smartphone, or MP3 player. You can listen to memos and other messages during your commute and turn wasteful downtime into a productive part of your day. Price around $3
Toughbook
This laptop is from the Panasonic line of rugged machines that are resistant to shock and other kinds of damage. With a metal case and anti-shock hard drive it features a variety of wireless capabilities for mobile computing.
Here’s it’s SPECS: Wireless. Tireless. Tough. Ideal for mobile executives; the high-performance, ultra-powerful Toughbook 73 delivers maximum unwired freedom wherever business takes you. Its versatile combo drive and large outdoor-readable touchscreen LCD let you work seamlessly in any location and make it perfect for delivering high-impact multimedia presentations. Best of all, it’s built to withstand the rigors of travel with optional integrated wireless WAN and industry-leading Toughbook durability.
It’s sleek design and powerful system will help you remain useful when you are away, but still at work. Around $2300.
CyberPad
From Adesso, this electronic tablet integrates the familiarity of pen-on-paper feel. It’s a digital notepad with an electronic inking pen that feels and works as well as a regular pen. It lets you to naturally write as you usually do with a regular pen on paper.
No special papers needed! Utilizing the electromagnetic technology, it lets you put any ordinary letter size or A4 size paper on the pad and use the inking pen to write directly on the paper.
Even if the thickness of papers laid on the pad are 3/4″ thick; your handwritten notes can still be captured and stored in the built-in or optional SD card memory slot of your CyberPad.Organizing your notes from meetings are a snap. Price around $200
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