Top 10 Gadgets of this year 2006, Series: 2
Here I am continuing the series of my previous Top 10 gadgets of this year 2006.
5 Sony PlayStation 3: Sony has introduced its seventh generation video game and third in the PlayStation series, PS3. PS3 has 20 GB internal hard drive with an internal 60 GB Serial ATA 2.5" hard drive, IEEE 802.11b/g Wi-Fi connectivity and multiple flash memory card readers. The hard drive of PS3 is upgradeable by using the standard Serial ATA (SATA) interface.
6 Nintendo Wii: Nintendo has launched Nitendo Wii to give competition to Microsoft's Xbox and Sony's PS3. Nintendo Wiihas feature of wireless controller named Wii Remote, which can be used as a handheld pointing device and can detect motion and rotation in three dimensions.
7 BlackBerry Pearl: The BlackBerry Pearl has a pearl like trackball at its center. BlackBerry Pearl allows user to send and receive messages and e-mail. BlackBerry Pearl 8100 smartphone is one of the world's smallest smart phone and it has all features of BlackBerry. It has 1.3 megapixel digital camera, multimedia capabilities and most important expandable memory. The BlackBerry Pearl provides quad band network support on 850/900/1800/1900 MHz GSM/GPRS and EDGE networks to allow for international roaming between North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
8 Moto Q: Motorola has launched thin and flat smartphone Motorola Q this year. Moto Q has QWERTY keyboard and supports terrific photo and video capabilities with its 6x digital zoom camera. The Q also uses Windows Media Player Mobile as a player.
9 Canon DC40: Canon DC40, digital handicam offers a modest 10X zoom lens and provides a wide f/1.8-to-f/3.0 aperture and can accept 37mm add-on lenses. DC 40 can fit 20 minutes of the highest-quality video on a single-sided DVD. It supports 3-inch DVD-R and DVD-RW discs and includes Roxio MyDVD in the box.
10 Sony Vaio X505: Sony has launched the slimmest and lightest ultra portable notebook PC and it features with 10.4inch XGA screen, 1.1 GHz Intel ultra low voltage Pentium M processor, a 20GB hard disk and 512MB RAM. Also included is 802.11/g wireless connectivity via a PC card, a multi-format flash storage card adapter and a DVD rewriter.
Via: Times of India
