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Gadgets For The Beach

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product_image.phpIt’s time to hit the beach! I bet that many of you have been waiting for this time for the first half of the year. Some of the best times of my life have been spent at the beach, and I have to say that in addition to the surf and the sand, I love bringing cool gadgets to play with. If you are the same, you’d love to get your hands on these gadgets.

Flip Plus Waterproof Case
There are waterproof cases for most any kind of gadget these days. But if you want to take videos and stills without worrying about ruining your camera, I suggest that you get a Flip. It has been around for quite some time and it is quite cheap. Then get a waterproof case for it and you’re all set!

Atlantic Ego Ice Waterproof iPod Dock
What’s a beach party without music? Of course, you wouldn’t want your iPod to get ruined because of the water. With this waterproof iPod dock, you can play music even if you’re in the middle of the pool. You can use this dock with any kind of iPod, and it uses simple AA batteries!

Panasonic Toughbook
Okay, this one may not be as easy to get as the first two. It is the toughest laptop out there, no doubt about it, but it will also set you back almost $2000, even more. Still, if you have the cash to spare, this is the laptop to bring to the beach – or practically anywhere!

Any other gadgets you’d like to bring with you?

Of Airports and Laptops

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The battle has long been raging since that fateful day when security became the scourge of all travelers may it be for business or pleasure. Business travelers hate to have to go through the good ole’ laptop bag they just spent half an hour packing cramming all those cables, power adapters, gadgets and gizmos into one neat package only to take them out once again as they go through airport security tangling the mess into something resembling a jungle landscape. Not anymore, according to the Washington Post with luggage manufacturers taking up the call talking to airport security experts on advice to come up with airport security friendly baggage that has all the gadgets and gizmos lined up neatly you won’t have to take them out of their short-lived places in your laptop bag.
Laptops and most other electronic gadgets and gizmos have to go through security equipment such as x-ray machines that have been finding it hard to see through all the cluttered wires and stuff crammed into laptop bags airport authorities had no choice but to require people to take them out so they can be scanned properly. Why all the fuss, laptops are sizable enough to conceal explosives and other banned electronic goods onto airplane. Imagine a laptop battery made out of C-4 plastic explosive with all the required electronics and control stuff built into a simulated battery (which is one of the most likely suspect part of a laptop) now that would cause quite a bang.
There never seems to be any cease to the amount of delays that we all have to go through each and every time we have to get onto a plane that is complicated more by the several gadgets and gizmos we lug around in our bags that may soon even need to have to be inspected electronically for contraband (pirated music and other copyrighted stuff), thank GOD that still has to go through deliberations or we may have to contend with a few more hours of delay as they not only scan through you, your luggage and other effects but check each and every gadget or gizmos for copyright violations

Do You Really Need High Mega Pixel Digital Cameras?

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With the enormous amount of digital cameras available today, the rant has been for cameras that are able to provide the best mega pixel quality for every shot taken by trigger happy photo shooters today. Cameras in the market as distributed by Canon, Sony and Olympus are trying to outdo one another with the various features and image quality that their contraptions have to offer.

While the price disparities leaves much to discuss about, mega pixels have become the varying point for most users, something that has been seen as a point of preference by most potential digital camera buyers. It is normal to note that while word of mouth higher mega pixels would be heard, these people do not really know why the need for higher pixels would be ideal other than best image quality output.

Even 3.2 mega pixel cameras would do, it’s just that prices have varied. Just like technology today, such has become something worth the barter since higher mega pixel cameras offered at good prices will be grabbed at every opportunity given. But if a choice was to be made, especially with pricing in tow, chances are people will prefer the lower one, since outside that of being cheaper, a digital camera still serves the same way of taking pictures, its main purpose overall.