Techy Chick

Everyone is going vintage these days - we’ve had ppl come to our store asking for if we sell turntables and old records every couple of weeks.  So I thought I should try and look for something we could have at home - I don’t really want anything that is too old with a real needle that one use for the turntable - but i love the retro look for our new home - something that friends and family who visits can go ooos and ahhhhhs.. about it - just like those human growth hormone that i read about the other day.  So someone said to me the other day - she saw this at the Tivoli outlet - and this one sure reminded me of my brother’s first stereo set - that we were so in awe about.  The cheapest I saw at Tivoli’s website was for $150 - so we don’t have to break or rob the bank for it - haha!

I’m sure everyone by now has one but not me.  We just acquired one recently at a really cheap price, therefore, the entire family wanted to try it out.  Me..?? or course i wanted to try .. afterall, i need to get those ugly belly fat taken care of.   The Wii Fit is a very fascinating machine.. and i can see myself.. working on it.. whenever time permits.  I think i am gonna keep it at the store.. and exercise on it.. every hour for 10 mins each time.  Why..?? because the winter is cold here.. and it can be really hard to do any walking.. so a Wii Fit can do simple things like stretching or running on the spot is always an ideal way to go.

For an 8gb, you can now get your dream ipod .. for $199 - not a bad investment at all.  Especially when you can play games..  use it as a pocket computer.. and play music and movie.   Great for a gift.. for that special someone.  Look at the specs on Apple’s website - engraving for free now too.

iPod nano now has a built-in video camera that lets you record fun as it happens. Then share it with friends on the Internet. It’s the video camera that’s small enough to take with you everywhere.

My stone sink has to hold since Sony Corp will have a cheaper version of the PS3 console at a ridiculous cut prices a few days ago. The new slim version of the PS3 will be launched in the first week of September, priced at 299 euros in Europe and $299 in the United States.  Sony’s Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said at the Gamescom video game trade show in Cologne, Germany.  Normally one can get a new PS3 was $400 …  so you do the numbers.  This Christmas i bet this is the machine everyone wants for their kids, boyfriends and even husbands.

While e-book readers have been getting a lot of press over the last year or so, they’ve not been selling particularly well. There are plenty of reasons for that - but the main one is a lack of consumer awareness, coupled with high retail prices. Why pay £250 for an e-book reader when you can pay a fiver for a paperback?

With this brand new Sony Reader Touch Edition, Sony has sought to address these issues by retaining the steep retail price.  This new flagship reader is, as you might have guessed from the title, a touchscreen device. But don’t expect it to deliver the kind of touchscreen experience you’d find on an iPhone, because it’s anything but.

You need to use the supplied stylus, but luckily it’s fairly responsive and you can still use your fingers for touch functions that don’t require accuracy - like turning a page for example.

The interface is pretty similar to that on existing Sony Reader products, with a main menu offering access to your eBooks and new features which include notes/annotations.

You can now use the stylus to annotate the pages of your eBooks, and you can then print these notes off at a later date. While this is a useful function in theory, in practise we deemed it to be fairly hopeless. The screen just isn’t responsive enough - characters you’ve written only appear about a second after you’ve written them.

So when we wrote TechRadar on top of a sample of the first HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy eBook, we were already writing the ‘c’ before the T and the e had appeared on screen. It’s not fun, and it needs improving before it’ll be of real use to students and the like.

There’s also the option to double-tap a word in a book, and the onboard dictionary will pop up to give you a definition. So if you’re having a slow moment and you can’t remember what a car is, the Sony Reader Touch Edition will duly give you an Oxford Dictionary definition.

The six-inch screen is comfortable to read though and the weight has come down too, so it’s not too much of a hassle to carry around.

Remember this hit the bum game.. with a rubber hammer.. that you can find in the game arcade.. many year ago..??  Yes.. as easy as doing colon cleanse reviews , this game is a no brainer.  To hit the bum, give them a good hit on the bum with the rubber hammer provided when they light up. Be quick though! Once a light goes out, the chance to gain a point is lost! There are 3 red lights on the surface of the game. Each lights represents how many lives you have. To start, you have 3 lives. For every two misses, a life is lost. For every life that is lost, a red light will go out. When all lives are lost (no red lights illuminated), the game is over. The LED screen keeps track of your scores. Price : US$29.

Now that’s what i call innovative and lots of imagination here.  But for any gamer.. they would love something like that in their computer room.. or even the recreation room.  Now I wanna know how i can incorporate this into my computer room.. or even the basement.. to make it look cool . .and how to i keep things from sliding down..?  i don’t want to break my bottles of Pronexin in the meantime eh.

The BenQ’s Joybee GP1 pocket projector is so cute and small, you can’t resist it. For those who are interested in owning one.. you can now pre-order them.. i heard.. and at $499.  It has a LED based PI with a USB reader. DLP projection system kicking out an 858 x 600 resolution, 100 ANSI lumens, a 2,000:1 contrast ratio, a built-in 2-watt speaker and VGA / component / composite inputs.  I think it isn’t expensive. . when you think of how convenient it is .. when you are traveling on business.. and ready to give your biggest sales pitch of the year to your most important customer.  Imagine whipping this tiniest projector ever.. and showing off .. how high tech you are.. to your potential client.  I bet you will seal the deal in no time.

When you have a kid like i do and the spouse owns a computer/game store, you kinda need to know your stuff - well a wee bit.  But she was playing Trackmania for hours.. i bet if she was a teenager, she would need acne treatments for the lack of sleeping.

Ok.. about this game, it’s about racing.. and you race to get in first. here is no doubt that the Trackmania formula is a successful one–the game has already seen four versions come out on the PC, all of which have been quite enjoyable. They aren’t for everyone, as they definitely are not a sim-racer (like Gran Turismo) and they can be frustrating as you often have to run tracks over and over again to perfect them, but for some gamers they are just about as fun as racing games get. Because you are primarily racing against yourself you can keep racing tracks in order to shave off a few hundredths of a second or, in the case of the DS version, there is an added incentive: earning coppers. Using these coppers you can unlock new tracks, blocks (parts for building custom parts), and skins for your cars. You’ll also have to beat easier tracks in order to gain access to more difficult ones. The buying is limited to game elements though–you can’t buy new cars, improved suspensions, or anything like that.