Features

• High-clarity, full-stereo sound
• Power light and LED indicator
• Compact cable management
• Operating Range: 10-30 feet (a distance of 10 feet or less will minimize interference and provide the strongest signal)
• Ultralight for portability

Asin: B00008SB1D
Sales Rank: 7323
Subjects:  1. Accessories (Accessory)    2. AMFM Antenna (AM-FM)    3. Accessories (Accesssory)    4. Portable Audio    5. MP3 MP 3 Player   

Editorial Review

Editorial Review

A few years ago, when personal GPSs first became available, every geek from here to Poughkeepsie was enthralled about the possibility of always knowing exactly where on the planet they were. While the Garmin eTrex isn't the most feature-rich GPS out there, it will definitely come in handy if you don't want your next camping trip to end up like a scene from The Blair Witch Project.

The eTrex is sort of a dumbed-down, rugged version of the company's more advanced eMap. Designed specifically for hiking, biking, and camping, the eTrex is one of the easiest-to-use GPS units available. It offers the ability to track up to 12 satellites so you never lose contact with one. The eTrex won't work inside--however, we don't anticipate that you'll get lost inside a building very often.

Among the eTrex's notable features is its ability to calculate your current and average speed. We used the eTrex to determine the distance from work to home, and calculate how fast we were walking. This helped us gauge the average time it should take to get to work. This feature should really come in handy on extended hiking, camping, or cycling trips where planning your average speed and tracking the distance traveled is critical.

&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspMain menu &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspMap page &nbsp&nbspPointer page &nbsp&nbspMark pointer page

Sticking with its theme of simplicity, the eTrex has only five buttons, making it easy to use with just one hand (It's specifically designed for the left hand.) Weighing only 5.3 ounces with the batteries installed, the eTrex is also ultralight, making it an easy addition to a daypack. The eTrex is also waterproof, so a little water shouldn't damage the unit.

The eTrex can hold up to 500 user-created waypoints. And using Garmin's TracBack feature, it's easy to plot a course with up to 10 waypoints and follow it in both directions. --Julian Strate

Pros:

• Easy to use
• Light
• Waterproof

• Batteries only last about 20 hours

Features

• Transfers file, photos, MP3 and more to PC via USB 2.0 port
• Compatible with CompactFlash I and II, SmartMedia, Secure Digital and MMC, Microdrive, MemoryStick® and MagicGate memory stick media
• UPC 722868456200

Asin: B00009K79V
Sales Rank: 12848
Subjects:  1. Memory Card Reader (Readers)   

Features

• Compatible with Windows 98SE, Me, 2000 Professional, XP, or Mac OS 9.1 or later, Mac OS X 10.1.2-10.1.5; 10.2.4 or later
• 250 GB storage capacity
• 7,200 RPM
• FireWire and USB 2.0 interface
• 8 MB buffer

Asin: B0000AZW8M
Sales Rank: 7549
Subjects:  1. Hard Drives (Drive)    2. External    3. Firewire   

Editorial Review

The slim Apex AD-2600 is equipped to serve as a high-end movie source and a flexible music player, delivering premium-quality progressive-scan video images (viewable on high-definition and HD-ready TVs) and decoding the popular MP3 and Windows Media Audio music formats. If you burn pictures from a digital camera to CD-Rs and CD-RWs, you can even use the player for watching slideshows right on a TV. Apex's active full screen function (AFF) helps resize widescreen (16:9 aspect ratio) video images to fill 4:3 aspect-ratio sets.

Whether your living room is currently home to an HDTV or you're merely thinking of "someday," the AD-2600 stands ready to deliver the full potential of DVDs. Progressive scanning, referred to as 480p for the number of horizontal lines that compose the video image, creates a picture using twice the scan lines of a conventional DVD picture, giving you higher resolution and sharper images while eliminating nearly all motion artifacts. In any case, standard composite- and S-video outputs bring compatibility with nearly any television.

Features

• Compatible with Microsoft Windows 98 SE, Me, 2000, and XP
• 30 GB storage lets you bring up to 8,000 WMA songs (80 kbps) or MP3 songs (128 kbps) everywhere you go
• Use AudioSync to synchronize your music on your player with your PC at work, school and home or on the road
• Load a song a second with ultra fast USB 2.0 port, compatible with USB 1.1 too
• Removable, high-capacity Li-ion battery -- up to 14 hrs continuous playback per charge

Asin: B0000DD7P2
Sales Rank: 14440
Subjects:  1. Portable Audio    2. MP3 MP 3 Player    3. Jukebox    4. MP3 Player (MP 3)    5. Gigabyte    6. 10GB    7. 10 GB   

Editorial Review

The irock! 300W wireless music adapter lets you listen to any portable music device over any FM tuner and speaker setup, without a clumsy or constricting cable hookup. It's the perfect way to simply and efficiently listen to MP3s, CDs, minidiscs, and other formats in the comfort of your car or living room. Just plug the irock! 300W into the headphone jack of your portable device, tune your radio to one of four preselected frequencies (88.1, 88.3, 88.5, or 88.7 FM), and crank up your tunes. The irock! 300W's operating range (limited by FCC regulations) is 10 to 30 feet, depending on environmental conditions and the quality of the FM receiver.

Editorial Review

Early Adopters Pick: April 2003 JVC's XV-N50BK is the world's slimmest DVD player.

With its elegant slim-line design and ice-blue illuminated front panel, the XV-N50BK DVD player is not only versatile, but beautiful. Andit handles everything from DVD-Video and standard audio CD to audio CD-R and CD-RW discs, MP3 and WMA CD, DVD-R,DVD+R, DVD+RW, and even CDs filled with JPEG image files so you can watch digital slide shows on television.

JVC's 1-bit P.E.M. D.D. audio converter achieves terrific sonic resolution with a high signal-to-noise ratio. The XV-N50BK has beenoptimized for the high sampling frequency of 192 kHz, providing an extra-wide dynamic range to realize the benefits of high-spec DVDsources. The model's 10-bit, 54 MHz video sampling frequency ensures detailed images and clear, pure colors for DVD movies. And,with seven parameters to adjust, the unit's Video Fine Processor (VFP) provides exceptional versatility in fine-tuning images to personalpreferences. The player provides a choice of either optical or coaxial digital-audio output for routing Dolby Digital or DTS 5.1-channelsurround signals to a compatible audio/video receiver.

Editorial Review