A selection of this week's new gadgets reviewed
Film 2 SD Negative Scanner
Price:€137.50 (plus €15 postage and packing) Buy:firebox.com
There are bound to be some old negatives lying around your house at home and squinting through them before bringing them down to a bemused 17-year-old in a photo studio could be a little tedious. Why not make it easy with this negative scanner? Once you’ve previewed and scanned your negatives and slides they can be tranferred on to the supplied SD card. Then simply pop the card into your mobile phone, digital photo frame or card reader.
And you can drag everything into your PC or Mac via USB.
Compaq Mini 700PC
Price:€399 Buy:PC World, The Laptop Shop
Netbooks are a great solution for travelling, especially if you’ve tried opening a laptop on ecomony class recently. This comes with a built-in webcam and microphone, WLan, Bluetooth and optional WWan. Weighing 1.1kg and under 25mm thin, the Compaq Mini 700 is very portable and perfect for surfing the web and working in a tight space.
Sega Megadrive Handheld System
Price:€32 Buy:xploder.net
People of a certain age will remember the Sega Mega Drive fondly. This is a hand-held Mega Drive, complete with 20 classic Mega Drive games, guaranteed to bring out your nostalgic side.
Available titles included include Sonic Knuckles, Shinobi 3and Return Of The Ninja. It even comes with a cable that lets you connect it to your television set.
Samsung Pixon
Price:from €279 (contract with O2)
Buy:www.o2.ie
The Samsung Pixon has the sort of camera ability that looks to put point-and-shoot digital cameras to the sword, with eight megapixels.
Not only does it look like an actual camera, the Samsung Pixon also takes pictures like one, with its x16 digital zoom, auto-focus, fast-shutter, face detection and geo-tagging. This is the perfect phone for anyone that wants real photography ability from a handset.