Gadget reviews
The Indago is a sat nav system with a difference; several features keep it streets ahead of other units on the market. A top-end product aimed at those who want superior build and design quality, it uses Navteq digital mapping, the most accurate software available. It is the only system to use the comprehensive Enigma database – giving advanced audio and visual warnings of UK and European accident problem spots, speed cameras, speed limits and schools, and it also offers over 1,000,000 ‘Points of Interest’ – from cash machines and petrol stations to tourist attractions and shopping centres – so you’ll always know what’s around the corner.
Available now
Around £599.95
Available from: www.indagosatnav.co.uk
With the Electronic Wine Warmer and Chiller, you can get your wine to the perfect temperature within minutes. This natty gadget doesn’t simply warm all reds to one temperature, and cool all whites to another however, you select the precise type of grape you are drinking to take it to the exact temperature at which it tastes its best.
The subtle differences in the grapes mean that they are at their optimum taste at slightly varying temperatures, so it uses Peltier Thermal technology to warm or chill your wine to the exact best temperature. It also maintains this temperature whilst you drink. The gadget needs no messy ice and doesn’t use a noisy compressor, it is just quick, clean and simple to use.
Available now
Around £69.99
Available from: www.drinkstuff.com or call 08707 602 182
MagneticTime MT1 is a piece of software for iPods, PCs, PDAs and mobiles which lets you listen to your emails and Word documents in MP3 format while travelling, commuting or even exercising.
It allows you to listen to your Outlook, Outlook Express and Word documents like ‘songs,’ since they are automatically converted to MP3 files. These audio files are designed to take advantage of the standard functions of any MP3 player, so emails and documents can be played, paused, stopped, skipped back and forward, and filed in Playlists, etc.
Available now
Around £23
More information from: www.magnetictime.com
NETGEAR is making the world’s first Skype wireless mobile telephone. The WiFi phone will work wherever you are connected to a wireless Internet access point — be that in a home, office, cafe, or public hotspot etc. This makes headphones or USB phones plugged into a computer obsolete.
Pre-loaded with Skype’s software, all you need to do after turning on the phone is enter a Skype username and password. The Skype software pulls up your full contact list, displays the connection status on the phone screen, and allows you to connect to any other Skype user for free. The phone will also allow you to connect to non-Skype users with the SkypeOut feature.
Available 2006
Price not yet know
More information from: http://tools.netgear.com/skype/