Digital Concepts Gear to Go DC141C 1.3MP minireview

November 24th, 2005

Got it at radio shack.

Cheap $25 camera. Can also be used as a web cam on Windows at least – don’t know about Mac.

8MB of memory allows about 20 pictures at highest resolution.

video at 8 frames/sec can be taken. It’s noisier than the still photos and web cam though.

Lots of people rate this bad, but what should they really expect from a $25 camera? If you want clearer photos, get a disposable film camera for $10. This might be a good toy for young kids.

Shutter lag is 0.4 to 0.5 seconds, so keep that in mind if you’re photographing a moving subject.

To determine this, I photographed a web stopwatch and clicked the shutter when a new second started.

First picture was originally taken at 1280×1008, second picture was taken at 640×480. There’s no difference in capture speed, so may as well use 1280×1008 most of the time unless memory is an issue.

Plantronics M2500 mini-review

November 23rd, 2005

I just got one of these from Radio Shack – hopefully I can get the black friday price of $10 after rebate. Maybe that is influencing my opinion of it. From my two days experience with it, it seems like a reasonably solidly constructed reliable bluetooth earpiece.

I have noticed a little bit of static burst even though there’s less than three feet between my headset and phone and both were fully charged.

But more importantly, it picks up immediately and can redial or drop calls with the mouthpiece button.

Used with: Treo 650
Price paid: $10

Ideas to come…

November 22nd, 2005

Ideas want to be free. Good ideas want to be implemented.

In order to promote goodness, I shall be following this philosophy of Venture creative commons.

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