Technology - Advanced High Tech Item
PHILIPS AMBILIGHT TELEVISION
Ella's verdict: တီဗီြ အလင္းကို အခန္းတြင္းေရာင္ျပန္ဟပ္ေစသည္ သတၱ၀ါ
(When viewed with Ambilight - which fills the room with ambient lighting corresponding to the image on screen - this HD (high definition) TV creates a more vivid experience. From £578.)
SMILE DETECTION CAMERA
Sony is investing heavily in setting itself apart. £185
Picture perfect: Sony smile recognition camera, £185
DESKTOP VACUUM
စားပဲြတင္ ဖုန္စုတ္ၾကြက္ အဲ စားၾကြင္း ဘီစကြတ္မ်ား သန္ ့ရွင္းေပးေသာသတၱ၀ါ
(Ella's verdict: A battery-powered novelty item - which is almost 4in tall - with a serious purpose. In workaholic Britain we spend more time at our desks than our European neighbours. If the office has become our second home, is it any wonder we're getting a little desk-proud? £9.99 )
CASSETTE MEMORY STICK
မယ္မုိရီ အာလံျပဲ.. ပံုမွန္ memory-stickမွ သီခ်င္းမ်ား ကက္ဆက္ကဲ့သို ့ ျပန္ဖြင့္နားေထာင္နုိင္ပါေသာ သတၱ၀ါ။
(Ella's verdict: It's shaped like an old-fashioned cassette, but this is a 1GB USB memory stick you can plug into your computer, and on which you can store all kinds of files - including text, music, photos and videos. £19.99)
360 DEGREE MIRROR
အရပ္၈မ်က္နာ မွန္ ေဘးက ၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ေရွ ့က ၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ေနာက္က ၾကည့္ၾကည့္ ... အတ္ အတ္ အတ္...
(Ella's verdict: It may not be high-tech but, like all the best gadgets, the mirror provides a solution to a problem that's been bugging us for ever. It's hard to believe no one thought of it sooner. £18 )
Seeing double: 360 degree mirror, £18
FIAT 500 WITH BLUETOOTH
ကားနဲ ့ ဖံုး... သိပ္လက္မခံနုိင္ပါ။ ကားေမာင္းရင္း ဖံုးေျပာမႈ ့ေၾကာင့္ လူေပါင္းေျမာက္ျမားစြာ ေသဆံုးေနရဆဲ
(Ella's verdict:Volkswagen brought back the Beetle, BMW revived the good old Mini, but the new Fiat 500 is affordable, it looks great and it offers the kind of top-spec features you'd expect to find in top-of-the-range cars. If you have a mobile with Bluetooth capability (which lets your phone transmit data wirelessly on a radio frequency), a chip built into the dashboard of the Fiat allows you to operate your phone using voice recognition or the radio controls on your steering wheel - so hands-free is built in. From £8,100 )
Hands-free: Fiat 500, from £8,100
INTELLIGENT WINE COOLER
က်ေနာ္တုိ ့အတြက္ေပ့ါဗ်ာ... ေအးေဆးေပ့ါ. ၀ုိင္ေအးေအးေလး...
(Ella's verdict: This is one use for technology we can all appreciate. When you select a setting - Merlot, perhaps - the intelligent cooler, which plugs into the mains, uses sensors to detect the bottle temperature and sets about warming or cooling it to perfection. £69.95 )
Chilled: Intelligent wine cooler £69.95
IPOD MUSIC PILLOW
ဂီတကို အိပ္လည္း မျပတ္ေစရပါ။ သီခ်င္း ဆုိနုိင္ေသာ သတၱ၀ါ အဲ... အဲ ေခါင္းအုန္း
(Ella's verdict: As this gadget proves, there's no end to the ways technology can personalise our worlds these days. It's very simple. There is a tiny speaker deeply embedded in the pillow which connects to the headphone jack of your radio or iPod or MP3 player via the audio cable that comes with it. £20 )
RETRO IPOD ALARM
အျမင္အကပ္ဆံုးသတၱ၀ါ
(Ella's verdict: Your iPod already has a built-in alarm clock function. All you need to do is connect it to this speaker dock, shaped like an old-fashioned alarm clock - and it'll wake you with whatever tune gets you out of bed. It's a clever way to fuse new technology with the rather comforting idea of an alarm clock. £39.95)
WIZARD PEN
ၾကပ္ဆုိတဲ့ သတၱ၀ါဗ်။ က်ဴပ္တုိ ့ဘာလုပ္လုပ္ ၾကည့္ျပီး စာနဲ ့မွတ္တမ္းတင္သတဲ့။ ေတာက္ ဒီအေကာင္မရိွမွ ေတာ္ၾကာ က်ဴပ္ဘာလုပ္လုပ္ မွတ္တမ္းတင္ျပီး အေမ့ကို သြားတုိင္ရင္ ဒုကၡ။
It's a pen pen, that writes and everything. But it records every movement you make, then you plug it into a computer and suddenly there's all your writing on screen (with nice circles and hearts above the 'i's!) Or if you're boring, you can take notes in lectures, then put them in your computer.
Ella's verdict: The Z Pen makes it possible to save and then send handwritten missives as digital documents. Just clip the receiver to the top of the page and it will store every pen stroke in its memory. When you plug the receiver straight into your PC, the preloaded software will convert your handwriting into (handwritten) text. £99.99
DIGITAL VIDEO CAMERA
This is the best video camera EVER. It's tiny, and pink, and you just turn it on, point it at whatever you want, press one big button that you can't miss ... and that's it. Now pull out a little thing from the side, plug it into your PC and your film's on YouTube in seconds, practically!!!
Ella's verdict: The Flip is the ultimate in user-friendliness, plugging straight into your computer's USB port and uploading with no fuss. It has a 2GB memory and a capacity to store up to an hour of video footage, as well as stills. £99.95)
Suppose you want to record a video for your internet diary, or talk to your friends, or boyfriend, online, yeah? Well you've probably got a camera in your PC, but it makes you look yucky! Just plug in this cool Hollywood Web Gear movie-camera and spotlight into your computer and suddenly - action! you're ready for your close-up.
Ella's verdict: This webcam, which just for fun looks like an old-fashioned studio camera, offers surprisingly high picture quality. Use it with the studio-style spotlight and it's perfect for creating YouTube videos or just video chatting with friends around the world. £9.99 and £4.99
DIGITAL PHOTOFRAME KEYRING
ခ်စ္ခ်စ္ေလးမ်ား ကိုယ္နဲ ့မကြာ အတူထားလို ့ရဖို ့ ေသာ့ခ်ိတ္
(Ella's verdict: Even the best cameras and camera-phones can have grainy digital viewing screens. But this little keyring turns your favourite photos (which you can upload simply from your computer) into a portable collection that you can show in perfect high-resolution on the 1.5-inch screen. £44.95 )
Memories: Photoframe keyring, £44.95
TOUCH SCREEN MOBILE
ဒါက သိျပီးတာ အေကာင္ဗ်။ မမိုက္တာက ဒီအေကာင္ကို ေထာက္ဖို ့ ျပသနာဘဲ။ ဘာဘဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ခလုပ္နဲ ့နိွပ္ရတာ ဘဲ ေကာင္းပါတယ္ဗ်ာ
Ella's verdict: The iPhone and the high-tech touch phones that came in its wake were aimed squarely at the male market. But as the limited edition, Needle Phone goes on sale, it's clear it is not just geeks and businessmen who want a phone that can do it all.
E-mails, weather reports, music, video, it's all available at the touch of a button. Its stylus function makes it possible to handwrite your texts. Free with Orange.
Touch screen: Ted Baker mobile, free with Orange
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