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CNET: Road Warrior: A headset that can't get lost

2006-12-11
hello I'm Tom Merritt editor from cnet.com and welcome to road warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go coming up a Bluetooth headset you can't lose all your apps in your pocket and a hydrogen car that burns gas first off though the Nokia 6133 is giving new meaning to the word flip phone Kent German shows you what I mean here on the side he guess there's a small button press it and the phone opens it's a little bit gimmicky we're not sure how I'd stand up to repeated tests over a couple years and it actually does cause the phone to open sometimes when you drop it on the floor yeah overall Kent says the 6133 is well-designed packed with features and performs well ever lose your Bluetooth headset the new Kardos Scala 700 can do a cool trick for people like you a particularly unique feature of the Cardo Scala 700 is the hit set locator feature what you do is you make a call for your cell phone and then you toggle the volume buttons of your cell phone up and down and then the headset will buzz so that way you can know where your headset is when you making a phone call now if they can only do that for my keys looking to travel light I've got some tips on portable applications from my latest insider secret portableapps.com and portable freeware comm are two websites that provide special software built to run specifically off external storage you download the application and install it on the USB Drive then you can use that app on any computer if you want to keep your bookmarks up to date though you'll want to use the browser that's in here all the time otherwise you have to update your bookmarks manually and that can be a pain you can get more tips on portable apps in the full version of that insider secret at Cena tv.com and finally a little taste of cars to come from the LA Auto Show the BMW hydrogen 7 for instance tastes like water BMW exhaust nothing like it it's a bottle of water but literally it is sort of the exhaust coming out of this hydrogen 7 series an amazing car being shown here at the LA Auto Show by BMW now it's not quite concept that's not quite production I'll explain that in a minute here's the idea it's a v12 engine that runs on gasoline and hydrogen burning it now not converting it to electricity in a fuel cell like you've heard so much about so it's a very different approach on the hydrogen idea by not quite concept not quite production Brian means they'll only make 50 of these and parse them out to vips that's it for this edition of Road Warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets to keep you on and dangerously productive
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