Gadgetory

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 portable video player that also records video a camera you can crush and a Nintendo Wii laptop you heard that but first Bonnie cha has the nokia n800 it's an internet tablet but its design makes it good for at least one thing built in this little kickstand so you can set it on the desk and view web pages that way I'm front you have a beautiful screen it's really sharp and crisp so it's great to view the web pages very cool thing on the device is built in webcam also rotate 180 degrees so you can view in front of you and invest video conference is hold on I'll be right back it can surf the web and can do VoIP as well next Jasmine France has a new portable video player from Philips the PMC 7230 with a unique feature this pm see also records video which is pretty unusual I don't think I've seen a portable media center in the past that records video and it even comes with the cable which is this cable here you can just plug it right into your AV outs on your TV or cable box Jasmine said the viewing angle is really good too so it's easy for two people to watch at once great for Valentine's Day up next a camera for the water-based road warrior that'd be a ceiling warrior anyway it's the olympus stylus 770 SW when you're diving it has a built-in manometer which is sort of like an altimeter only in reverse it lets you see how deep you are going in the water among other features and it will actually record to the information stored on the image how deep you are when you shot which makes this really handy for if you're diving and want to take pictures it's also crushproof up to 220 pounds and freezeproof down to 14 degrees Fahrenheit that's negative 10 Celsius come on America get metric finally Ryan block from engadget dropped by our crave podcast to talk about the modding of a Nintendo Wii into a laptop yep a laptop from our regular columnist name is Ben Heck indoor and he's kind of known in the console modding community he actually makes laptops and portables out of old video game system so he did so uh he's done like Ataris he's done like I think you did a Jaguar he definitely he was really well known for his xbox 360 like heard about master yeah I wanted him to do a a wee laptop and it came out really well i really like Ryan said Ben actually integrated the wiimote sensor into the top so the motion sensing works just fine that's it for this edition of road warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets that keep you armed and dangerously productive