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 it's very much about cars today we have a garmin gps device a caddy and a Porsche but first let's look at the casio exilim exz 70 unlike cars it's small and cheap but like some cars it's fast like other current casio cameras it has the quick shot feature which means that once you press the shutter all the way down it takes the photo without achieving a focus lock now you can turn that feature off but you should know that this feature is by default enabled so if you just power the camera on and start shooting click click click when you get home a lot of the shots are going to be blurry and out of focus we'll set another thing to watch out for is the power button which can get switched on easily in your pocket and now the cars the cadillac SRX SUV is full of tech but not always fasttech brian cooley shows you what i mean hit the button for the sunroof and get a cup of coffee it's going to be a while before that enormous expanse of what they call the ultra view glass sunroof opens up because it goes all the way almost to the passengers heads in the back seats there's also an adjustable sunshade that goes back and forth at different levels so you can adjust how much open how much glass and how much shade you've got going ok ok it does play DVDs and even DVD audio and there are auxiliary jacks in the front and back seats next up the 2007 Porsche Boxster S it can't play mp3s without an upgrade has no video playback no iPod input or even an auxiliary jack anywhere so what does it have besides the flat-six engine it's an open car they offer noise cancellation that's interesting it's part of a Bose audio upgrade above and beyond the upgraded audio system that will give you the audio pilot and center pilot technologies audio pilot is the one that provides noise cancellations with samples road noise and then sends a flip signal through the speakers to cancel out a lot of the harshness you can also get parking assist and electronically controlled shocks if you have 60 grand or more to throw around no matter what car you have or even if you don't have a car you take good advantage of the garmin nuvi 660 as you can see the design is really simple which is good there's just a power button on top and an SD card slot on the side if you want to listen to music or view pictures on the device it also comes with a travel kit you can have audible books and I said like mp3s and picture viewer also has a language guide so if you're traveling overseas you can get translations or a bunch of different languages that's a nice big 4 inch screen you're looking at there and all the maps are pre-loaded however it's going to set you back about a grand 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