Gadgetory

hi 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 and in car gps unit that does everything a cell phone that takes abuse and steve ballmer on the zune it's not human ism first up though Nicoli shows off a nifty an affordable bluetooth headset the Jabra BTW 125 he has elder large multifunction button in the middle that flashes blue and it's activated on the top here is the charger slot and on the side you can barely notice it but it's a very skinny volume rocker you almost can't see it because it's so skinny and in its black that so it blends into the surface Nicole said that the volume rocker is a little hard to use when it's in your ear and I have to agree but otherwise she recommends it Kevin Massey recommends the preview feature on the new end car gps unit from eclipse one of my favorite features of this system is the way that it will allow you to preview a route before you drive it you can see this crosshair is taking the path to our destination virtually you can pause it you can play it in reverse and one of the great features of this is you can overlay points of interest on the roof the avn 6600 also plays DVDs CDs mp3s and more next up kent german thinks the verizon gzone type v is the hummer of cell phones verizon says you can use this phone up into a metre of water not that i really know we'd be doing with the phone when you're underwater but it is able to handle it so i'll just drop it in like that and there I go it doesn't float see and Mac want to make sure you don't drop to the bottom of a pool but you could use it to take pictures and it is supposed to be able to handle their a very moderate rainfall can't even tried it in the shower not sure who he was talking to and you can drop it too and it's supposed to still work yes it does finally ena freed caught up with steve ballmer and found out about the whole microsoft zune music player Wi-Fi thing so if we're going to come with a zoom with 802 11 built-in of course all pcs have 802 11 built-in of course no ipods have 802 11 built-in so there's certainly notice advantage we're starting from scratch to build a community of entertainment a phixion otto's both from the pc from the xbox you'll see that increasingly from the media center as well as from the portable music devices the telephone the mobile phone etc so we start but we're building on industry-standard connectivity so and go a lot of places so he doesn't know either fair enough that's it for this edition of road warrior I'm Tom Merritt check back next time for more gadgets to keep you armed and dangerously productive