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CNET: Road Warrior: The island of mobile misfits

2007-03-23
hi i'm ty married editor from cnet.com and welcome to Road Warrior where we take a look at the hottest gadgets for life on the go the island of misfit gadgets today we have a brittle little mp3 player eh not so all weather camera and a hybrid sports car let's start with a comfy little bluetooth headset done Nicoli has the genom and x 6000 on the back here is the very nice and flexible earbud as well as the ear hook that can be adjusted on either side we found the buttons really easy to press a little small but that's ok the airboat was very nice and comfortable in the ear and ear hook was also very comfortable around the year as well it's really good sound quality Nicole said the noise cancellation works particularly well even on busy city streets now on to the misfit Island the olympus stylus 760 is an all-weather camera but all-weather apparently doesn't include floods it is important to note that while this camera is all whether it is not waterproof don't expect to go swimming with this and have it still work when you're done if you really want to dunk your camera you should spend a bit extra on the olympus stylus 770 SW this is just weather resistant clearly not as durable that's not to say it isn't a fine 7 megapixel camera in dry weather next up Donald Bell has a nano-sized mp3 player called the MPI ofy 800 be careful with that thing Donald so a flash door here for external flash memory cards flash door just broke off as I suspected when I was reviewing this there's other little plastic parts on this that I was worried about breaking too and I mentioned this in my review this is a little USB door on the side here which is just barely tethered on to the side of the device otherwise though it's actually a pretty solid player the important thing is it plays music well that is the important thing is it finally a hot rod with good gas mileage Brian Cooley has the Honda sports hybrid from Geneva the small hybrid sports concept or s HSC not a real sexy name but kind of a sexy car from Honda it uses their existing IMA hybrid technology but man what a different looks 40 low-slung 20 inch wheels a floating glass rear view panel and video cameras for rear view mirrors if you couldn't guess by looking that design came from Honda's european-style shop in Germany 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
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