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 its batteries in Bluetooth I've got a Bluetooth headset and a Bluetooth car stereo and I've got a battery life tip for you but first something small just because the mobi blue cube 2 is so small it's practically a choking hazard for the plays of video so how do you get it on there watch the top here this is the headphone jack but it also serves as the USB transfer port comes with a special USB cable right here this is not too common out there but it plugs in like that and that's how it goes and in order to recharge it and you transfer it tracks and other media to it you're gonna have to have this cable so don't lose it James is one of those do as I say not as I do kind of guys next up Nicoli has a Kyocera bluetooth headset with an LED display shows caller ID and you can browse through your phone's contacts through this it also displays battery strength signal strength probably the first thing you've noticed it's just really large a loop on top here it actually houses the battery for the headset you can charge it through the charger jack on top of here and this is the indicator light Nicole rightly points out that you can't see the LED screen when you're wearing it but looks nice right right anyway some practical advice you can save on your battery life by shutting off your Wi-Fi radio on your laptop when you're not using it if you don't have a simple button to do that here's how right click on my computer choose properties select the hardware tab press the device manager button select network adapters then double-click the wireless adapter different adapters will have different ways of shutting the wireless radio off shutting off other peripherals like you say your DVD player and such can also save on battery life finally kevin Massey shows how the Sony NEX BT 5000 car stereo can stream music wirelessly from your phone we have a Nokia 5304 here and if I select the source as Audio bluetooth we've already paired these two together the phone and the head unit I should be able to press play on the phone and stream audio from the phone via the head unit through my in car speaker Kevin says that's what the BT and BT 5000 stands for Bluetooth those clever Sony people 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 dangerous ly productive