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 wireless speakers for your cell phone the future of Toyota hybrids and one annoying GPS interface device let's start on a high note though the coolest wireless mouse at CES the Mogo mouse x54 one of our backstage pass winners Doug Platts shows it off sits in your PC card slot this one is an X 54 sits in the smart card slot so you see it fits right in there and then you know this is a mouse this is a mousey this is a fully functional bluetooth laser mouse Doug also noted that the new mogo mouse has a trackpad in the middle as well slim and functional next Nicoli has a portable speaker and headset combo for your phone that's great for the car kyocera wireless portable speaker with a headset included and the idea is that you use the bluetooth headset to connect with your phone and then if you want to use that your cell phone as a speaker is connected to this wireless speaker here and you will automatically transform this bluetooth headset into a portable bluetooth speaker for your cell phone Nicole said you can actually mount the speaker in your car if you want let's roll on over to the 2007 nissan maxima now Brian tell us how you really feel about this navigation input device you've also got voice guidance ability you can use your voice or you can use this annoying little fiddly thing I don't even call this this little knob is it's kind of like a laptop joystick but it's much more sensitive every time I run into this I've hated it and Nissan loves it you just give it the slightest little touch and you tip over to one direction or the other very devilishly hard to use while underway just to be fair Brian did like the way the bird's eye view worked on the map system let's cheer him up have a look at this luscious Toyota f th s concept hybrid it's sort of the future take on the prius right Brian but very much unlike the Prius this car has 400 horsepower to the rear wheels and a retractable roof panel leaves the pillars in place but clears away all the sheet metal between them nonetheless the driver never feels exposed thanks to the rather extreme pod of the drivers area and worst of all it's a concept which means you won't see something like this actually ship for quite a long time if ever 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