Sony Cyber-shot™ DSC-F505.

"What the hell is this?" you say to yourself the first time you see this stylized baby. This new digital camera offers state-of-the-art technology right at your fingertips. It's superslick, futuristic design with buttons thrown all over the little magnesium body makes it a true eye catcher.

The long Carl Zeiss precision lens has even got a built in pop-up flash. Important buttons are mounted on the side of the huge lens for quick access. On the body itself, is the traditional view finder exchanged with a 2" high resolution back lit lcd colour display.

The FSC-F505 has got all the output you need: a/v video out, usb (win98/mac) and serial interface. And the little thing stores it pictures on Sony Memory Sticks. It comes with a 4 mb stick which is way too small for even the last photosession. You'll need at least 32 mb, but 64 is definately preferred and with that configuration you will be able to store around 120-130 images in 1600x1200 resolution and high quality compression.

This is exactly what makes this camera so desirable. It's colours and crispness are truly the best in it's class ... Even at night it delivers ultracrisp pictures. No jpeg noise and no distorted colours. You can even record mpeg movies in 320x240 including sound. This camera is probably one of the best offers out there right now.

State of the art technology smoothly blends with sophisticated high tech functionalism. Oh yeah!

More info: Sony

Onhand Matsucom

The Ruputer is a very unique watch. It took Japan by storm and became an instant success. Now it is here in an English version called the Onhand. What is so special about this clunky retro looking watch that brings back sweet memories from the good old 80's? It has a 16 bit CPU and 2 mb of ram. It's 102 x 64 resolution b/w backlit screen gives you, your daily dose of information directly from your wrist. It ships with all the standard PIM software as you know it from the Palm Pilots and other PDA's. Fully functional and easy to operate.

Calender, address book, expense, memo and to do list. You can set an unlimited number of alarms that reminds you of your next conference or dinner date. If that isn't enough for you to wear in a watch it also comes with a serial port cradle that connects it to your pc in a split second and synchronizes with your pc software... if you don't want to use it's built-in IR port. If you want to expand it's internal software library you just connect to the internet and download what you need... neat huh?

The preloaded graphic worldwatch is worth the whole watch. Make sure to get a new strap as the first thing because the one that is shipped with it looks really tacky. The watch comes in two colours: black and transparent including the cradle.

More info: OnHand PC

Sony VAIO Music Clip Personal Internet Player

Another little wonder gadget from the super electronics pimp, Sony. Their VAIO Music Clip Personal Internet Player is the first generation of ultra tiny MP3 players (it's even smaller than a Pantone marker). A selection of 5 buttons controls the life of this good looking MP3 player. A nanoscopic back lit display keeps you updated with sound level, eq and track number. It holds up to 50-60 minutes of quality MP3's in its 64mb heart. It's size makes it extremely portable and that's about it. As soon as you need to load music into the thing, all the fun ends.

The software supplied with the player is so user unfriendly and complicated to use. To load tracks onto the player the PC program must convert the MP3 files into some sort of Sony- copy- protected- file- format. This conversion takes just as long as ripping the tracks from a 4x speed cd-rom drive (no kidding). After the conversion it saves the converted files onto your harddrive. After this you will need to load them into the player via the USB cable. That takes up to 5 minutes too. So from the point where you have a CD till the tracks are inside the devil it may take up to an hour! The program can rip CD's directly into the copy protected format which

saves you the conversion time. But then you can not exchange the tracks with any other people in the whole universe. And the player is only supported by Windows98® though Windows2000® has been out for several months! This gadget is definately not worth a penny except that if you use the battery compartment for storing weed or microfilms.

More info: Sony