Personal Alarms

Personal safety has never worried me particularly but of late I have been impressed at the range of personal alarms on the market. These range from pepper sprays, high decibel screechers and hand held sirens.

I would favour a micro Uzi for use upon any would be attacker but if I were to try to arm my girlfriend for her protection thusly I would be endangered far before any potential attacker may decide to approach her with any evil intent – hence I prefer the deterrent method.

UZI or personal alarm, the choice is yours.

I quite like the look of the unobtrusive wristwatch styles personal alarm, shown right as in a sticky situation you could be sure have access to it, like in the event of attack or even stuck in a nasty avalanche.

The range of personal alarms is impressive and I certain that one of these could help you out as a victim of crime.

TomTom Go

Always looking to justify that next purchase I have been looking into getting a good bit of Sat Nav installed in me Fiesta – probably doubling the value of the car.

Looking at the beautifully designed TomTom website I see that they are producing a lovely XL version with a high quality widescreen touchscreen.

These little beauties will help you find your way in almost any country in on the planet.

Now, as I have considered here previoulsy a portable global positioning system can’t really be said to be necessary for my sedentary lifestyle.

It is either that or for my TomTom Sat Nav GPS needs I shall have to look into hooking up my Sony Ericsson M600i to a bluetooth gps transmitter.

But consider that they can house a 20Gig mp³ collection, they’ll do me in car handsfree, they will talk to me when I am alone in the car… I need one, I want to flick its switch and turn the baby on……

m600i by sony

kind of checking whether or not the Sony Ericsson will update my blog.

Proof is in the pud.

Computer Keyboards

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I have been using qwerty keyboards for most of my life. True I took a few years away from such things, but I was fiddling with touchsensitive keypads on a Sinclair ZX-81 well over a quarter of a century ago and have used keyboards all day every day for the best part of the last 10 years……

So can I touch type? well here goes
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It appears not..

Recently I have been experimenting with a split, ergonomic Microsoft keyboard, this design kind of forces one to keep hands on either side of the keyboard and has helped me make some progress.

However quite the nicest idea to date has to be the no key keyboard (oxymoronic typing?). This little beauty has no numbers on it at all, so pretty soon you will have to be touch typing as there is nothing to look at.

Is is sad really that we dont see too much variety in such things, sad that I can’t type after all these years………

Bluetooth GPS for Mobile

Tell you what I want, ever since I received my rather unexplored, and under appreciated, Sony Ericsson M600i I feel an urge kind of to buy a Bluetooth GPS (Global Positioning System ) transmitter.

The phone came bundled with some GPS Navigation Software – Webraska; and I read that if I plug the transmitter into my car and synch it up via Bluetooth with my mobile phone I can have, full on, Tom Tom like in car satnav ( satellite navigation ) on my mobile phone.

Now it is not something crucial to my life, not even vaguely useful, but the idea does certainly please me. Currently I take a print of Google Maps if I am to find somewhere new and obscure though it appears that the people who build roads place markers which point in the correct direction of travel and hold a text message symbolising your required destination. Finding ones way is not really too hard.

Moreover, what are we, as human beings, getting like when we yearn for technological direction on the open road ? – One of the few remaining pursuits where one is expected to use all of ones faculties.

Trouble is, and with all consumerism you get a bee in your bonnet, you need some justification, and then you see a “buy now” button and you are suddenly waiting on a delivery.

So, Tom Tom – Sat Nav – GPS Bluetooth – whatever this little device is called – I will wire my dashboard up to the max and trip along to your gently cajoling tones as I meander my way to work and back.

Microsoft Zune

Now, my favourite possession and that which contained 40gig of lovingly amassed music crashed onto a wooden floor from 3 feet – wiping the drive and consigning decades of data to dust – I nearly cried, I nearly wept vast tears of utter hopelessness.

Happily this Christmas my beloved ones furnished me with a replacement and with a jump and a start my ipod was lurching onwards.

I have looked at the Zune and wondered if it really could take the place of this iconic and most reliable possession. what are we, led by the crowds to spout white earphones from hairy earholes– no I say, A Zune could well be a suitable replacement for the ipod, but there will always be a little part of me ( and I am 100% cynic ) which would always choose the beloved over the slutty temptress.

Fill it up

As it was extricated delicatley from its waxed cellophane packaging it slipped out with a sigh. I peeled off the protective film from the screen and booted the item into life. Its hard drive whirred and purred and the colour screen welcomed me to its new and improved OS, wow.

It is a blank page, it is a baby awaiting instruction, it is devoid of data..

Im going to fill this thing up now, going to educate it, going to create a small metropolis of information in it which I shall randomly access at various future moments for my personal delectation. .

Turning it on for the first time

Turning the baby on, it sparks into life, my sparlking new device sings its startup sound and streams an animated intro to me. When this electric dust has settled it emits a warm colour and entreats me to fondle its touch sensistive screen. I so and it responds with alacrity at my fingers’ caress.

Yes it is alive and responsive. Turn it on and you are fully in control and master of all that you hold.

It sings, yes it sings to me in vibrant tones and vivid hues.

It slips neatly back into its smooth sheath. Ensconced in dark it bleeps once and goes quiet and lifeless.