Tag: HGG-NOVICE

Peek Pronto Mobile Messaging Device (Novice, Under $50) While the makers of the Pronto may cringe at the comparison, consider it a welcome companion to the elder-friendly Jitterbug cellphone. The Pronto is a $50 dedicated e-mail- and text-messaging device for those who either can't get their heads around the intricacies of using a multifunction smartphone or simply don't want to (and the ...

JVC HA-NC100 Noise-Canceling Headphones (Novice, Under $100) We'll be the first to admit JVC's HA-NC100's are long in the tooth for a tech item, having debuted in 2005. But we don't care, because we haven't come across a better set at the same price since then. Like your fancy-schmancy Bose models, these use active noise-canceling to block out ambient sounds, which means besides having giant ...

Litl Webbook (Novice, Under $1,000) Think of the Litl Webbook ($699) as the anti-PC. Sure, the 1.6 GHZ Atom processor and 1-gigabyte (GB) of RAM comes standard with most netbooks, but that's where the similarities end. For starters, the user interface strips away the menus, icons and folders typically found in Windows and Mac OSX, letting you view photos, online videos and update your ...

HP Touchsmart 300z (Novice, Under $2,500) HP's all-in-one desktop ($799 – $1,099, depending on the configuration) includes the specs you'd want for day-to-day computing: a 20-inch widescreen LCD, an AMD Athlon multi-core processor, 2-4-gigabytes (GB) of RAM and up to a 750 GB hard drive. But what separates the Touchsmart 300z from the pack is the user-friendly, iPhone-like touchscreen ...

Videophone Touch AiGuru SV1T (Novice, Under $500) For the grandparent who has neither the time nor the interest in learning to use a computer, the ASUS Videophone Touch ($299) makes an amazing gift. Essentially, the all-in-one device allows the user to make unlimited video Skype calls, without using a computer or other hardware. The 7-inch touchscreen, built-in camera, and speaker make the ...

Livio NPR Radio (Homebody, Under $250) Okay, so it's not just for listening to NPR, but for those who can't imagine anything better than a cup of lemon-ginger tea and an episode of 'Fresh Air with Terry Gross,' this is about as good as it gets. This $199 Web radio connects to your home Internet via either Ethernet or Wi-Fi to play any of Livio's index of over 16,000 other worldwide webcasts, ...

LiteOn IT Skyla Memoir Photo Frame (Domestic Goddess/God, Under $500) We love it when something so obvious and so useful that no one ever bothered to think of it suddenly appears. The first entry in LiteOn's new Skyla line of products is the Memoir, a digital photo frame. Big whoop, right? Well this one also brings photo-scanning magic to the game?pop a 4 x 6 print in the slot at the base and ...