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Back to School is Better with Cool New Tech Stuff
Preparing to go back
to school after summer vacation is never easy, especially when advertisers
start reminding you that it’s “back to school time”
in early July. But now that it really IS time to prepare, some cool
new tech items will help get you through it all in style.
All the best,
Steven
R. Mitchell
Editor — HomeElectronicsJournal.com
No Books in My
Backpack,
Just My Cell Phone, Laptop, PDA…
When your parents
were in school, back to school prep meant buying a few notebooks
and sharpening some pencils. Calculators were about as high-tech
as it got, and research was done the old-fashioned way — in
the library. Obviously, much has changed since then. New technology
makes your school life easier and much more fun, particularly with
these products.
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Toshiba
Satellite A105 Laptop - $1,299.99
A good
laptop is a great plus for any student. The Toshiba A105 has
a terrific feature set at an affordable price — a 1.83
GHz Intel Core Duo processor, 2 gigs of memory, a 15.4-inch
display, a 120 GB hard drive, a DVD burner, Intel PRO Wireless
LAN, Harmon Kardon speakers, a Li-Ion battery with more than
three hours of power, and Windows XP Media Center Edition.
Plus, the A105 offers advanced security features to keep your
data in and others out, including a fingerprint reader, password
security and a security cable lock slot.
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Motorola Q Smartphone - $449.99
The Motorola
Q lets you access
e-mail, surf the Web, listen to MP3s, watch videos, get breaking
news, and take photos with a 1.3 megapixel camera with built-in
flash. It has a large color screen, excellent speakers, a
luminescent keyboard, and runs Windows 5.0 mobile platform.
And don’t forget — it’s a high-quality phone,
perfect for tracking down that cutie you met in class.
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| Voltaic
Solar Backpack $239.00
Voltaic
has created a backpack with three solar panels built into
the back, allowing you to recharge a wide variety of electronic
devices (cell phones, PDAs, cameras, 2-way radios, or MP3
players) while on the go. The solar panels charge an Li-Ion
internal battery pack, which you can then hook up to charge
your devices using one of a set of 11 standard adapters. And
you can even fit books in there (charging not required).
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