10 devices are highly appreciated in terms of ideas

Google Earth redefines the way we still think about the planet, and Razr's phone proves that people care about sex. But new products will look better if they are really useful for everyday life.

Folding memory card

SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus

To transfer photos to a computer after shooting, people will need a USB cable. SanDisk (USA) has a much better idea by allowing it to be removed from the camera and plugged directly into the USB port.

The SanDisk Ultra II SD Plus looks like every other SD card except it folds in at the coupling. Meanwhile, users will see a metal contact kit that can slide directly into a USB port on a Mac or PC. The computer will recognize the card as an external drive and users will download the image the way they still do with the USB cable.

Voice mail VCR

Hanging 700W.Photo: Treonauts

Voice mail is a great invention, but having to remember the location of playback keys (replay), skip, delete . is not interesting at all, especially when customers use multiple systems at the same time. voice mail system. Palm has decided to add buttons like on the video player (VCR) for the touch screen of the upcoming mobile phone Treo 700W, which helps people just touch the keys Skip, Play, Delete. .

Front TV connector

"Home entertainment theater" is something people always expect, but a small detail rarely mentioned by advertisers is the network of cable cables designed in the back of the product causing a lot of trouble.

Hewlett-Packard's new TV system solves the problem simply: everything is plugged in front, the connection panel illustrates what users are doing and a small "door" is clever. hide the entire wiring system.

Record larger resolutions than standard TVs

Canon PowerShot S80.Photo: CNet

Most digital cameras today are capable of video recording large enough to watch on a TV screen 640 x 480 at a rate of 30 frames per second. However, Canon's PowerShot S80 records at 1024 x 768 pixel resolution. As such, users have the opportunity to watch clear video on HDTV and can split a frame to save it as a still image.

Watch TV shows again

iPod video.Photo: InformITV

Spending millions of dollars to build a program just to show it once is a waste. But pirated downloads when doing TV business over the Internet are enough to make entertainment companies crazy.

And Apple joined the iPod video. ABC is the first media company that allows iPod users to store 5 TV shows for $ 2 / show without ads. Users begin to enter the stage of watching TV programs that install anti-copy software, which can be downloaded to the computer at a reasonable price.

Phone with external design button

LG VX8100.Photo: CNet

The mobile phone (candy bar) is equipped with a joint to become a flip phone (folding phone). After that, the flip phone has an external screen for users to determine who is calling. The problem is that products deprive everyone of their choice when they want to cancel a call or go to voice mail. If the phone is turned on, they must receive the power and cannot press the 'Ignore' button. If they turned off the "open to listen" function, they had lost the original purpose of designing a flip phone.

The most suitable solution is to equip the external keys. When someone calls LG VX8100, users can select some small keys below the screen, including Ignore (ringing until the voice mail is received) or Dismiss (direct call transfer to voice mail).

Free domain name

Domain names and e-mail addresses with their own privileges, for example abc@abc.com, are what people want but the cost is too expensive and requires a certain level of expertise.

Microsoft has allowed users to own an arbitrary .com tail address. Online software packages are in the testing phase of Office Live for small businesses including domain names, websites and free e-mail accounts. However, users will have to accept some small ads on the page and may pay a small amount if they want to remove those ads.

Removable screen

Audiovox DVD Shuttle.Photo: CNet

People often spend a huge investment on all kinds of LCD monitors: one for laptops, one for digital cameras, one for Game Boy devices, not to mention portable DVD players, handheld camcorders (camcorder) .

Audiovox (USA) has reduced this redundancy with the DVD Shuttle. This is a portable battery-powered device that can be attached to the driver's headrest to serve the younger audience behind. But the product is also used in many different situations such as laying on the ceiling, between cars, in each car, or with AM - FM radio in the kitchen, using the speakers in the bedroom . Equipment and screens will follow the user anytime, anywhere so that they are not constrained in a passive place.

Take photos automatically

Casio Exilim Zoom EX-Z57.Photo: Casio

If taking a family photo, users will understand 'Ansel Law': geometrically, the number of closed eyes will increase with the number of people in the group. Therefore, the Casio camera will automatically capture 3 consecutive modes in the stop mode, which helps to reduce the ratio of the number of eyes closed significantly compared to one shot.

High resolution hybrid tape

JVC and Sony developed the first handheld camcorders capable of recording high resolution with widescreen aspect ratio. This will be the perfect opportunity for them to introduce a new, expensive and proprietary format that is not compatible with any other camcorder, so it will be able to increase sales to millions. However, they did not do that. In contrast, these HDTV camcorders still record on every $ 4 MiniDV tape that appears in a popular camcorder.

Hai Nguyen