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Open, Save and Sew Embroidery is for grandmothers, did you say? Or housewives who stay home with hours and hours at their disposal?. Now, here is a sewing machine with a difference . Bernina's Artist 170 is blessed with memory that can store 255 banks which can be filled as many elements each. You can program all the stitching right there on the LCD screen. With a touch of finger you choose from 147 stitches. And if you need to update the built-in stitch package, there is a customised pattern selection software. Details can be obtained at www.berninausa.com.
Normally, dashboards though equipped with latest techo-marvels, end up looking cluttered. If you have a weakness for gizmos, the elegant Clarion AutoPC would be a dream come true. The size of a car-stereo, this is the way to drive the familiar Windows CE OS: from an easy -to-use, in-dash AM/FM CD player!! The computer combines an address book, GPS navigation, voice memo, an automatic phone dialer and E-mail access. This all-in-one deck even takes voice commands and reads text aloud in a monotonous male or female voice. Estimated price is $1,900. Visit www.clarionmultimedia.com.
Are you one of those jet-setting corporate types? Found yourself gawking stupidly at the pollo and the lengua on a taqueria menu on one of those trips abroad? Don't worry, help is at hand. Seiko's Quictionary offers an inconspicuous bilingual way out. This pen-sized portable hand held scanner spells a major breakthrough in translation technology. Just glide the tip over the problem word and it will scan and automatically display the English translation on the LCD. With a rich vocabulary of more than 4,00,000 words and idioms, it understands French, Spanish, German, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Hebrew, Russian and Portuguese --no matter which font and type size! The scanned word immediately appears on the display next to its most common translation along with additional translations, idioms and phrases. It's that simple! When confronted with words that are difficult to scan, the 'OptiCard' helps spell the word optically. Priced at $250. Details available at www.seiko-usa-cpd.com. Are you stuck at office when your favourite cricket match is on TV? Just hook ATI's Xclaim to a Mac and it will open an amazingly crystal-clear TV window on your desktop. There is no dearth of TV tuners in the market, but this tuner is enriched with a parental control lock, has zoom-in capabilities and can monitor at least four of your favourite channels simultaneously. It can even monitor the closed captioning stream for keywords, and alert you when the show you wish to catch is on. And if you are knee-deep in work, it helpfully captures a text transcript of the show on cue --Imagine recording documentaries or step-by-step instructions for building projects from a home improvement show or that favourite recipe from a cooking show! Just make sure your Mac 7.5.2 is equipped with QuickTime 2.5. The product is available with a five-year limited warranty. Priced at $99 and details at www.atitech.com. Colour adds spice to television viewing. Amkette has introduced a twin range of advanced technology colour monitors--Netview 70K and Netview 5D in 38 cm and Netview 56K in 36 cms, in India. The models are chip-based, digital control, multi-frequency, SVGA colour monitors. The 70K model,priced at Rs 9,500, has a 0.28 mm dot pitch and full size, FST, anti-glare reduced anti-static for better picture quality and viewing. The 56K model, at Rs 7,500 is similar to Netview 5D, except that it is 14-inch. |
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