CBS MarketWatch technology correspondent Renay San Miguel talked about some must-have gifts for the holidays with CBS News Early Show Co-anchor Jane Clayson. Here is what she recommended:
Compaq ipac handheld computer
Color screen
Uses Microsoft Windows
$500
Popularity is making traditional PC companies nervous
With $200 attachment, can connect to InternetHandSpring Visor Prism handheld computer
Color screen
Uses Palm operating system
Unlike Palm Pilot, includes expansion slot in back
$500HandSpring attachments
VisorPhone works like a mobile phone, $300
Eyemodule turns Visor into a digital camera, $150
Nexian HandyGPS tells you exactly where you are and provides a map, $150
Soundsgood Audio Player saves an hours worth of music and includes a headphone connection, $249Seiko SmartPad input device for handhelds
For use with Palm computing systems like the Pilot and Visor
Looks like old-fashioned organized
Comes with electronic pen that writes on paper and simultaneously enters the data into the handheld
Great for adding details that can't be expressed in words
$200Olympus Camedia digital printing camera
Includes built-in Polaroid printer
Links to personal computer
$800 Fuji 40i digital camera
Combines features of an MP3 player, a digital still camera and a digital video camera
Makes 80 seconds of AVI video
Allows you to send little movies to your friends over the Internet
8 ounces
$700Sony Walkman MP3 music player
Sony's smallest Walkman -- fits anywhere
Holds 2 hours of music
Comes 20 years after introduction of original Walkman
$300Nomad MP3 music player
Holds over 150 hours of music
Portable
Allows you to organize music, make playlists
$500Cieva wireless picture frame
Looks like a traditional picture frame
Connects to a phone jack
Automatically accepts photos from over the Internet
Old photos are archived on Cieva's Web site
Owner does not need computer
So easy to use you could give to grandma
$249, with $5/month subscription fee