All the latest motoring accessories
Memory Stick Cars
Price: from €24.50 + €6.05 PP
Buy: iwoot.com
MEMORY STICKS are an indispensable way of moving our electronic data about. No software, just plug 'em in, pull off the info you want and take them away. Now someone has come up with a gloriously silly and fun idea: turning memory sticks into neat and iconic cars. When you plug in these 256MB or 1GB memory sticks their engines rev and their headlights flash on and off.
Canon PowerShot G10
Price: €599.99
Buy: Conn's Cameras, Clarendon Street, Dublin 2 01-677 7179
EVERYONE IS talking about digital SLR cameras right now, but what about if you want something that is compact but packs a mighty punch when it comes to images?
This could be the one to go for - the PowerShot G10. It comes with a 14.7megapixel sensor, which is more than some digital SLRs and it has a 28mm-140mm wide-zoom lens plus most of the manual features that you will find on an SLR, all in a compact body. This could be the perfect compromise.
Bluetrek Metal
Price: from €33.99 PP €14.29
Buy: expansys.ie
BLUETOOTH HEADSETS for the most part leave you looking like some sort of Star Trek character, so finding one that is really discreet is a real bonus. The Bluetrek Metal is one of the thinnest headsets at just 4mm and offers four hours talk-time and up to four days of standby time. It has good audio quality, a half-decent battery life, and comes with a USB adaptor that allows you to charge it from a computer.
Roadscan Video Event Data Recorder
Price: €379
Buy: roadscan.co.uk/
ROADCAM IS A windscreen-mounted "video event data recorder". It continuously records, in colour, 20 seconds of activity in front of your vehicle using a single high-quality lens, which operates both day and night. This device hopes to sort out arguments over crashes. When an incident occurs, caused by sharp breaking, rapid acceleration, excessive cornering or sudden impact, RoadCam saves the recorded video of the 14 seconds immediately before and the 6 seconds immediately after the incident.
This incident is downloaded into the RoadCam's software, allowing it to be analysed in detail.
Viewranger Ordnance Survey maps
Price: €152.40 (download)
Buy: viewranger.com
FOR THE first time it is possible to explore Ireland's less trodden paths safely with high quality Ordnance Survey Ireland mapping on your smartphone using ViewRanger, a fun and easy-to-use off-road satellite navigation system. ViewRanger provides high resolution Ordnance Survey Ireland 1:50,000 scale maps with contours, roads, paths and tracks clearly displayed. In addition, tourist and leisure information such as historic sites, viewpoints, golf courses and picnic sites are also indicated.
Other features include "Buddy Beacon" for keeping track of friends on the hills and a sports computer for comparing routes and performance, which all add a new mobile dimension to outdoor navigation and the enjoyment of the great outdoors.