I’ve been technologically completely in the dark this past year and a half. Usually I make an effort to try and keep up to date with the goings on in technology, and specifically personnal technology. One step ahead. I’ve been stuck in a rut for a while now. I mean I only got a digital camera like 1 week ago, and to be honest while it’s good for snappy snaps, that’s really all it does. I’ll have it in my bag all the time for those times that I say damn I wish I had a camera now.

So where am I at technologically right now? Well my computer is dead, so I’ve hunted down and found a brilliant solution in mesh computers, so that’s phase one.

About 2 months ago my earphones died on me. These things have lasted with me for over 4 years so really it was about time. The newest addition to my haven are these pretty funky ones, Sennheiser. They’re german and have a case like those for sunglasses.

Which leaves me thinking about two things really. Peronnal Music player and Mobile Phone. I’m still stuck on a 2 year old Ericsson that’s had better days, and a sony mini-disc player. Both running fine, but to be honest that technology has been superceded several times.

So I’ve been looking around for replacements for both. In this first installment I’ll tackle my mp3 player needs first. There are several contenders from 3 seperate companies iriver, the ipod, and finally sony. So I decided to do a bit of net research and see what the internet buzz on this topic is.

Well the best quote I got online, at an amazon review was a guy who said very aptly, people with style get an ipod, people with sense get an iriver

Iriver has got like 2 different models that are going strong right now. The H100 series and the H300 series. Depending on the storage capacity you add the suffix on the end. 10GB, 20GB and 40GB, yeah very very Ipod I hear you say, this is true, however it seems that the iriver is one step ahead of the ipod. The 300 series which isn’t exactly cheap or anything comes with a colour TFT screen, so you know that will be the next evolution of the ipod. The amount of stuff it can do is pretty impressive, from play mpgs to the in-built radio to the actual lcd screen on the remote control. I guess the only thing going against the 300 series is predominantly the damn cost and more importantly is that it’s as ugly as sin.

I will say this though, the H100 series does look pretty sweet, but I think I’ll wait for the next version of the H320 series, the next generation hopefully they’ll go back to how their H100 series is looing.

I haven’t been a gamer in over 8 years, with the exception of Final Fantasy VII, and yet I can’t help but get excited about the PSP. The design of this thing is out of this world. It just looks like something I must have, even though I doubt I’ll be actually be using it all that much, since games are waaaay to expensive in my eyes. And since there is no way you can get those particular things cheaper, legally or illegally I doubt I’ll buy one. But damn does it look good. Go have a look here . Oh screw it have a look right here :).