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GoLITE PI, Philips Home Healthcare Solutions
SnorePro, HBI-USA
GoLITE PI, Philips Home Healthcare Solutions, $190
If Groundhog Day came and went and you wanted to crawl back into a burrow, it may be time to break out the light therapy. Blue light therapy is supposed to help banish the winter blues and goLITE PI offers that with its BLUEWAVE technology. Programmable and with adjustable intensity, a carry case and AC adapter.
SnorePro, HBI-USA, $100 US
It’s not much use if the blue light therapy is supposed to help you sleep and your partner is snoring away like a bandsaw. A more sophisticated option than digging your elbow into the offender is the SnorePro, which has somewhat the same effect as a nudge, except delivered with a digital pulse. It’s supposed to make the snorer change positions, and stop the noise. It is worn like a wristwatch and has a LCD screen to track your snoring history. It also helps identify factors that can affect your decibel level — like sleep position, booze and cigarettes.
MFC-990CW Wireless Network Colour Inkjet All-in-One, Brother Canada, $250
A built-in 5.8-GHz cordless handset adds to the convenience of Brother’s latest all-in-one offering. That includes a digital answering machine and a full-duplex speakerphone. Built-in WiFi as well as regular wired interface helps clear the desk clutter. It also has Bluetooth wireless so you can print JPG photos from most hand-held devices that have Bluetooth. It also has on-screen photo editing on the 10.7-cm (4.2-inch) touchscreen colour LCD and a 15-sheet automatic document feeder for unattended faxing, copying or scanning. A plus for techno-phobes is Brother’s toll-free technical support that goes for the lifetime of the machine. www.brother.ca
FinePix A150, Fujifilm, $150
Another in the New Year’s lineup of affordable and high-featured point-and-shoot cameras. Even though these cameras are supposed to be entry-level versions, they offer much of the sophistication we used to expect only in much higher-end cameras. The FinePix A150 is 10-megapixels, with a three-times optical zoom, Face Detection technology with automatic red-eye removal, and high-sensitivity of ISO 1600 for low-light and picture stabilization technology help deliver sharper photos so no one need know you only spent $150 on it, a figure that seems to be the new sweet spot for entry-level point-and-shoot cameras.
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