The ‘Do Not Disturb’ Watch

Ever been someplace where you couldn’t politely answer your phone, but you really needed to know who was calling? The Sony Ericsson Bluetooth Watch MBW-100 is great for such situations. Linked wirelessly to your Sony Ericsson Bluetooth mobile phone, the analog watch allows you to see who is calling through a small OLED display. You can then reject or send the call to voicemail with a discrete key press or take the call through your phone or handsfree solution such as a Bluetooth headset. The MBW-100 also allows you to control your phone’s music player. A vibrating alert tells you when you are out of range, so there is no risk of forgetting your phone. Priced at $399, the watch is available now but tough to find due to high demand.

Move Digital Content Device to Device

Vault 360 Platinum from Bamboo Technology (www.bambootech.com) is a software tool that seamlessly converts and moves digital files such as music, photos and movies, from one device to another. Vault 360 Platinum organizes, categorizes, transfers, backs up and stores consumers’ music, photos and movies on PC hard drives and then creates the pipe to export the digital files to virtually any portable device that can display video such as the Video iPod, PSP, smartphones, MP3 players, PVDs and PDAs. Designed to be a true point-and-click experience, the highly intuitive tool eliminates the need to understand any underlying technology such as formats, codecs and frame rates allowing users to focus on the entertainment experience instead of reading manuals to figure out how to make one device speak to another. The software retails for $49.99.

Take a Full-Sized Keyboard Everywhere

The i-Tech Virtual Laser Keyboard (www.virtual-laser-keyboard.com) leverages the power of laser and infrared technology and projects a full-size keyboard onto any flat surface. As you type on the laser projected keyboard, detection technology based on optical recognition enables the user to tap the images of the keys, complete with realistic tapping sounds, which feed into the compatible Bluetooth-enabled PDA, Smartphone, laptop or PC.

The Virtual Laser Keyboard is created by a lightweight device that weighs two ounces and is similar in size to a disposable cigarette lighter. The Virtual Laser Keyboard includes a self-contained, rechargeable lithium ion battery. It provides the Virtual Laser Keyboard with its own internal power supply, so it doesn’t drain any battery power from the PDA or PC. The battery lasts two to three hours, more than enough time to do some instant messaging or send an SMS from the handheld device or to update calendar and phone book entries. The keyboard is priced at $179.99.