Tracking Polar Bears

The net has been used for many things, however this seems to be one of the more unusual instances where technology meets wildlife.  Two polar bears. One million nine hundred thousand square kilometers of frozen arctic wilderness. Where are they? It should be like looking for needles in a haystack, but it isn't. The bears are tagged with radio collars, which beam their positions via a satellite to this web site.

Gadgets

Im always interested in gadgets and had long been putting off purchasing an iPod because although it looks smart and is cool, I hear it is short on battery life and is still very expensive.

Whilst fight off another buying urge this gadget caught my eye.  It is NextBase's SDV17-A.

Its a DVD player with sterio output and a 7 inch 16:9 widescreen output for around £290.  Whilst this seems clever on its own it is also an MP3 player and supports the a huge number of formats below.  It seems to me that you can get rather a lot of MP3's on a 4.7Gb DVD! 

The formats it supports are DVD/MP3/CD/VCD/SVCD/MP3/CDDA/JPEG/CD-R/RW, DVD +/- R, DVD +/- RW player.  It has 2.5 to 3 hours playback and car kits and loads of accessories. 

Review here, and link to manufacturer Nextbase here.

Also whilst looking for the best price for this I stumbled on some impressive WiFi 802.11G audio headphones and other goodies at Shenzhen Wisebona Technology Ltd with their products at Wireless Entertianment & DAB.  Ive not found a uk supplier yet.

USB wireless digital audio transmiter 2.4G wireless digital headphone