Asus Eee PC ... the story continues ...

Picking through my feeds today I notice on Joe Dale's blog a news feature from The Telegraph about a 'grown-up' version of the original ... you could call it Asus 2 ! The video is of the Gadget Inspectors (!!) It now has a 9" screen and runs ... wait for it ... WINDOWS !! ... and the 'new' price £329 ( I am sure I heard that right) ... now for £277.55 I can buy an HP 530 - Celeron M 520 1.6 GHz - 15.4" TFT and I suspect many other full laptops.

From the original £169 version the price has now doubled and the claim is 3hr battery life. Now I have an original and if I get 1hr with the WIFI on I think that is good.

I am not doubting the powerful kit ... and I do like mine ... but at twice the price i think I might think ...

Easi-Speak

It has been a long time in the gestation but here it is ... the TTS Easi-Speak. A cunning little sound recorder that does more than you might think.

With it you can:

Record voices, sounds or music on the move.
Use it be the roving reporter or singing star, without being attached to a PC.

Easi-Speak lets you record directly into the microphone
It plays back remotely or download files straight to your PC through the attached USB

It has a 128MB memory that can record up to 2 hours (high quality sound)
Files are WAV or MP3 format
Audacity Music Editing Software is provided
Its built in battery charged through USB.

What more could you want?

PS

It is an interesting piece of kit as you can record into it and play back from it. So it isn't really a microphone but a combination of player and recorder.

To test out its playback quality I plugged it into my laptop and uploaded an MP3 track to it. The quality of the playback was excellent.

I have also now had time to test the quality of the sound recording itself. With the mic held about 20 cms away from my mouth there seemed to be very little distortion and the playback was equally good.

I look forward to comments by others.