TECH SPECIAL .................Use Tech to Document YOUR LIFE (1)

Use Tech to Document YOUR LIFE (1)





We tend to move through life so fast that it all fades into a blurry mess.
show you how to use the right combination of apps and gadgets to keep everything digitally backed up and more importantly, in a way that is easily retrievable at a later date

GADGETS

HTC RE

Rs 9,990 You want a wearable camera to be really light and unobtrusive. At the same time, it should capture what you need without much fuss. The wide angle lens and smartphone control on the HTC RE helps you do all that.Plus, its waterproof, looks unique and captures high quality 1080p video and photos with just a couple of taps. If cheap, no-nonsense, high quality audiovideo is what you need, the HTC RE is hard to beat.

Narrative Clip

Rs 9,500 (including shipping) When you start taking photographs of an event, you sort of detach from it. Well, that's what the makers of the Narrative Clip would have you believe. The Clip is a tiny (20 grams, 9mm thick) automatic camera with storage for 4,000 pictures (5MP each) and 2 day battery life. Clip it to any part of your clothing and it'll keep taking photos of everything you see and everything you're part of. The AndroidiOS app will let you view and sort everything later.

Samsung Note Series

Rs 23,900 onwards Thanks to the pressure sensitive stylus, Samsung's Note series of devices are the perfect choice of phonetablet for someone who constantly needs to draw, jot notes or annotate. You can take a photo of anything and start drawing on it, scribble notes, save clips and images to combine later, take a screenshot and start drawing etc.The cheapest in the series is the Note 3 Neo and the newest is the Galaxy Note Edge with a curved amoled screen.

Portronics Portable Scanners

Rs 4,990 onwards If you often see something you need to save (reference books in a library, for instance), you can use a portable scanner. Portronics offers two versions that are truly portable ­ they have built in batteries and record to a micro SD card. Scanny 6 is great for books and almost any flat surface ­ even a poster on a wall ­ you have to manually move it across the surface you want to scan. Scanny 7 is a portable auto sheetfed scanner and it works for leaflets, papers, business cards and so on (up to A4). 

Portronics ElectroPen

Rs 5,500 The ElectroPen converts any regular notepad into a digital one. There are two parts to it: the receiver (8 hour battery life with continuous use) and a digital pen (30 hours continuous use). You simply clip the receiver to a book or notepad and it will digitize everything you write. It can store 100 A4 pages before you need to transfer to a computer. As a bonus, it can also be used as a writing device or mouse with the receiver connected to a PC.

Boogie Board RIP

Rs 5,990 Ever thought of a million dollar idea, only to have lost it in a scribble somewhere? This is a device that lets you save all your scribbles ­ the screen lets you doodle or write anything you want and each page can be saved to the internal memory to be transferred to the computer later as a PDF. Tap one button and the screen will flash, erase and you can start again. The rechargeable battery typically lasts a week or so.

Google Location History:

Many Android users seem to be unaware that Android, by default, records a daily location and timestamp. All this data is accessible to you at any time via a personalized map from your Google account. Head to http:maps.google.comlocationhistory to view your movement details on a personalized map. This is only visible to you (or to anyone else who has your password). If you want to share this info, you can export the travel data to a KML file that can be viewed using Google Maps or Google Earth.

Hitesh Raj Bhagat & Karan Bajaj ET 012815