$170 • www.warpia.com
If you want to watch Web-enabled video on your television, you can buy a number of gadgets that will hook up directly to your TV set. But most of these offer only a narrow hallway of content and do not allow full access to the Internet or a Web browser.
Now Warpia offers a device that plugs directly into a laptop and lets you stream everything wirelessly from the computer to a television or computer monitor.
There are two models; both allow full sharing of the computer screen.
The main device, a wireless USB audio and video display adapter set, costs $170 and is designed specifically to stream content from a computer directly to a high-definition television.
The video quality is crisp and clear, as long as your laptop is within line of sight of the TV module and not too far away. Quality drops off around 30 feet. Although this version works only on PCs, a Mac version is to be available in the coming months.
Alternately, for those who want to use a computer monitor to watch content, the Easy Dock, which costs $150, comes with a USB adapter set that allows a computer to stream anything wirelessly from a laptop or MacBook to a larger external monitor.
3 NEW COOLPIX CAMERAS
$250 and up • www.nikon.com
Nikon is introducing three Coolpix point-and-shoot cameras: the P7000 for demanding photographers, a midrange S8100 with a 10X zoom, and the sleek touch-screen S80. The $500 P7000 is aimed at those who want DSLR-like control and features. Its 10.1-megapixel sensor has larger photo diodes than most point-and-shooters, to deliver better low-light images. The camera has a 7.1X zoom with a range of 28 mm to 200 mm and a new feature that lets users define favorite focal lengths.
The $250 Coolpix S8100 employs a new backside-illuminated CMOS sensor to deliver fast shooting speeds (10 frames per second) and can capture full 1,080p video. It also has a 10X optical zoom with a range of 30 to 300 mm.
