Leo Laporte's 2005 Gadget Guide

By Leo Laporte and Michael Miller

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789732084
• ISBN13: 9780789732088
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Que
• Length: 289 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

More Stuff Than I Could Imagine

A Big Question: First, what does this fellow consider gadgets to be. Answer, there are hundreds of gadgets here, far too many to mention, but they fall into seven categories: Computer Gadgets -everything from speakers, to mice, to a little fan that plugs into your USB port. Portable Gadgets - mostly stuff like PDA's and things to plug into them, but also portable players (music and video), GPS Devices, a robot vacuum cleaner and a robot dog - no, the robot vacuum cleaner does not clean up after the dog. Digital Photography Gadgets - Cameras, sure, but lots and lots of other stuff from 3-D attachments to filters, cleaning kits and viewers. Home Movie Gadgets - More cameras, and then more cool stuff like video mixer, software, video capture devices. Home Audio/Video Gadgets - No cameras this time, but media hubs, jukebox, recorders, home theater, satellite radio systems. Telephone Gadgets - Some really neat new phones, headsets, hand cranked power adapter. Game Gadgets - controllers of course, but also adapters, switches, even a specially designed game chair. Automotive Gadgets - GPS, sound, rear view TV, and a data logger that will talk to your cars computer. I wonder where he could have found all this stuff.

Independent recommendations

2005 is coming up fast, so Laporte and Miller have brought out this book, just before the holiday season. Some of you will certainly enjoy just thumbing through these pages, and trusting to serendipity to be your guide. All the pages are in full colour, and the product photos and textual descriptions are very attractively laid out. In some ways, the book reminds me of a Sharper Image catalog. But the authors are independent of the vendors. So the product descriptions should be more reliable than in a typical vendor's catalog. There may be biases in the choices of products. But as Laporte says in the Introduction, the biases are strictly what caught his fancy, and not some vendor's promptings.

Excellent

Leo Laporte knows so much about Technology and doesn't use all the "technical talk" when he describes it to people therefore enabling us to understand what Technology can do for all of us these Days. In this book Leo has several different catergories of "gadgets" (he doesn't like that word lol) and reviews a few from each category then makes his pick on what is the best value in that particular section. Due to the fact that Leo is not as of now on TV in the US his books and his weekend Radio Show are the only ways that I'm able to get to listen to him and read about the products that he likes. So Go Buy this Book and I'm sure you'll enjoy it! Great Job on this book Leo! - Ryan_Ly (KFI Chat)