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Twenty-first century scholastics comes of age with the latest advancement in electronic note-taking: the Logitech IO2 Digital Pen writes like a normal pen, remembers up to 40 pages worth of writing or drawing and copies the notes to your computer hard drive once docked in its cradle, $149.99, CompUSA (8855 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 468-3838); Office Max (1000 S Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, 736-0215). |
| Why blend in, when iJackets come in a variety of fun designs to make you and your music stand out, $15-$20, from Plum (5430 Magazine Street, 897-3388, www.plumneworleans.com). |
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Help your college-bound kid buff up on those SAT words with the Franklin LM6000b Speaking Language Master, a digital speaking dictionary with 300,000 definitions, 500,000 thesaurus entries, a grammar guide, 12 word games, and ClariSpeech technology that speaks words and definitions aloud, $129.99, available at KMart (1400 S. Clearview Pkwy., 733-5290); Office Depot (9851 I-10 Service Road, 243-2127; 1429 St. Charles Ave., 561-8846). |
| Want to give your budding scholar a digital organizer without spending an adult-sized price? The new Palm Z22 handheld has a large memory to store lots of addresses, phone numbers, appointments and to-do lists and has a HotSync cradle for backing up data to a hard drive. It also has a note pad function for digital note-taking, $99, available at Best Buy (1601 Westbank Expwy., Harvey, 364-0411; 6205 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 780-0172); Circuit City (4945 Lapalco Blvd., Marrero, 348-2279; 2421 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Kenner, 467-3339); Office Max (1000 S. Clearview Pkwy., Harahan, 736-0215); CompuUSA (8855 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 468-3838). |
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Keep all that high-tech school gear safe with a tech-friendly backpack like Jansport's Interface, which has a detachable shoulder strap, Shockshield laptop protection, external water bottle and cell phone mesh pockets, and as many other zipper-pockets and organizers as a kid can handle, $79.97, widely available in a host of stores, including Office Depot, Office Max, Academy Sports, J.C. Penney, Perret's Army Surplus and others. |
| This sleek, affordable, compact and portable speaker system is made to work with any iPod or MP3 player using a standard headphone jack. They use twin neodymium micro drivers to make the audio clear, come with a deluxe travel case that holds the cables, AC adapter and speakers, plus a cradle design that holds your iPod cables for charging and syncing; the speakers also can be powered by four AA batteries or an AC adapter by Logitech, $79.99, available at CompUSA (8855 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 468-3838); Office Max (1000 S Clearview Pkwy., Metairie, 736-0215). |
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Like a mobile cyber center, the T-Mobile Sidekick 3 lets you talk, text message, email or use instant messaging as well as surfing the Internet. It also has a built in MP3 player for music on the move, a 1.3 megapixel camera, games, expanded memory capability, Bluetooth wireless technology, a personal information manager and a built-in QWERTY keypad, plus the lithium ion battery gives you about four and a half hours of talk time (or about three days standby) before it needs charging, $299.99, available at T-Mobile (1121 Manhattan Blvd., Harvey, 362-9162; 400 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, 834-1174; Office Depot (1500 Westbank Expwy., Harvey, 368-9731; 1429 St. Charles Ave., 561-8846); Wal-Mart (1901 Tchoupitoulas St., 522-4142). |
