10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year - New York Times

10 Greatest Gadget Ideas of the Year - New York Times


David Pogue


SanDisk's better idea is to take the memory card out of the camera and stick it directly into your computer's U.S.B. port.

Thanks to Palm, then, for adding VCR-style buttons on the touch screen of its coming Treo 700W cellphone. You just tap Skip, Play, Delete, or whatever.

It took Microsoft, of all companies, to make getting your own dot-com name free. Its new Office Live online software suite for small businesses, now in testing, will offer a domain name, Web site and e-mail accounts free. Yes, you'll see ads on the screen (unless you pay for the adless version) - but plenty of people won't mind viewing them in exchange for a free, professional-looking Web presence.