Cool toys for the outdoor Techie
- Filed under: Techie Toys'n'Games
- Date: Jun 11,2008
My Sister and her Hubby recently got me a really cool Monocular. This got me looking into other fun techie toys and I came across opticsplanet.net’s website.
OpticsPlanet is one of the leading optics suppliers with a wide selection of sport optics, tactical and military gear, microscopes, and even Prescription Sunglasses! They have a huge selection of binoculars, spotting scopes, night vision, telescopes, rangefinders, laser sights, flashlights, tripods, radar guns, digital camera binoculars and much more!
One of the things I find the most interesting is the DIGITAL BINOCULARS. Normally, when you go hiking, bird watching, geocaching, or camping, you might take a high end digital camera or expensive binoculars. Instead, take an inexpensive digital binoculars camera and capture the moment while you enjoy the beauty of nature. Integrated Digital Camera binoculars not only bring objects closer, binoculars digital camera let you take digital photo pictures, and, with many models, capture video, that you can share with friends, send to relatives, and keep a memory for years to come.
OpticsPlanet’s site is a great place for people to explore, learn about their hobbies and find the best gear to suit their needs. The site has a Best Price Guarantee offers Free UPS Shipping on most orders over $29.95. Check it out !
Asterisk, is a FREE, opensource software to make your own phone system. It has been around for many years, and at this point has proven itself to be reliable and flexible. Asterisk allows enterprise level PBX solutions to be available to the average small business at a fraction of the cost of regular proprietary PBX systems that have been available on the market until now.
Keep in mind, these are just a FEW of the features that I think are really fun. This system has all the usual things phone systems have : Paging, conference calls, transfers, Music on Hold, Company Directory, etc … Until now, phone systems and voicemail systems were 2 different boxes that worked together, but are sold seperately. For the same price, this system has voicemail built in.
You may think i’ve been going on a little much about this, but it’s for a reason. Obviously, all office phone systems need to be connected to phone LINES (from the local telephone company) in order to be able to call any phone that’s not connected to your own system. Voip Phone systems are great. Voip Phone lines however, still leave much to be desired. Most offices computer networks run at ATLEAST 100 m/bits, the actual connection to the internet however is usually 6-7 m/bits. (Small / Medium sized businesses). Since Voip Phone lines are provided via your internet connection, i’ve often noticed it can get choppy during calls if the internet connection is struggling to keep up with other people’s internet traffic. Also, if your internet connection is lost, so are all your phone lines. Business owners tend to frown when that happens.
GeoCaching is essentially a real-life treasure hunt where people use a GPS to find hidden “caches” that are all over the world. This isn’t really a new game, so when I say “all over the world” it doesn’t mean that there’s a cache somewhere near you, and then you have to drive an hour to the next cache ; chances are, there are LOTS of cache’s near you. If you live in a major city, there ARE TONS of caches within walking distance.
