The price tag reduces the temptation

Jul 9, 2007 08:07 GMT  ·  By

Say goodbye to the large sized Sherlock Holmes-like magnifier glasses. Many people would need this device when reading, sending SMSes or doing all sorts of activities that demand eagle eyes.

Nemo is not the first company to release the digital magnifier; Vision Max, AverVision and Taxacom have also tried the market with a couple of digital items, all of them being marketed with decent price tags. This is not the case of Nemo.

The Nemo digital magnifier is designed to be compact enough so that you can take the device in the suitcase wherever you go, mostly since we encounter small text and small price tags at places like the market, the grocery store and more. Apart from the futuristic PMP like design, the magnifier has a few special features, one of them being the freeze frame option, which just like on a digital camera, lets a person freeze the magnifier on one spot, so that the user can focus solely on something really difficult to read.

Besides that, the magnifier delivers basic magnification of 4.5 to 9 X, that appears on the built-in 4-inch anti-glare LCD screen. Not to mention you can pick one of six modes when viewing the magnifier, such as: color, black and white, positive, negative or in a wide variety of colored background.

All in all, the device brings big magnification in a small portable package. The only downside of this is the price tag, which seems to be a magnified 900 bucks a pop! That's right, the Nemo digital magnifier costs 900 bucks. After all, it doesn't even play MP3 player or slideshow images.

I would advise you to get an eye exam and some D&G glasses, or even some dandy contacts to add some extra sex appeal to your sight. Poor Sherlock, with his deerstalker hat and his magnifying glass, just imagine how many cases he would have solved, had he afforded the Nemo magnifiers!