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Pulse
$18.97
This is a really very super keen product. I had this CD once and lost it leaving me feeling like the dpressed melted chocolate bar. Now I ordered it throuigh this very nice merchant and am happy.

What's more is it is the 2 disc version with all the favorites, Real McCoy, Haddaway, Ace of Base and even CoCo the old Satanist. Oh wait that's another CD. D'oh!

But all in all I would recommend this merchant and this CD. It is a product you could set your watch by.

Livescribe 2GB Pulse Smartpen
$169.95
I've had the 2GB pulse smartpen since the summer and it's been an amazing tool. Why didn't they have this when I was in undergrad??? It's a great versatile device that is helpful as what it is (an actual pen), but with the added features of being able to record audio at the same time, and to have all this stored in traditional form (physical notebook) and digitally, you can't beat it. The company who makes it (Livescribe) also just opened a beta app store where you can get travel phrases in Spanish or Japanese for example. Having been in Tokyo this summer and was unable to communicate with a lot of natives, it would have come in incredibly useful as a language tool.
Some negatives about the functionality of it are more fiction than fact. For example, "what about when it runs out of ink?" There are refill ink cartridges that are inexpensive and easy to change. And "I don't want to have to buy expensive paper." Notebooks for the pen are the same price relatively as buying a normal one from a college bookstore or a Borders. And dot paper can also be printed free from the Livescribe website. And "I'm not going to spend $100 and something dollars for a PEN." It's more of a digital audio recorder or a computer than a pen but unless you see it in person and try it out, you might have that perception.
I really like being able to save everything digitally and have the comfort that my recordings will be accessible whenever I want. Being able to share the "pencast" sessions with friends on Facebook has also been really helpful to classmates who missed an important class or study session.
Again, I really like that the company that makes this is so forward-thinking to have applications and be constantly coming up with new ways to make this relevant to college students, as well as professionals and the everyday person.
But seriously, as a communications undergraduate major who loved my digital audio recorder to no end as an editor on the campus newspaper, why didn't this exist when I was in college???

Pulse Platinum
$18.97
I have purchased this CD new from a store and have noticed that there is a defect in track #6 by Snap! Rhythm Is A Dancer. During playback of this song you can hear varying degrees of the music fading in and out. This doesn't seem to affect the vocals. It mostly consists of the Percussion, cymbals, high-hats which sounds to be choppy and inconsistent. Listen to this CD and you'll hear it begin at 49 seconds into the song.

Finger Pulse Oximeter Octive Tech 300C with Easy-Carry Soft Case
$121.99
I am surprised at all the positive 4 star reviews of this product. I came by tonight to figure out if I was the only one who thought this oximeter was painfully slow to converge on a reading. It takes minutes for the SPO2 to converge, and in the meantime, I can only hope that second by second by pulse rate doesn't jump around as much as it says it is.

Also, I think the display drivers are slow and flicker making it that much more painful to use.

It's also not apparent from the photos but this oximeter is meant to be read by an observer, not by the user. That is, when it is on your finger, the display is upside down, so as to be read by the nurse, not by you.

I think I am going to review its competitors -- it is worth it to me even to spend a bit more to get a device that is easy to use and not one that I'm going to hate using.