05/18/2004   English German

  Edition # 50  
San Francisco, 05-18-2004


Figure [1]: The Olympus VN-900 Voice-Recorder is a very good device.

Michael Ha, here's another crazy idea! However, the best ideas come to me in the most impossible situations and if I don't write them down immediately, I forget them as quickly as they came. That's why I've been accustomed for years to jot down any jolt of brain activity immediately. Of course, I don't always have pen and paper with me and when I'm cycling through the city or creativity strikes the train, it's hard to write it down. That's why I've been carrying a small digital dictaphone with me for some time now. Everywhere: on trips, in the car, on the bike, on the plane and even in the gym.

I can quickly record short messages on the Olympus VN-900 voice recorder, "the Digi", as I call it, then it digitally captures my words in amazing quality. It stores them until I have time to transform them into projects and enter them into my calendar. I can operate the Digi with one hand without looking and it even stores the date and time of the recording. And it's only slightly bigger than a disposable lighter, much smaller than even the smallest mobile phones and only costs about 35 dollars. It stores up to 100 messages, up to 30 minutes, but no one has that many ideas. And the batteries last forever. Good thing I recently recorded a note to promote the Digi as a top product in the newsletter! And if I look at the illustration photo I just took, I wonder if I should work as a hand model for the advertising industry. What do you say?

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