It’s done! Return to school has recently passed for some, in progress for others. The wallet is ready, the backpack full of everything that will be necessary to resume the way to school or office. In the technological world, today, productivity has become a central theme and everything contributes to improving it, either with ia on PC, tools and software or small devices to slide in your pocket.
Dictophone, tablet, reader, headphones or bicycles, Tech & Co offers its selection of products that can help you attack the school.
PLAUD Note Pro: The ally of everyday life
For students, researchers, journalists or any other trade that requires a notes (teacher, health, law, education, etc.), here is a certain asset in the pocket. Plaud.ai is a new company that gave a new life to the dictaphone sliding the AI and its asset procession. The PLAUD Note Pro is the new version. Still in the format of the bank card, it offers more possible uses, efficiency in the treatment and autonomy of ia than the previous model, says Plaud, already highly effective.
The device is fine, light (30 g) and elegant with its textured aluminum design. A MAGSAFE card support is provided to fix it on the back of an iPhone or another smartphone with the magnetic support to stick. Simply activate to record your conversation, maintenance, conference, lessons … your voice capture now takes 5 meters. Take advantage of the intelligent detection of the votes with the possibility of identifying them to find themselves better in their notes, automatic recording of telephone calls (not forgetting to warn your interlocutor!), Before providing a transcription and a summary note with the main angles addressed.
PLAUD Note Pro Embacked Plaud Intelligence, a multimodal AI system that combines existing solutions (GPT-5, Gemini, Claude) to obtain the best contextual understanding. It will soon be enriched by the ability to manage combined multimodal entries (texts, images, voice). It has 64 GB of storage, with an autonomy of 50 hours in the recording. Plaud Intelligence 3.0 (available in October) is also based on more than 2,000 possible transcription models for their audio files (maintenance, conference, medical report, questions and answers, Memo, etc.).
Price: 189 euros: Currently Pre -Pedido and Available in early October.
Paperslate: Smart Notes Taking
In the notebook market with electronic ink, notable is a place of choice. But France also has its representative: Dogoste. It offers a large tablet, a little smaller than a paper sheet (168.2 x 237.3 x 6 mm) with a 10-inch E -ink screen and a fairly light weight (388 g). Paperslate is accompanied by a rather reactive multifunction pencil that promises a very natural sensation of writing (4,096 pressure levels).
Paperslate is also based on an intelligent transcription service that allows handwritten notes to become dynamic content and organized in Word or PDF formats. AI detects titles, paragraphs or lists. It is even possible to translate the text into several languages, write down and solve mathematical equations, tables, diagrams or chronological friezes. The device, thanks to AI, can transform everything into useful documents. The device can be integrated into Android, share its content by email or cloud.
Two versions are offered: Classic paper to 350 euros and the Pro Papers (430 euros) that adds more memory (64 GB against 32 GB), integrated background light and IPX8 stamp.
PowerBank Xtreme X-Power Max: Full of energy for the day
With its 27,000 mAh battery and its load at 140 W in USB-C (PD 3.1), the X-Power Max allows you to quickly recharge your MacBook and your iPhone or any other device on one of the three USB ports available. The great capacity allows to recharge many PC in less than an hour and up to 10 times by iPhone. An embedded screen shows the remaining battery level, the load speed of connected devices, the external battery temperature to avoid overheating.
Price: 130 euros
Liseuse Amazon Kindle (2024): spend time on the road without grabbing
An opinionway studio for Kindle recently showed that 15-30 year olds read on average 17 pounds per year, under the impulse of influential people and social networks. And almost one in two now opts for an electronic reader. The models have modernized, improved the quality of their reading screen. All without counting the weight and compactness of the device.
With its green fashion Matcha, the Amazon Kindle Reader offers a good model to start. The size of a pocket book (6 -inch screen), offers an anti -reflected screen very pleasant, with adjustable lighting, improved contrast and excellent autonomy (up to 6 weeks). It has 16 GB of storage, thousands of books, audiobooks, magazines, etc. Everything can be loaded from the Kindle store in the reader, the Amazon site or the Kindle application on the mobile device (titles sent to the reader connected to Wi -Fi).
Price: 110 euros
Ultra Connected Lumos Bicycle Helmet: To run safe
With its multiple LEDs positioned at 360 °, it allows the cyclist to look from afar, at all times. It has integrated controllable indicators through the remote control provided, the smartphone or the Apple Watch. The ultra lumos incorporates the MIPS protection system that absorbs shocks in case of an accident.
Light and comfortable, with multiple vents, the helmet has many connected functions, such as automatic lighting, depending on the environmental brightness, a rechargeable battery in USB-C
Three sizes are offered (from 51 to 65) to adapt to children and adults.
Price: 150 euros
Oxford and Scribzee Notebooks: To always have their notes on oneself
The Oxford Statnsery brand launched a few years ago from the “connected” notebooks that work with the Scribzee application. This allows you to scan your notes written by hand, save them to easily find contained in your smartphone, computer or tablet. It works thanks to the reference points on each page. The files are automatically classified in the application and organized by folders. Everything can be easily shared. A way of reviewing in transport or anywhere, in its minimum form and congestion.
Price: 2 to 10 euros per notebook.
A connected label to lose anything
In order not to lose its belongings, a connected label is also an ally of choice. There are several brands, such as Chipolo, Invoxia or Tiles, but manufacturers such as Apple (Airtags) or Samsung (Smarttag) have also been successfully. Connected at a short distance Bluetooth and other similar protocols, they join their belongings or slide into their backpacks, suitcases, wallets, bicycles …
You can follow them from the complementary application or the location of your smartphone. Some models make it possible to track with great precision thanks to its real -time geolocation, sometimes thanks to the help of the smartphones of the same brand. It is also possible to be alerted in case of a defined area or the elimination of the smartphone.
Price: count from 20 to 150 euros depending on the desired model and features.
No headphones helmet (1) to isolate yourself with class
To combat noise in transport or be able to concentrate better in your work, the reduction of active noise becomes an asset of headphones and headphones in the ear. Among the new high -flying players at a more affordable price, nothing launched the headphones (1), a helmet with an original design with its square transparent witnesses and their very premium aluminum arch.
Designed with the KEF British Audio Specialist, the headphones (1) offers a spatialized sound with the monitoring of the movements of the head, an excellent reduction of active noise, high-resolution audio quality with or without wireless (LDAC, HI-RES, HI-RES WIRELESS …) E IA Functions (vocal assistant, voice improvement, etc.).
Price: 299 euros
Shokz Open Run Mini
For the followers of the race, but not that, who do not want to be cut from the world around them, are the helmets with bone driving. Shokz draws its sports version for small heads with the Open Mini (available in the normal version). A very particular and minimalist format, Ultra Light (26 g), which clings to sports headphones, but whose purposes come to land in their temples. The sound will be aimed at its auditory duct due to bone resonance. The brand has improved the quality of stereo audio that allows you to enjoy an excellent listening while you perceive the noises around you without shame.
The Shokz Open Run Mini resist perspiration and rain (IP67). They are flexible, but resistant thanks to their titanium structure. They have an autonomy of 8 hours with fast charging in USB-C (10 minutes to listen 1h30).
Price: 140 euros: Available in black or lilac for the mini, black or blue version in the standard version.
ASUS VIVOBOOK S14 OLED
This ultra -navigable versatile has a beautiful 140 Hz 14 -inch OLED screen in a compact, fine (1.3 cm closed) and light chassis (1.3 kg), easy to slide in its bag. And add a light touch with its customizable RGB keyboard. He has an Intel Core Ultra (2nd gen) or AMD Ryzen processor that allows him to support the IA co -pilot+ PC functions to accompany him in his productivity, and runs under Windows 11. But he mainly has a long autonomy of up to fifteen hours. The Vivobook S14 is based on 16 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage. Originally sold 1,200 euros, Vivobook S14 saw its price seriously at the beginning of the school year.
Price: From 800 euros
Source: BFM TV
