Detachable Printer for Your Notebooks

Who on earth needs printers these days? Well the answer is everybody! How? Having a hard copy of the data that you carry on your USB stick or laptop may be required quite often. At least, when you book tickets online and fail to carry a proof copy on the way.

A printer that could be clipped on to your laptop will not be a bad idea altogether. This is the beauty of this compact detachable printer designed by Hung Chih Wang. And how it works follows.

It is USB powered and is an inkjet printer. A detachable print head that could be clipped on to the back side of the display side of your laptop does the printing job on demand.

I personally feel that the printer itself is not obtrusive and only adds to the beauty of your laptop. If this brilliant design gets commercialised I fear that The Jungle of Amazon may get thinner.

Tiny Mic for Laptops

Do you work on a laptop? Yes? Then this must be an interesting gadget for you. A tiny Microphone. What is so special about it?

The size and the compact design. It just has the protruding 3.5mm connector and absolutely no cluttering wires. Can something be called more compact? Well I really don’t feel so.

And the features are superb. Having an omnidirectional head makes you turn it 360 degrees. It has a wider range of voice reception making you talk freely without any strain.

Check out the figures right here:

• Frequency Range: 100~5KHz
• Sensitiveness: -54 +/-3dB
• Connector: 3.5mm, gold plated

This light weight mic for laptops is easily affordable as it costs only $8.

Flexible Keyboard Withstands Stress

Bang! Another keyboard hit due to frustration. A knock on the forehead cant get the stress down. So why put your keyboard into trouble? If you still can’t control your stress you should better go for the stress withstanding keyboard.

No matter how hard you hit it, it still remains the same. You can even roll it or fold it to fit any small space. The next time you take it out it is still the same very much functional keyboard. The supreme flexibility is achieved by the quality silicon rubber of which it is made of.

This flexi keyboard from Chinavasion features:

• plug and play capability
• compatible with Microsoft operating systems up to Windows XP
• USB and PS/2 connectivity
• doesn’t require installation.
• 109 keys/buttons
• QWERTY standard
• works between -5 and +50 degrees Celsius.

The company claims this keyboard to be the indestructible and water resistant, dust proof and washable. Moreover it is a shock absorber, can keep your forehead in shape even after a strong bang. Spending $5.24 for such a multi-featured keyboard will be a great idea.

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Silent Keyboard Let You Sleep Peacefully After a Tiring Day

Hasn’t it often happened to you? You come late from work feeling tired and damn sleepy. When you are about to fly into dreams you hear that tick tuck tuck tick. None but your wife is typing an email to her friend about the new jewellery that she own. No matter how hard you try to sleep you will feel that the noise is echoing in your head. Those of you doesn’t want to lose the sleep because of the keyboard noise, here is some exciting news.

A silent Keyboard. No more tick ticks. No more tuck tucks. Get it installed on your home computer to grant an undisturbed sleep for everyone. This silent keyboard from Thanko owns more features to make it stand top from the likes.

This SIRE2SET named keyboard comes with 2 USB connections to connect it to two different pcs. The sliding switch on the keyboard lets you select the pc you want to work on. Also it is compatible with OS Windows 2000/XP/Vista, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later. Isn’t it wonderful?

The physical dimension of Thanko’s latest keyboard is 445 × 150 × 25mm and weighs just 540g. But there is a bad part to the new SIRE2SET from Thanko. It is available only in Japan for the time being. And the price is nearly $46.

Get Rid of Working Stress by Shifting to Mouldable Mouse

If you are someone who sits on your computer for a long while you must have experienced strain to wrist, fingers and other hand joins. Most of the contemporary ergonomically designed mice can’t live up to their stress reliever tag. Thankfully a bunch of brains have come up with a new model mouse which can change shape as and when pressure applied, leaving your hand at the least strain.

The Mouldable mouse takes shape that you want it to; making prolonged computing not a tough deal. This transforming shape does not affect the working of the mouse though. Like other contemporary mice, this one also comes with a right, left buttons and a touch sensitive scroll pad in form of stickers with built-in RFID.

At the base, it has full-recyclable PC/ABS plastic blend that houses the Printed Circuit Board, the laser optics and the batteries. The Mouldable Mouse, was designed by Lite-On Technology, P&C Design Center, as a lightweight and non-toxic modelling clay device covered with nylon and polyurethane to have moulding capabilities.

And this mouldable mouse concept has even won the Red Dot award for design concept 2007 in the Productivity and Work category.

World’s Most Powerful Dictionary

Digicube has launched their latest i-station UDIC in Korea. This is an electronic dictionary that features a unique preloaded set of 50 kinds of dictionaries and a robust multi-search engine.

More than the power it holds, the i-station UDIC also features

• 4.3-inch swiveling LCD touch screen
• qwerty keyboard
• supports TTS(Text to Speech)
• native speakers’ pronunciation
• translating service ‘i-TRANS’
• movie captioning service ‘Video DIC’.

This dictionary computer comes equipped with 30GB/60GB hard drive and is powered by an Alchemy AU 1250 CPU and DVE(Dynamic Video Engine). This multi featured e-dictionary should be available this month in Korea for a price of 398,000(KRW) for 30GB and 448,000(KRW) for 60GB.

Mickey, The Mouse on Your Mouse

When you think of Disney the first cartoon character that comes to your mind is Mickey for sure. Why not show your love to Mickey right there on your desktop? This is exactly what the brains behind this marvellous creation must have thought of - Mickey Mouse on the Mouse.

This optical mouse is from none other than Buffalo Corporation (Melcoinc) Japan. Now you can read Mickey cartoons from your desktop the instant you want them. Owning a Mickey Mouse and Mouse Pad could be the easiest way to grab attention among your classmates.

This Mickey Mouse features

• USB2.0/1.1(TypeA)
• 800dpi resolution
• Dimension of 60×31x100mm

The entire range known as BOMU-D, comes as attractive, sleek, colorful mouse and mouse pads with Mickey Mouse design. The 8 different models vary in weight from 49g (the ultra small model) to 78g.

It is compatible with PCs running on WindowsXP/2000/Me/98SE and Macs with MacOS 10.2. This will not cost you more than $52.75.

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Glowing Message Boards to Colour your Desktop

Be it your home or office, this write and glow message board can never let any of your messages unnoticed anymore. You can see that a note to your loved one on this board can attract her more to you.

The board emits neon like shine and can be used any number of times. This amazing message board is also water resistant. You can take it outdoor to jot down your baseball scores also. This gadget is made out of Perspex Panel with an aluminium base.

The board shines and is very catchy, tempting everyone to scribble down something. No wonder if you notice a hike in your cubicle population once the write and glow message board is installed at your desk. The board looks awesome even when nothing is written, making it perfect décor item.

Now add a Blu-Ray drive to your PC for less than $200

It seems Sony Electronics just decided to take advantage of current happenings in HD Format war by introducing this computer add-on Blu-Ray drive.

The new BDUX10S BD ROM drive uses SATA connectivity for faster data transfer. It can read DVDs at 8X and Blu-Ray discs at 2X speed.

Technical Specification of BDUX10S Blu-Ray Drive:

Drive Type: BD-Rom Drive
Form Factor: Internal Drive
Reading Capability: CD / DVD & BD at 40X, 8X and 2X respectively
Connectivity: Serial ATA (SATA)

This player comes with Cyberlink PowerDVD that supports Blu-Ray playback and regular DVD playback.

You can pre-order this drive at Amazon.com for $199.99. Amazon expects to ship this item by second week of February.

diNovo Mini – Tiny Keyboard from Logitech

Isnt it interesting to have a compact keyboard that fits the size of your palm? Logitech has unveiled a super compact keyboard that suits your fashion and style.

This tiny keyboard can take care of your internet browsing, gaming and tv control within your palm. The QWERTY keyboard comes with a circular touch pad that can be other wise your media center remote.

This special keyboard has backlight to improve the visibility in dark rooms. Backlight changes with the mode of functionality. Orange for touch pad mode and green for media center remote mode. The silver gloss with midnight black design gives it trendy looks.

This thumb operated mini keyboard from Logitech has a price of $149.99. Watch the downloaded movies in the pc on the big tv screen at the comfort of your bed using the diNovo Mini keyboard.

Lock Your Computer With Kidsafe

Kidsafe locks down the computer access in the most simplest and secure way. It’s very reliable and convenient than passwords. Though password appears to be very secure, they can be easily cracked or guessed by your loved ones.

After installation, it will always ask for the key to unlock your computer. Thus you can be assured that all your important data won’t get corrupted by your kids. The Kidsafe gadget can be plugged in via the USB port.

The beauty of kidsafe program is that it cannot be destroyed or uninstalled. It will stop booting your computer in safe mode also. Kidsafe will prevent booting the computer with bootable devices or cds. In essence, it can safeguard your computer from all possible access attempts by your kid.

Buy kidsafe for $60 now and protect your computer and kids.

USB Multimedia Remote Controller

Haven’t you wished for a remote controller to move to next song in the playlist? It’s indeed irritating to get to your pc each time to adjust the singing volume. For those irritated folks, here is a remote controller which takes over all multimedia operations on your pc or laptop.

This multimedia remote controller is very similar to Front Row for Mac. This one for Windows PCs allows you to play songs, flip photos, present your power point slides and watch DVD from a distance of maximum 30 feet.

This USB media remote also features:

• Arrow, Enter, Back and Page keys to navigate Windows Media Center and give PowerPoint presentations.
• Volume Controls to crank the volume up and down in any Windows Program. E.g. PowerPoint, Windows Media Player, RealPlayer, Power DVD, Winamp…
• Media Controls to Play, Pause, Fast Forward and Rewind videos, DVD, live and recorded TV, even music.

This remote is never lost and is easily available as it is stored right inside your laptop in the PCMCIA slot. The design of the controller makes it protrude slightly from the slot making it easy to pull out.

This USB remote control offers support to Windows Vista, XP, 2000 and ME. You can even set the function of a key as one of your choice. The remote is powered by Lithium battery and comes with a dimension of 85.8×54.2×5.0mm. You can own this multimedia remote for $30 from USB Geek.

ASUS EEE PC – The Real Notebook

The EEE is defined as Easy to learn, Easy to work, Easy to play.

Asus EEE PC Specification:

• Display: 7-inch widescreen LCD display with max 800*480-pixel resolution.
• Hardware: Intel mobile CPU & Chipset
• Operating System: Linux, Windows XP compatible
• Connectivity: 100Mbps Ethernet port & Wi-Fi G support
• Memory: 512 MB (DDR2)
• Storage: Flash memory at 8GB, 4GB, and 2GB capacities.
• Camera: 0.3 Mega Pixel
• Audio Features: Hi-Definition audio with built-in stereo speakers and microphone
• Other Features: Card reader, 3 USB 2.0 ports and QWERTY Keyboard
• Dimension: 6.3 Inch * 8.9 Inch * 1.3 inch
• Weight: 0.92 kg

However, this PC lacks one of the most common needed feature of blue tooth connectivity.

Because of the use of semi-conductor flash memory instead of regular hard disks; this notebook can work for about 3.5 hrs without re-charge. Another advantage of this type of memory would be its speed. Since there are no moving parts, ASUS EEE PC loads faster than any comparable notebook.

ASUS EEE PC is available in different versions depending on the storage space, useful RAM and other additional features.

For more details, please check out official EEE PC website.

OptiWind Mouse - Bye Bye Sweaty Hands

Finally, a gadget that literally cools you! (Ahem… your hands actually ;-)) Yes, this optical mouse has a fan inside it that will blow air to your hands, thus keeping it cool.

This ergonomically designed optical mouse connects through its USB interface and has a switch to turn the fan on/off.

Technical specifications of this mouse:

• 800dpi optical sensor.
• Cooling fan with switch.
• USB connectivity.
• 3-button wheel mouse.

Targeted at avid computer users including gamers and frequent internet surfers, this optical-wind mouse is priced at $22.

Cybook Gen3 – The eBook Reader

Don’t you remember the good old days when you used to wait for monthly comic books? And regular fights with your siblings followed, just to read it first. Things have changed a lot now, and you can read everything online. The vast availability of readable contents has of course increased the potential of reading community. But surely for many, reading from paper is more comfortable than reading it on your pc.

It will definitely be a good idea if you get to read all the eBooks with a feel of reading conventional paper books. Thanks to Bookeen for this eBook reader.

Cybook Gen3 is an ePaper reading device built on E-Ink technology. The new display technology makes reading from electronic display at the comfort of reading from paper.

The display specification follows:

• 6″ E Ink® Vizplex screen
• [4.8"x3.6"- 122mmx91mm]
• 600×800 pixels, 166 dpi
• B&W, 4 grayscale
• Daylight readable
• No backlight
• Portrait and landscape mode

Cybook’s functionality extends to more than reading ePapers. You can even listen to audios via this using the 2.5 mm stereo jack. Also enjoy the freedom 8000 page flips with a single recharge of the battery.

This beautifully built gadget has an internal memory that amounts to 64MB. Extra storage can be accommodated in a 2GB SD card memory. Cybook offers external connectivity to USB memory as well.

Cybook comes at a price around $350.