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Samsung SpinPoint M7 rugged hard drive for notebook

Samsung have announced a new rugged hard drive, the SpinPoint M7, which is designed for use in notebook. This rugged hard drive is able to stand shocks and knocks, and keeps your data well-protected, while you’re moving around with your laptop.

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Diatec USB trackpad adds multi-touch capabilities to your PC

If you’re jealous of those who own MacBooks or iPhone with the multi-touch capabilities which respond to the touches of more than one finger, such as pinch, swipe etc. You can now even have your PC to do so, by simply hooking up the Diatec USB trackpad.

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3D Mouse: 3DConnexion SpacePilot Pro

3D Connexion has released their latest 3D mouse, the 3DConnexion Spacepillot Pro, which is specially designed for the CAD designers.

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Instant-on computers with zero boot time

Rebooting your computer is painful as you have to wait at least over a few minutes or more for the computer to boot into Windows. This is why I’ll always leave my laptop on standby mode to reduce the needs to boot from the start again.

But maybe not far in the future, instant-on computers with zero boot-time would be possible. As researchers at Cornell University, Penn State University and Northwestern University, have found the ferroelectric materials used in today’s smart cards for ATM can be added into common computer transistors, which could produce computers that have zero boot-time.

Ferroelectric materials provide low-power, high-efficiency electronic memory. Smart cards use the technology to instantly reveal and update stored information when waved before a reader. A computer with this capability could instantly provide information and other data to the user.

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Papershow instantly transfers scribbles on paper to a computer screen

Papershow is a presentation system that instantly transfers what you draw or scribble on paper to the computer screen. The system comes with a unique notebook of paper, a pen and a USB dongle.

Plug the USB dongle into the USB port of your computer, and it”ll then pair up and communicate with the pen via Bluetooth. What is scribbled on the special Papershow paper by the user is then immediately shown on the computer screen.

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Texte-ile chair made from recycled keyboards

Texte-ile – a unique armchair that is made from recycled computer keyboards. The designer, Dante Bonuccelli and Lamm should have put lots of effort into sourcing all this big quantity of keyboards for making this armchair.

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I-O data’s 26mm Thick NAS

With a few of the USB to NAS adapters surfaced in the market, NAS (Network Attached Storage) manufacturers may face a challenge for their NAS products. If you’re one who opts for physical size of a device rather than the performance and features, surely, getting a USB to NAS adapter is a better choice for you than getting a real NAS device, which will take up more space.

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Yellow Bulldozer PC case mod

Russian modder, Megalex, has built this cool PC case mod, and it’s called the Yellow Bulldozer PC. Inside this cool PC case are an Asus P3B-F motherboard, an Intel P3 700 MHz, 500GB Seagate hard drive and a 512MB ram, which are not that impressive compared to the case itself.

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Wireless USB to HDMI converter : Atlona HDAiR

Atlona has made it possible to stream high-def videos from your computer’s USB port wirelessly to HD display. They’ve announced their wireless USB to HDMI/VGA converter, called the HDAiR (HD content in the air).

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Electric shock mouse

The Electric shock mouse is little too late for the April Fool. But it may still be nice to have to make fun of someone at your work place. This mouse is claimed to give little electric shock while someone first clicks on it.

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