Although tablets existed before Apple introduced the iPad, they’ve certainly gone a long way to turning it into a full-fledged niche of its own and no longer simply a minor laptop variation. Of course, no electronics company wants to ‘miss out’ on the possibility to rake in some dough on the back of this hot new trend and to that end, dozens — yes dozens — of companies are releasing products this year.
It may seem a little strange that the maker of Blackberrys (Research in Motion or RIM) is releasing a tablet, but that’s the strange world that Apple has generated. And so today, RIM announced their Blackberry PlayBook, a 7” LCD, 1024 x 600 touch screen tablet with full multi-touch and gesture support.
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Toshiba has a pretty cool variation on the netbook concept – the Libretto has 2 touchscreens which fold out like a newspaper or a laptop.
The 1.8lb clamshell Libretto W105 runs Windows 7 on both 7″ widescreens which rotate automatically into landscape or portrait modes using its built-in 3D accelerometer.
The Libretto comes with an Intel Pentium processor, 2 GB of fast DDR3 memory, a 62 GB solid state drive, microSD/SDHC memory card reader, 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth.
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Price: from $1599.99
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The LaCie MosKeyto is truly small indeed, measuring less than 20mm (less than 0.8″) and weighing less than 10g (0.35oz) and that’s even with a cap. It comes in 4GB and 8GB sizes, and LaCie teamed up with Wuala to give you an additional 4GB online storage for sharing, etc.
The MosKeyto is USB 2.0 compliant and works with Windows and Macs.
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Price: 4GB: $17.99, 8GB: $27.99
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What a great concept. This power strip bends and pivots (hence the name) so that you can get all those weird-shaped power adapters plugged in without having to skip an outlet or 2.
PivotPower is another community-developed product over at Quirky. It has 6 outlets, surge protection, and comes in versions for both American (110v) and European (240v) markets.
This is a much nicer version of the power strip liberator or the Power Squid.
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Price: $25
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Microsoft has a handful of brand new webcams in their LifeCam series, that are capable of 720p HD video. The HD-5000 and HD-6000 webcams are 30 fps cameras with auto focus and TrueColor technology.
Naturally, they’re optimized for Windows Live, but hardly exclusively. The HD-6000 is geared just for notebooks and has a 360 lens rotation feature, so you can spin it around to capture people or scenes behind your laptop.
The HD-5000 can be used for either desktops or portables.
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Price: HD-5000: $35.31, HD-6000: $40.37
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Treat your Apple iPad to this messenger sling featuring a windowed iPhone pocket and Cocoon’s GRID-IT!™ system for organizational storage in a vertical design with an adjustable shoulder strap.
Channel your inner Inspector Gadget with the GRID-IT!™ system which is a rubberized woven elastic object retention system for gadget organization providing versatile organization with endless configurations designed to hold items firmly in place. The back of GRID-IT!™ doubles as a mouse pad.
Cocoon’s Gramercy iPad Sling is the most versatile organization system in a sling.
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Price: $29.99
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This is one of those no-batteries-needed ‘gadgets’ for your battery-hungry gadget, your laptop. I loved the AViiQ Laptop Stand the minute I saw it in a photo. It is just so sleek-looking with its European design sensibility. Of course, the fact that it folds up into a 1/4-inch thick board is what put me over the top. I took the AViiQ for a test drive and here’s what I found.
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Apple has just revamped their iMac line of desktop computers. The new 21.5″ and 27″ iMacs now feature Intel Core dual-core i3 and i5 and quad-core i5 and i7 processors. They also have new discrete ATI Radeoon HD graphics cards.
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Just today, I was explaining to someone why they needed to encrypt or at least password-protect their USB flash drive. There is one simple, overarching reason – if you lose it, someone else has easy access to all the data on your thumb drive, and they’re easy to lose/forget about. …
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