With the amount of data we download and go through each day, it is no wonder that we run out of bytes faster than we get hungry. There is virtually a never ending list of torrents that we want on our hard drives along with song after song, that even a 320GB hard drive fills up pretty fast before we realize it. What is the home user to do other than purchase one portable hard drive after another while building up a collection of DVDs? There is a solution from Hammer Storage that offers a brief moment of respite - the myshare external hard drive.

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I can’t say I’ve ever suffered from cold knees whilst working but it’s good to know that if I ever do get struck down with such an ailment there is a USB solution, Warmmi USB Heating Knee Pads.

I’m guessing that the Warmmi would also work on cold elbows, another occupational hazard of all bloggers.

Further info and available to buy from vavolo for ~$20, thanks Cassily.

Even optical mice don’t work particularly well on a shag pile carpet (I often “work” whilst lying down). So here’s an answer the aerial mouse, works as both a regular mouse but can also be turned upside own and used in the air.

The mouse detects which mode it is being used in and adjusts itself accordingly otherwise your cursor would move in the opposite direction to what you were expecting (now that would take some getting used to).

You can get the USB Wireless Space Mouse EZ (phrew) for Rare Mono for $35.67.

For those of us gadgetheads who have long lived in peaceful co-existence with our Internet connections, we have sometimes become so attached to it that we tend to check our e-mail every 5 minutes only to find nothing but spam on physical enlargement programs and financial schemes. This is possible if you have an EV-DO connection, but the poorer folk who cannot afford the exorbitant monthly fee, they will just have to settle for free WiFi that is generously provided by Starbucks and other commercial establishments. If you ever need to find that crucial WiFi hotspot, there is no better device to do so than the Linksys Wireless-G USB Network Adapter with Wi-Fi Finder.

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CeBIT 2007 has ended today, on March 21, and so our News rounds of this tech event will be finished today as well. In this last day one of the coolest devices was found, a USB flash drive.

i-Disk Diamond

But this isn’t a normal USB pen, the dimensions make it a one of a kind on the market only measuring 26.8 x 12.2 x 1.9mm. The small device is called i-Disk Diamond and made by Pretec, it can hold 2GB of data and support both Windows and Mac OS recent versions.

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If you’re crazy about notebooks and games, Dicota has some interesting news for you. The Beat Mini Gamepad was announced at CeBIT 2007 and is a perfect solution for all your on the road gaming needs. This folding USB gamepad controller was specially designed for notebooks and has a directional pad and 4 buttons.

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After talking about the meivo display on round 1 of CeBIT 2007 news the time has come to talk about other displays:

Asus PG211

The screen on this LCD display measures 22-inches, and in case you can’t tell it is suppose to work in coordination with your computer only, it is not a combination of TV + monitor like the meivo. Anyhow, the technical specifications of Asus PG211 include a 2ms response time, a normal (for these kind of monitors) 1,000:1 contrast ratio, and last but not least, another normal 1,680 x 1,050 resolution.

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The Chinese mobile telephone company Huawei presented in CeBIT 2007 these cool concepts for new cell phones that may or may not be produced in the near future. The most interesting one is a mobile phone with an integrated USB connector that can be used without the need of an adapter or even a cable. The USB adapter is made with a flexible rubber that can be bent in any angle you need to connect it directly to your computer for transmitting data and charging your phone.

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