One of the main reason of Lego’s success is the ability to piece together virtually every single piece as your imagination dictates. Ultra Products decided to inject some of the Lego element in their latest line of peripherals which can be stacked on top of one another in order to intimidate other devices on your workspace with their towering presence. You can choose from a vertical or horizontal position when rearranging your desk. Don’t worry about the devices overheating, as Ultra Products has made sure that there is ample space in between to prevent overheating issues.

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Panasonic has recently released two new cool laptops that belong in the tough category, they are code named CF-30 and CF-19. The important detail of Toughbooks is the protection that it offers and therefore the extended durability that it can achieve, it can support a lot of damage that other laptops can’t and passed some interesting tests, such as:

• 26 drops from a height of 36 inches – and it still worked after all the strikes
• vibration tests to use the laptop on ground vehicles (read big car)
• water resistance – you can drop water on the keyboard and it will continue to work
• high and low temperature tests
• dust and altitude resistance

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Media Center systems are pretty much the same, boasting enough hard drive space to store a respectable amount of episodes, the usual high end video card for DVD decoding, a pretty spiffy processor, and an adequate amount of RAM. VidaBox decided to up the ante by bringing both HD DVD and Blu-ray formats into a single device with their new line of Media Center PCs. The premium Dual HD Lux and Max systems are rack-mountable computers which can handle either high definition disc formats without a hitch. This means you no longer need to worry about picking up the right disc format to match your player.

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Oops. According to a notice on Apple’s technical support site, 1% of Video iPods shipped after September 12 had a little present on their hard drives. It wasn’t something good, like free music or movies, but a computer virus called “RavMonE.exe” that spreads via removable media.

Apple’s response was the following: “As you might imagine, we are upset at Windows for not being more hardy against such viruses, and even more upset with ourselves for not catching it… So far we have seen less than 25 reports concerning this problem…. and all Video iPods now shipping are virus free.”

Mac users can breathe a sigh of relief, the “RavMonE.exe” virus only affects computers running Microsoft’s Windows operating system. If you are a PC user who recently purchased a Video iPod, you can detect and remove the virus using an anti-virus software program like Norton AntiVirus. You should also scan any mass storage devices that you have recently attached to your PC such as external hard drives, digital cameras with removable media, and USB flash drives.

Good luck.

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The world is divided into two segments – those who can spend their day and time in arcades all day long, feeding the machines quarters until they manage to unlock every single secret and complete the game on a single credit, and others who claim that arcades are the reason for the downfall of morality in society due to the negative messages that are spread via the games themselves. If you fall into the latter category, kindly ignore this post, while purveyors of the former will be delighted to know that they can now bring home an arcade game without the hassle of transporting an entire gaming cabinet home with the Arcade-in-a-Box system.

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Most games intend to bring the player into a virtual environment, but Philips is taking the opposite approach by bringing the in-game experience into the real, corporeal world. The Philips amBX system aims to achieve that by letting you feel the lighting within a game, thanks to a rather low tech solution. The amBX system will envelope your room in the corresponding light depending on where you are in the game. I suppose this concept will work well when you’ve holed yourself up in a small, dark room without any lights on.

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I’m pretty sure you must be be sick of cubes right now, I mean that after reading about the Rubiks Hub that can handle 4 devices at the same time, and the Apple Store glass-cube-style that doesn’t please the Muslims, there is an imposing shape that starts to get annoying. But since I like to torture people I bring another cool gadget with the cube as shape – the USB Cube Card Reader.

It’s a small and portable (the size of a keychain really, this image works as a proof) USB2.0 card reader that has 2 versions compatible with the following memory cards:

• the old Memory Stick – launched in 1998 by Sony
• the Secure Digital card, best known as SD card – launched in 2000 by Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba, it was like direct competition between the two cards

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It’s official. Say hello to Chad and Steve, the worlds newest millionaires. Web-search giant Google has acquired YouTube for roughly $1.6 billion. The acquisition of YouTube makes Google the 500 gorilla of online video. And that’s a perfect place to be at a time when consumers are rapidly increasing the amount of time they spend viewing video clips online, and Internet video advertising is booming.

Thank goodness Rupert Murdoch didn’t buy YouTube.

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