HP unveiled many of their newest products at their 3-day “Connecting Your World” event in Berlin yesterday.

Some of the highlights include a whopping 16 new business and consumer laptop models, including the HP Pavilion DV Series notebooks. This series include the d4, d5, d7, and tx25000 which have webcams, fingerprint readers, HD tuners, and Blu-ray drives. They also come with 3G internet, not unlike a certain phone from Mac.

HP also showed off two Voodoo models, the Omen and the Envy 133. The Envy 133 is pictured here to the above left, and is available in both white or black. Believe it or not, the Envy 133 is actually the thinnest notebook alive, even more thin than that one by Mac.

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Recently, I obtained some information about a company known as NaviSis, as well as their latest products. All of them are based on Thunderbolt and Lightning technology, which allows tracking of their digital pens “with the use of the difference of velocity between light and sound”.

Considering that the up-and-coming Windows 7 may use a lot of touch-based technology, it might be time to look into ways of interfacing with the computer that do not include the keyboard and mouse. Navisis is surfing the wave of the future with four products that can convert a Laptop into a Tablet-PC like touchscreen.

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Now here’s a webcam that does more than transmit your immediate surroundings to people on the other end of the Internet. This webcam features three PC video interactive games - Kungfu, Super Knight and Funny Stair. It is capable of capturing your real-time moves and translating them into action on the screen. Sounds as though this is something you would play in your own room as you certainly don’t want to be caught in an embarrassing position at the office while busting out some Bruce Lee moves, do you? This webcam retails for $33 a pop.

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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. from Taiwan has just rolled out a fair number of new reference designs that boast Wireless USB Host and Wireless USB Docking Station functionality. This development is very much welcome, as it enables PC OEMs to have the industry’s widest portfolio of complete end-to-end single-vendor solutions for wirelessly connected docking stations. These reference designs will greatly speed up the development process while enabling customers to roll out solutions to the market in a swift and decisive manner. To know more about the Wireless USB Docking Stations, head on after the jump for an excerpt from the press release.

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If you’re tired of boring gray and black electronics this cute little butterfly will be a refreshing change.  That is if you’re female, I doubt many guys would be overly pleased by a brightly colored butterfly webcam.  Then again I’m sure there are at least a couple exceptions to that.  The webcam easily attaches to the back of your laptop and peers over the top of it to catch a glimpse of you while you type away at whoever you may be broadcasting to.

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Since I was born in 1971, I am of the X Generation. I learned to adapt to all that computers starting doing in the Internet boom of the mid-nineties. I am always amazed at how much Generation Y can do on social networks like Myspace and Facebook.

Here is a disturbing image for you: Fifty or sixty years from now, this Generation Y will be on their computers in the rest home, logged on to whatever social network will be popular by 2050.

I don’t think that I could ever get my 67-year-old mother on this tech, but I could always try with the Jive, a social network for the elderly.

The Jive interface is set up with a bunch of slots on the bottom, so a user can “plug into” their friends. As soon as the friend disc (which can actually have a picture of the person on it) is plugged in, it would be like entering someone’s MySpace or Facebook page.

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People say that the world population is reaching epidemic numbers. This might be true, but imagine how many more little people there would be crawling around if so many couples didn’t have fertility issues. Not to mention a lot more happy, yet stressed, parents.

Issues with fertility have luckily been getting a helping boost from the progress of technology. Medications and laboratory fertilization has totally changed the concept of getting pregnant. Though if you don’t want to grow your baby in a lab, there are other methods on the way to help before reaching that point. The DuoFertility USB Skin Patch could one day help millions of couples plan their newest addition to the family.

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Now I’m pretty sure than plenty of us live in highly stressed environments, especially with the workplace getting more and more rigid while the cares and concerns of the world tends to overcome us. Why not take a back seat and relax with the USB Illuminated LED Waterfall Cloud Fountain on your desk? This will definitely add a touch of zen to your home/office/bedroom, as you play back relaxing soothing music while holding a mug of your favorite beverage in one hand while just letting all the stress melt away. It can be powered via three AA batteries or hooked up directly to any available USB port. Guess a highly strung dad deserves this $24 device for Father’s Day, eh?

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