Earlier this week OCZ announced that they would be releasing a new addition to their line of SSDs, the Agility EX. The Agility EX is built on SLC technology, which has benefits in terms of lifespan and performance. …Continue reading … »

Toshiba has created the industry’s first 2.5-inch 512GB SSD. It has maximum read/write times of 240MB per second and 200MB per second respectively. The 512GB SSD is part of family of SSDs based on 43 nanometer (nm) Multi-Level Cell NAND. …Continue reading … »

Is it possible to manufacture a good pair of portable speakers? That is speakers that are small and lightweight and yet produce good sound when used with electronics such as laptops and mp3 players.

Perhaps now that product has finally arrived in the form of Woodchuck Speakers. …Continue reading … »

Have you ever thought about how many germs accumulate on your computer mouse? You use it day in and day out for several hours a day there could be millions of bacteria making a home on there.

And who knows what lab results would reveal? …Continue reading … »

Having recently had some hands-on time with Sony’s 16.4-inch FW notebook and Acer’s 18.4-inch Aspire 8920G notebook, I’m really excited to hear of the new AW series of notebooks from Sony. …Continue reading … »

It seems that since the Macbook Air was released everyone wants to do their version of it. Now Samsung has thrown their hat into the arena with the Samsung X360 notebook. …Continue reading … »

Earlier this week Hitachi announced that they will be releasing a new group of 2.5-inch hard drives called the MHZ2 BJ series. These hard drives run at a speed of 7200 RPM and the largest one has a capacity of 320GB. They use only use 2.3W of power to perform read or write operations. The MHZ2 BJ series support the Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s interface and will be available near the end of June 2008. …Continue reading … »

Belkin has created a mini surge protector that contains 3 AC outlets and 2 USB ports which can only be used for charging devices.

A small portable surge protector with USB ports is a simple but great idea, and I’m sure this product will be used by many people, including frequent travelers, and students. I’m surprised no one else has brought a product like this to the market already.

Belkin’s Mini Surge protector is available now and is priced at $24.99.

[source: Crunchgear]

This new portable hard disk drive, I-O Data’s HDMC has really got my attention. It can hold alot of data because it has a capacity of 16GB, its small and it seems to be very capable of surviving any abuse that normal life can through at it - and then some. …Continue reading … »

Western Digital has the biggest notebook hard drive on the block. It comes in the form of their new 320GB Scorpio Serial ATA hard drive for laptops.

The 2.5-inch hard drive (model number WD3200BEVT) has a rotational speed of 5400 rpm, an access time of 12 ms, a 8MB cache and uses 3Gb/s SATA.

Other notable features are its built-in shock protection and WhisperDrive technology. Its also slim, with its 9.5mm form-factor. The 320GB Scorpio is available now for $199.

[source:Slashgear]