Cool USB gizmos – little friends for your laptop
Alexandra | 6:10 pm | November 30, 2009 | USB Stuff
Tiny mouse
Those who like mobility and don’t want to carry extra load will certainly appreciate surprising compactness and ease of the Super Slim USB optical mouse. It measures just 45 x 64 x 14 mm, and its weight is 28 grams. The mouse easily fits in your hand, while having very high resolution (1800 dpi). It works on most of surfaces, providing precise positioning. You can choose one of two models – white or black one.
High-speed scanner
The Neatdesk Scanner developed by the Neat company allows to work with most of the documents. It has three loading trays for different paper formats. The smallest one is designed for business cards, the second tray accepts cheques, and the biggest one works with the A4 paper size.
You can download up to 10 cards and 10 cheques at the same time, just press the button, and then all the documents will be scanned one by one. If you have a pack of A4 documents, you can load up to 50 sheets and they will be scanned automatically thanks to the document feeder. The maximum resolution is 600 dpi. The data can be exported to Outlook and Excel.
Special Neatdesk software allows you to automate scanning process. Just put the scanner near your laptop and enjoy a new film while this useful gadget is doing its work.
Desktop Vacuum Cleaner
A USB-powered miniature vacuum cleaner was designed expressly for fans of funny USB-toys. Despite its tiny size, it can manage its task. Use it to clean up crumbs and dust from the surface of your desk and laptop keyboard. Surely, this little helper means more power consumption for your battery, but having a spotlessly clean desk may well be worth it. 
A warm touch of bamboo
You are certainly tired of plastic that surrounds you everywhere. Do you want something natural? So you should pay your attention to Micro Innovations’ USB wooden keyboard and mouse that were made of bamboo for those who like “real” things. Quite unconventional, yet full of character.
Your Personal Cocrouch
Christine | 10:18 pm | April 9, 2008 | Laptop Accessories
“Small” is today’s technology’s favourite word. “Small” is almost a synonym to “captivating”; you manage to turn an already small thing into a tiny one and you are the man of the hour, the hero, the genius. Looks like the fame of these “minimizers” keeps designers awake at night. Otherwise it’s hard to explain why 2 ultra-small pointing devices have appeared lately.
Swiftpoint SLIDER fits around the thumb and is claimed to fulfill all functions of the mouse. It is however doubtful that this slider will be able to replace a standard mouse. If it does, you’ll have to hit the space button with you forefinger or your long finger which will remind of playing the piano rather than typing.
“I-T” Click, Click is controlled with the index finger and again – the thumb. The upper button is supposed to function as the left key and the left one – as the right key, which is indeed confusing. Besides, it is so small that a poodle can swallow it.
Conclusion: “small” does not always go side-by-side with “sensible” or “convenient”. Small cars do not survive in accidents, tiny cell-phones have buttons that only Thumbelina can push, and thin laptops can be accidentally thrown out with a pile of old magazines.
A Mouse For Ecomaniacs
Christine | 4:30 am | March 5, 2008 | Green Laptops, Laptop Accessories
If you were asked to name the person who had invented electricity, you’d probably say it was Benjamin Franklin who flew his kite during a thunderstorm. Yet, experts say that there was a whole range of scientists who contributed to this discovery, and that Franklin discovered only the interrelation between lightning and electricity.
Singaporean developers have now found interrelation between laptop heat and a laptop mouse and have presented a concept mouse that doesn’t need to be recharged. A special mouse pad that is placed under the laptop collects excessive heat and miraculously turns it into electricity, which is used to power this DORmino mouse. Thanks to magical silicon nanowires, it promises to provide us with 100% eco-friendly mouse.
This being a mouse however, friendship will most likely be a quick, one-sided affair. Replaced by hate when the mouse stops working because the window is open and there is not enough heat around. And you will have to boil it in a kettle, and then roast over fire a bit, until it becomes black and smelly and you throw it out of the window along with the magical nanowire mouse-pad.
This is what can happen when a simple and effective device is replaced by a complicated and expensive one, even for the noble cause of saving polar bears. There is a difference between being eco-friendly and eco-obsessed, and DORmino looks more like the second.
Greener Gadgets via Sparkingtech
Bath And Spa For Your Office
Sasha | 1:45 am | February 13, 2008 | Uncategorized
A toilet seat has 400 less germs than a usual keyboard of a public computer, researchers of the
I personally feel a bit of disgust touching a mouse of a public internet café that has a million fingerprints on it, with people eating, drinking, coughing and sneezing right next to me. Is there an antivirus, a real one?
The simplest way of protection is the regular use of cleaning wipes. However, there is a better solution – washable laptop accessories, Belkin washable mouse and flexible silicone keyboard.
Both the mouse and the keyboard are absolutely water-resistant and can be rinsed under the running tap water. The germs will be wiped out of existence, and spilled coffee will not be a problem anymore.
Flexible Silicone Keyboard >>>
A Mouse With a Twist
Christine | 2:47 am | February 6, 2008 | Laptop Accessories
Some laptop users neglect computer mice, and there’s a good reason for it: at the end of the working day the wrist always aches – if it doesn’t, it must be an artificial one. It’s well-known that we owe these wrist aches to the unnatural horizontal position of the hand holding the mouse which keeps joints strained.
There have been some rather radical suggestions for eliminating tension reflected in a couple of oddly-shaped mice, such as Microsoft Natural Wireless Laser Mouse 6000, AirO2bic or Zero Tension Mouse. However, there’s no optimal solution. Or just hasn’t been before.
Lite-On Technology has introduced the concept of a new Moldable Mouse made from special non-toxic clay: it can bend, twist and stretch, it can take any form, but it cannot break. In our today’s world, where all customizable things are welcome, this concept is very likely to be popular. A unique mouse that is shaped to fit your unique hand, and to fit it the way you like it, is something that will probably be a must-have.
