COLLECTOR'S EDITION ASTRO BOY NETBOOK FINALLY ARRIVES

The Limited Edition AstroBoy netbook is finally here. It is kind of cartoony and armed with some special goodies. And at $900, it is pricey too.

The Astro Boy netbook has the regular netbook specifications. It runs on an Atom N270 processor with 1GB of RAM and Windows XP Home. It has a 10.1 inch display featuring 1024 x 600 pixels. Other notable features include WiFi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth and a 1.3 mega pixel webcam.

But why would anyone want to spend close to $1,000 on a regular netbook? Well, the netbook is Astro Boy branded. And besides the regular hardware you also get some goodies in a briefcase: Astro Boy branded MP3 player, portable hard drive, 2GB flash drive and USB Hub / card reader. Is that all? Well, not really. You also get a certificate of authenticity which is a guarantee that you are one of the 1,000 people who will ever get to lay their hands on the device.

FINALLY A NETBOOK FOR UNDER $200

Who would have thought that the day would come so soon that you would be able to buy a sub $200 netbook from some guy in Thailand. Well that day has come and you can finally get the Gecko EduBook for a nickle under the $200 buffer zone.

IRIVER D50N MID FINALLY COMING

This is the first time the name iriver has graced this blog, and good for reasons, because until now they only made a couple of MP3 players and PMP's that (while sexy) didn't garner any attention. But thanks to that cool MID D50N e-dictionary that they unveiled back in January at CES, we're totally using their name.

CYBER SPORTS ORBITA MOUSE FINALLY SEES DAYLIGHT

You might have recalled hearing about Cyber Sports revolutionary mouse a few months ago. In case you didn't the whole idea of the mouse is actually very simple; replace the left and right mouse buttons with a spinning scroll wheel. This would than allow users much better experience when scrolling (faster), 3D and CAD programs since you would be able to have 3-axis control over 3D objects (hello AutoDesk, Google Earth and last but not least video manipulation which would allow you to advance frame by frame.

NANOTECHNOLOGY PEAKING UP FINALLY WITH 500,000GB OF STORAGE LOOKING POSSIBLE

Imagine holding a 500,000GB of capacity holder of an mp3/video player unit. With this newest kid of a technology just spiking out to life, that just may topic of reality. As unfeasible as it sounds currently, but the scientists at the University of Glasgow have generated a concept of new definition using the all practiced nanotechnology breakthrough that can enhance the storage capability of a player by not jus by 3 X or even not just by 50 X but to whooping 150,000 X. Hypothetically, 500,000GB could be compressed onto a 1" square chip.

“What we have captured at present is find a way to amicably spike up the data storage possibilities in a radical and a classical way. We have been able to put together a functional unit that’s with nano-cluster components that incorporates 2 electron donating groups, and locate them elegantly 0.32 nm spaced out so that they can form a all together new type of molecular switching device. The key improvement of the iota sized switch is information or transistor concentration in conventional semi-conductors. Fragment sized switches would escort to escalating data storage to say to high levels as high as 4 Peta-bits per square inch. This burst through shows abstractly that this is surely possible (showing the bulk effect) but we are nevertheless to get to the bottom of the cock-and-bull story and addressing to the issues that develop. The fact is that these switches labor on carbon means that they could be easily embedded in plastic chips so silicon is not required and the system turns out to be much more flexible both in the flesh and technologically.”