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Lexar JumpDrive Mercury

Juniper Foo | Jan 25, 2006

With thumbdrives getting larger in capacity, Lexar's built-in capacity meter is one sweet idea. At a glance, you'll know right away just how much free space is left even when it's unplugged. The display, created by E Ink Corp, is paper-thin and shatter-proof; which is good news for those of us who chuck our thumbdrives with our keys and lose change.

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Price: N.A.
Availability: More info from press release
Device: Thumbdrive
Basic specs: 1GB and 2GB capacities

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Ridata USB DVB-T Tuner

Juniper Foo | Jan 24, 2006

Digital TV on your notebook or desktop PC? With Ridata's USB Stick DVB-T Tuner TA T100, showcased at CES 2006, users possibly have the first sweet solution to catching DTV on their portable. Unfortunately, the tuner supports the DVC protocol ETS 300 744, which just happens to be available only in Europe, Australia and Taiwan. Great. Still, that doesn't mean the rest of Asia can't look and drool.

Price: About US$60
Availability: US, soon
Device: USB DTV tuner
Basic specs: N.A.

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Vienna: Vista's successor

Darius Chang | Jan 23, 2006

Even before Windows Vista has gone gold, the next generation of Microsoft's flagship OS has already been given a name change. From the cool-sounding "Blackcomb", Vista's successor will henceforth be associated with the city of Vienna.

Named after the capital of Austria, the "Vienna" codename follows Microsoft's trend of using locations to tag the different generations of its OS. Rather than using undecipherable serial or model numbers, the software giant says that "we have used city code names (for new operating systems) in the past, which are derived from cities/locations in the world known for great 'vistas'--the kinds of places we all want to see, experience and that capture the imagination".

What is significant about the name change? Apparently nothing at all. It's neither a developmental milestone nor a change in feature set. According to Michael Cherry, analyst at Directions on Microsoft: "It's just a morale thing. The other names have been kicking around so long, it's much more about trying to keep focused and keep some excitement around where they are going."

Just exactly how changing the codename name boosts morale, maintains focus and excitement is rather abstract, to say the least. Perhaps beta-testers and programmers truly are a different breed.

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MoGo Mouse BT

Juniper Foo | Jan 19, 2006

What's that about carpel tunnel syndrome? Newton's rodent is too flat out cool not to own one and show off. It's business card-sized, Bluetooth-enabled, and tucks away in your laptop's PC Card slot when not in use. What's more, this award-winning mouse even recharges while napping in its slot. Goes matchingly well with your RAZR phone.

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Price: About US$69.95; it is now available in most IT shops in Singapore at S$129
Availability: More info here
Device: Notebook mouse
Basic specs: Bluetooth

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