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“The king is dead. Long live the king”.

No idea who said it first, but I’m sure it was a bit of an event. What I AM sure of, is that originally it wasn’t referring to Elvis. Because although he is ‘the king’ and although he is ‘dead’ (unless you believe my brother-in-law who insists he’s working at the fish and chip shop in Runcorn) the quote is from around 1422, which is almost certainly before Elvis’ time.

Where am I going with this? Well, with all the assorted activity around solid state drives, you would think that development of traditional platter-based drives would be starting to decrease.

No way Jose.

This little beauty from Fujitsu spins at a rapid 15,000 RPM and claims to have increased reliability. Which is nice.

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Ryan.

I have to be honest with you (honesty pays, apparently, and I need the cash) when I first saw this, I thought it said ‘Microsoft SCARFACE’. It had me wondering what on earth MS was doing re-making a perfectly good movie. But no, apparently not. Al Pacino can rest easy.

This, ladies and gentlemen is the future. And it has been for quite a while.

Price is around the $10k mark (£5k, €7.25k) which I actually think is not at all bad. Especially if all this honesty pays off…

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Let me tell you what is going through these kids minds: “I wish I could curl up and die” and “I am going to be emotionally scarred for life” and “since when was human cloning legal?”.

This is called the ‘trioBike’. Which, as far as I can tell is a pretty reasonable product name. It does three things, you see - use it as a bike (clone 1), a pushchair (clone 2) and a carrierbike (clone 3). Very clever in a Danish bacon kind of way.

Costs a mere $3400 (£1700; €2450).

Just be prepared for your kids to hate you.

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Ryan.

According to Target, “The scariest part of plane travel is…breathing the exact same air as everyone else in that metal canister for several hours as you’re hurtling through the air”.

Uh. No.

The scariest thing about plane travel is maybe hitting mountains, having a mid air decompression over the atlantic and not having enough fuel to reach land or possibly having the kid sitting next to you mustering up the worlds largest puke right on your lap. Or maybe it’s the food. Personally, I would put ‘breathing the exact same air as everyone’ no more than 8 or 9 on the list. But that’s just my opinion.

Basically, you jam this thing on your “overhead air nozzle” and aim it at your face. In seconds, you are breathing clean, pure, friendly, happy air which is actively fighting off all 99.5% of the nasty bugs and viri. Yours for only $20 (£10; €14).

Now, if only they can invent one that shuts up annoying kids… or gives you more legroom… or an automatic upgrade…

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Ryan.

Now I’m not sure exactly how long this whole optimus maxiumus keyboard palaver has been going on, but it’s been a while.

You don’t need me to tell you all about it (each key = mini OLED display = ultimate configurability = ultimate desirability), but there is news. Namely, that you can now order one. I say ‘order’ in the loosest sense of the word. Or at least, in the “order now and get it for Christmas (just)” sense of the word.

Yes, for just $1564.37 (that 37 cents is important) you can pre-order. No, it doesn’t include shipping. Or a voucher for a free reality check.

As Russell Crowe said once: “My name is Optimus Maximus Longius Waitius, commander of the Keyboards of the North blah blah blah And I will be in production, in this life or the next.”

I love my movie quotes, me.

Ryan

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Great tool for mixing your music tracks, wait for it…..”wirelessly”.

This little beaut connects to your PC using some kind of magical connection whereby invisible signals are sent from it through the same air that you breathe into your computer. Whatever will they think up next….telephones you can use outside your home?

With more knobs to tweak than, say, a knobby thing the Hercules DJ Mobile MP3 only costs £45.95 from Amazon.co.uk.
Unit has 2 jog wheels, 3 sliders and 2 wheels. So come on you crazy kids…if Pete Tong can do it, anyone can.

 

Well, those clever geeks at Pileus have done it again.
Not content with their original invention, the wireless transparent balaclava they have unleashed the awesome design that is, the Internet Umbrella.

Yours for a cool £0.5m this truly amazing contraption lets you sneak out from your gweeby bedroom under the guise of a confused double agent and wander aimlessly around the ghetto streets of Runcorn watching pixelated google earth images of the street you’re aimlessly wandering on thanks to the built-in wireless internet connection.

No, but seriously, this gadget is a definite mustn’t have for 2007.

More info can be found at www.pileus.net, but I’m warning you now, if I hear you’ve bought one…I will hunt you down, and poke you.

P.S. I lied about the price.