This morning, I was browsing through some sales of computer peripherals at Amazon and was a little shock to see such huge capacity USB flash drive is on sale!

Corsair Flash Voyager is the latest product manufactured by Corsair and it’s the largest capacity USB 2.0 flash drive to date with a massive 32GB of storage. While Moore’s law is suggesting memory capacity would double its size approximately every 2 years, I think this 32GB flash drive is a bit beyond the projection, don’t you think so?

Anyway, obviously this USB flash drive is not a prototype but an end product selling on the shelves in many online computer stores right now, below are some sales I found :-

• US$154.99 at Amazon - Best value!
• US$159.99 at Newegg
• US$157.50 at MWave

Corsair is well known of its high quality and performance computer main memory (RAM), therefore they are confident with Corsair Flash Voyager by offering a 10 years limited warranty. Even though the durable rubber casing doesn’t make it one stylish flash drive, I suppose the capacity, reliability and its warranty are enough win our hearts.

Anyway, with such a huge capacity, you can practically store the entire Windows Vista operating system, all application programs, and a couples of DVD into it! Moving huge files from one PC to another PC outside a network and harddisk backup would never been easier using it too.

Have a webcam? What other purpose you use your webcam for other than having video chat or video conferencing with friends/family? I don’t know about you, but I do use my webcam as a surveillance camera. My webcam is a cheap one (costs about RM25/US$7) and it is able to zoom digitally for about 5x only. As you might have known, the picture quality is not good using digital zoom.

This 7x optical zoom webcam is definitely a perfect webcam to act as a cheap solution for surveillance, while you can zoom more without compromising the picture quality. In fact, this webcam is just like normal CMOS camera of 1.3-millon pixels. However, it has an edge over other webcams as it has a special telephoto lens to get fixed onto it in order to leverage the optical zoom capability!

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7x Optical Zoom Webcam

The quest in making laptops into thinner size with longer lasting battery life has gone one step further as LED backlighting, a new technique for LCD illumination, will be used in new Apple and HP laptops’ LCD screen. Furthermore, with LED backlight LCD screen produces better color saturation and distributes backlight more evenly than the ordinary LCD most laptops are currently using.

Apple and HP are among the few laptop manufacturers that will be releasing LED backlit laptops in Q2 of 2007, while Sony and NEC already have their LED backlit laptops available in the market though in a limited range of laptop models.

Anyway, as expected LED Backlit Laptop will have brightness ratings of over 1,680cd/m² as compared to most laptop nowadays are only having brightness rated for 200-400cd/m².

NaturalLogin Pro is a product from Palcott which helps you to secure networks so that not to be compromised when users leave their computers unattended.

NaturalLogin Pro is basically a software that makes use of your existing USB MP3 players or USB flash drives to establish a hardware link with Windows login account and privileges. Once the users installed NaturalLogin, users no longer have to re-enter their passwords each time they approach their computer. Users can be automatically logged on to their machine as they plug in their USB drive. NaturalLogin Pro recognizes users and determines their access privileges, preventing information from falling into the wrong hands.

Palcott says that NaturalLogin Pro provides robust security for stand alone or networked computers, as well as the personalization and convenience which users require. From home users to workgroups and even large hospitals with hundreds of people accessing dozens of computers, NaturalLogin Pro ensures the security of a network, the privacy of sensitive data, and user satisfaction.

NaturalLogin Pro costs USD$29.95, and supports Windows 2000/XP.
A 15-days trial is available at Download.com.

Last month, we saw a keyboard with no inscription on the keys, which we won’t see any words printed on those keys on the board.

Today, I introduce you another interesting keyboard, which planned to be released in 2006: Optimus Keyboard.

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This conceptual keyboard is designed by Art. Lebedev Studio, the largest design company in Russia. Anyway, the keyboard is still in initial stage of production and hope fully will be priced less than a good mobile phone.

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It can be programmed to display in any sequence and there is an additional block of keys on the left, which meant for switching between programs or modes.

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Optimus Keyboard

I just came across this special Linux distribution that can be installed on the iPod, and thought I should share it with you all.

You might not be aware of this small system, which can perform quite a few interesting functionalities such as audio recording, photo viewing, calculator & calendar, Tetris game, Asteroids game and the most recent feature : Playing movies !!
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Ipod Linux