MSI Wind NB U100: Mini-notebook

MSI's Wind NB U100 is one of the first Intel Atom-based mini-notebooks to appear. It gives a clear idea of what the bargain-priced CPU can handle. Other components include 1GB of RAM, an 80GB 2.5-inch hard drive, and Windows XP-, all for $550. The Wind is roughly the size of a super-small ultraportable laptop, like Lenovo's Ideapad U110, but mini-notebooks and ultraportables in no way overlap price and performance..

The Wind manages to get a cool design with a 10-inch, 1024-by-600 resolution display and a keyboard reasonably appropriate for hands to type on. It's also larger (10.23 by 7.08 by 1.24 inches ) than most other mini-notes, and its construction seems rugged (additional bonus is the well-constructed hinges inside the case). The Wind comes with an array of features like three USB ports, a Webcam/mic that camps atop the display, an SD Card slot, and ethernet and VGA-out jacks, like most of the present mini notebooks

The bundled software is pretty misery: a trial version of Microsoft Office 2007 and a BurnRecovery App that crafts a recovery CD which is not goona be useful for a device with no optical drive.

The Wind's most notable feature is TurboDrive--a feature that amounts to overclocking at the touch of a button. Essentially, TurboDrive appears to be a power management shortcut that shoves the Atom processor into its (relatively) high-power mode. Battery life is a big dissappointment: The juice lasted for just 2 hours, 24 minutes.

Navigating documents and files is reasonably painless. The single bar at the bottom of the mousepad is cool, which serves as both the left and right mouse click..

There are some solid reasons to consider MSI's Wind. It's small and fairly light (about 2.6 pounds), and it's sturdy enough to take a beating. But other solidly-built mini-notebooks are just gonna surface up, including Lenovo's S10 and the Dell mini Inspiron 910. Its better to weigh your options before you consider buying any of these.

Cool gadget: Clocky Robotic Alarm

Consider, the usual scenario! You're snoring away to glory and your alarm starts ringing. You swing your arm and hit the snooze button. After 5 minutes it starts ringing again.. What happens when it rings again. You take another swing at it and this time just switch it off. By the time, your beauty sleep is over, you find yourself late for your work. All you do is curse the clock.

Now, its time for the alarm clock to teach you a lesson.. Just kidding.

Check out these cool gadget called the Clocky Robotic Alarm. Clocky will first give you a chance to get up like a normal person. But, then there is no turning back.The next time it leaps off of your night stand, and drives around your room, making random turns and racing away from your grasp. you have got no option but to get out of your bed and hunt the gizmo down to turn it off.

It will all end up with you getting rid of your lazy hormones and finally you'll be ready for work on time.



With the dimension of 5.25″ x 3.5″ x 3.5″, the cool Clocky is fully adjustable. You can set it to snooze once before running away, or even not to run away at all, if you wanna wake up easily with Clocky alarm sound around your room. The price is around 50$

Technical details:

1) Adjustable snooze time, 0-9 min
2) Snooze once before he runs away, choose 0 as snooze time and he runs away directly.
3) Choose 0 and he runs right away
4) Can jump from up to 3 feet
5) Press snooze to view time at night
6) Screen flashes when beeping/running
7) Alarm beeps in random pattern.

Fortress Ultra-Rugged Hard Drive

Has this ever happened to you? You have all your important data on that latest high-speed hard drive. The drive slips from your hand and crashes to the ground.KAPUT! The data is lost..

Check out the cool Fortress Ultra-rugged hard drive, a sure way of safeguarding your important data from shock and vibration plus even a drop of 6 feet onto solid concrete won’t harm your hard drive because it is constructed from a very tough aluminum alloy and is 100% nickel plated.

Fortress Ultra Rugged Hard Drive features shock resistant that can withstand an impact from a drop height of 7 feet with rotational speed of 4,200 rpm and a buffer size of 8MB. With Fortress Ultra Rugged Hard Drive, you can experience error-free operation in severe vibration environments plus its internal heat sinking design increases hard drive life and reliability.

The Fortress drive exceeds 3x MIL-STD-810F, making it ideal for Business, Industrial, Photographic, Military and Aerospace applications.

The muscle phone from Casio

All you adventure-seeking people get ready for the new toughie in the market. Verizon has come out with their much-anticipated successor to the ultra-rugged Casio G’zOne push-to-talk handset, the Verizon Casio G’zOne Boulder.

The G'zone Boulder is a cool gadget for $129.99 which includes 2-year contract and online discounts . Black-on-Silver is the only available color choice at the moment, but speculations are there that the Verizon is readying that bright-orange hunk for a later release.

The Casio G’zOne Boulder’s cosmetic updates, while significant and seriously eye-catching, aren’t the only thing in store for Verizon subscribers. It also gives military-spec shock, dust, and water resistance. The Casio G’zOne Boulder offers a 1.3MP camera(which was a VGA in its predecessor) , push-to-talk on the EVDO Rev.

A-based 3G access for instant conversation during a nature hike or field work. Also a cool thing is the digital compass that appears on the clamshell phone's external LCD for quicker trail navigation and the option of using the phone as an LED-based flashlight.

GPS navigation is expectedly standard on the Boulder media player software, and a microSD slot for media storage expand the feature set into the mid-range.

So,charge! All you crazy water-borne, sand-loving, adrenaline junkies and grab yourself the absolute standard in rugged mobiles.