Peripherals
SMK-Link’s Notebook USB Audio Station tilts your laptop with speakers
On one hand, it’s just a laptop docking station. On the other, it’s probably the most useful laptop docking station this side of Toshiba’s dynadock V . SMK-Link ‘s simply titled Notebook USB Audio Station was just released, bringing a universal (Mac and PC) design that actually goes above and beyond the call to a product segment that’s typically a snoozefest
Nokia N8′s USB On-The-Go support demoed, lesser phones turned into slaves
Among the Nokia N8′s neater tricks is its support for USB On-The-Go, which basically lets you connect USB peripherals (flash drives, for example) to the phone and have it act as a host — a duty usually reserved for heavier-duty devices like PCs. Though the N8 is still a solid month or three away from release, we’re getting a nice little video demo on YouTube today of an N8 being walked through the paces of connecting both a plain-vanilla USB drive and another Symbian-based Nokia candybar (brownie points for naming the model in comments, by the way). Basically, you can treat the connected hardware as mass storage and browse it just as you would the N8′s internal space, which basically means you’ve got unlimited music capacity as long as you’ve got a pocket full of USB sticks and a micro USB-to-USB adapter cord
Microsoft throws a helping of vivacious onto Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 line
What good is a Blue Track mouse in only pink and gray ? Not nearly as good as one splashed in every pastel you can think of, and especially not as good as a new trio of varied ones
iPad Camera Kit ships with USB headset and keyboard support
Reports are coming in that the iPad Camera Connection Kit has finally shown up on a couple buyer doorsteps, and that the pair of white dongles may actually have been worth the wait .
Onkyo busts out DP312 Ion nettop
Onkyo ‘s just added the DP312 nettop to its lineup. This Ion -based box boasts a 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 2GB of RAM, a 320GB HDD, and a DVD player to boot
WarGames ‘Shall we play a game?’ computer for sale; credit cards at DEFCON 1 (video)
You know what sells? Nostalgia.
