I went to pick up a Wireless Router from a local computer shop http://www.a-power.com in hopes of grabbing a WRT54GL or at least a WRT54GS. The main reason being that I could flash the hardware to run DD-WRT http://www.dd-wrt.com which is a third part open source router firmware.

Samsung has developed low cost SATAII SSD's. Specifically the SSD's Samsung has been sampling are 30% smaller than 2.5 inch SSD's, and are really cost effective. They come in low density sizes, 8GB, 16GB and 32GB and operate at a speed of 90MB/sec to 70MB/sec.

Read the full article at Engadet

That's right, this isn't a joke.

The new drive will be very similar to the recently-released VelociRaptor, in that it’ll be a 2.5in drive with a custom 3.5in housing built around it. Details are incredibly light at this stage, given that the product is still in development, and we don’t even have a release timeframe at the moment.

However, our sources said that the drive will be ‘silent’ – that’s the last thing I would have expected from a drive with platters spinning at 20,000 RPM. Western Digital is apparently working on silencing the beast by improving the housing technology, which will now not just act as a heatsink, but also as a noise cancelling device. We’d also hope that the drive enclosure has some vibration dampening technology as well, because that’s also likely to be a problem given the high spindle speeds.

Now they just need push SATA 6.0Gbit/s onto motherboards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA#SATA_6.0_Gbit.2Fs

Full artile at bit-tech.net

I know everyone is loving the new Asus Eee PC and they should, its a wonderful device. But if you want to go even smaller you can take a look at Aleutia E1 it only takes 8 watts of power and can be charged using solar power. Definitely for the out and out and about type traveler that needs a small computer that can be charged easily, combined with a sattlite phone for data and you have all that you need in a remote location.

Siver Seal has launched its anti-bacterial and dishwasher safe keyboard and mouse. Not the first in the world, but a valuable product for all those hypochondriacs out there.