How many people use the shoulder strap of a laptop bag? Well I think it is more men that women, which is probably why companies like Puma have come up with a line of lap top bags that probably suit women more than men.

These bags offer a light weight alternative to those heavy bags that are more bag than laptop. There is a great color choice too, Pink Carnation, Black Steel, Red and Baltic Sea.

But out of all things that you can think of, the best thing is of course the price, just $20!

Source [Geek Sugar]

Three new bags from Belkin to give your laptop something to be proud of. The three styles are a Sling, Messenger Bag and a Sleeve.

These bags have a good inner space and are lined with a nice soft material that will protect the laptop and not scratch it.

Detail descriptions:

Sling (F8N052) - $49.99

Thin, contoured, padded shoulder strap is comfortable, not bulky or heavy
Separate pouch included for power adapter and cables
Quick-release clip makes it quick and easy to remove bag
Phone compartment
Fits up to a 15″ laptop
Available in colors: jet/cabernet, chocolate/tourmaline

Messenger Bag 15.4″ (F8N050) - $49.99; 17″ (F8N051) - $49.99

Thin, contoured, padded shoulder strap is comfortable, not bulky or heavy
Separate pouch included for power adapter and cables
15.4″ Messenger case available in colors: jet/cabernet, dove/peony, dove/tarragon, chocolate/tourmaline
17″ Messenger case available in colors: chocolate/tourmaline, jet/cabernet

Sleeve: 14″ (F8N047) - $29.99; 15.4″ (F8N048) - $29.99; 17″ (F8N049) - $34.99

Hand-washable
Use alone or put inside another laptop bag for traveling
Unique, asymmetrical-zipper design for easy top or side access
Available in colors: jet/cabernet, chocolate/tourmaline, dove/peony, dove/tarragon

Source [Cool Gadget Zone]

Moving your laptop around the house is fine, but carrying all the other accessories like the mouse, so Belkin the great accessory makers have come up with a great idea to make things easier.

This is the mouse trap, a neat holder for your mouse, pen, paper and other bits and pieces. The case itself can also be used, as a mouse pad, which is handy as press the mouse down on the bed, is not any good at all.

The case comes in a variety of colors like Jet with Cabernet, Chocolate with Tourmaline and Dove with Tarragon.

The price of the holder or bag is only $13

Source [Geek Sugar]

Add a touch of class to your laptop, with this retro looking lamp, simply plug into the USB port and you are away, a nice gentle light for you to work by.

Features of the Retro USB Lamp:

# Beautiful design
# Gentle light
# USB powered
# 6 LED lights
# On/Off switch
# Flexible neck to adjust the lamp direction
# Available in Orange or Purple

This lamp is just $11.99, a retro price for a retro lamp.

Product Page [Perpetual Kid]

I wonder how many people still have collections of old 45 vinyl records? It must run into thousands, yet how of them actually have the equipment to play then on.

At last there is a player that will allow those people to transfer the old 45 records onto a laptop and from there save the recordings into the mp3 format that can then be transferred onto your favorite digital player, or if you like the discs thing you can always produce a CD of all those favorites.

Product Features & Specifications

* Professional quality turntable connects to your PC via USB
* Classic styling with included smoked plastic dust cover
* Rip your vinyl directly to MP3 or WAV format
* Easily move your recordings to iPod or burn them to CD (Free iTunes software download required)
* Ships with Audacity software (compatible with PC and Mac) for removing clicks, pops, and other undesirable characteristics of vinyl
* Audacity supports high-speed recording, then returns music to original playback speed
* Audacity software includes ability to export to WAV and MP3
* 33.33 and 45 RPM playback speeds
* Supports the recording of 78 RPM records through the included software
* RCA line outputs with built-in pre-amp allow direct connection to your existing audio system.
* Plug and Play USB compatibility with both Windows (XP, 2000, Vista) and Mac OS X
* Packaged with all necessary cables to interconnect with both a computer and stereo playback system

Cost is around $99.

Source [Fat Wallet]

Now you can share or just store your short videos or photos, without the need for computer to upload and download them, with the iWay is it possible to connect to the iPod and view what is stored on the iWay card.

Imagine those special occasions, say a wedding or something you have been taking video but this soon runs out, so you need to either switch the card or download the images to the laptop that you have to carry around, but with the iWay, this will hold much more than you can imagine, up to 80 Gbs on your iPod, you see you can your images on the iPod and sort them out later.

Choose Black or White. Works with iPod Video 80GB, iPod Video 60GB and iPod Video 30GB. Note: a typical 60 gigabyte Video iPod will easily store 40,000 photos! But does not work with iPod Nano or the Photo iPod.

For just under $70 the iWay is well worth considering.

Source [The Gadgets Page]

Here’s a nice wireless wall digital photo frame howto.

A quick search of the web turned up several do-it-yourself articles by photographers that had built their own digital frames – typically from discarded laptops. The laptop based digital frames have larger screens (10” to 15”), and tend to be reasonably inexpensive to build (provided you own a discarded laptop).

The laptop projects that I saw had a couple of common issues, however. All of them involved taking the laptop apart completely and generally rendering it useless for any other activity. The screens were also smaller than I wanted – equivalent to an 8”x12” photo, and varied considerably in contrast, brightness, and general image quality.

For my project, I wanted a desktop quality LCD screen of a size equivalent to an 11”x14” photograph. I also wanted professional quality matting and framing. My wife was skeptical about the project, and I knew that if the frame did not look great, it would be banished to the family room, instead of being mounted in a place of honor in the living room.

I had recently upgraded my 17” LCD desktop monitor, and I also had a discarded laptop. I decided to use these as the base components for my digital frame.

via shuttertalk

Check out some of the cool Antartic autonomous solar robots being developed here. Above is a picture of a guy (yes holding a laptop), snow-surfing at about 5mph…

Not too bad on solar power, we give thumbs up for that.

One morning, while taking walking behind the robot and dragging a sled of equipment for quantitatively measuring the strength and cohesion of the snow underfoot, we realized what fools we were to man-haul the equipment ourselves. And, for that matter, how silly even to walk. So, we hooked the sled to the robot and went for a ride. The robot, it turns out, can haul its own weight (nearly 200 lbs.) on a sled and hardly notice it.

This image was another born out of spontaneity, and yet has become of the most popular images from the whole project. Snow surfing behind the robot is not very exciting however; it only travels at a slow walking pace.

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I feel bad for this guy… sometimes I feel it too… good thing my laptop is still here! ^^

via dabomb.tv