Category Archives: Laptop Hardware

Colourful Laptop Headphones

Posted on May 6, 2010 by David Allen

Why bother fiddling around tiny headphones and ear buds to listen to music with, when you can go all the way with some serious headphone power that come in cool colours and offer the consumer some serious ear splitting sound (sounds worse than it is).

These headphones can be used in conjunction with a laptop, cell phone or any mobile music player, they look groovy and feel comfortable because of the special ear cushioning, what more could a music fan want?

Here are the specs and features of the urbanears headphones:

•Excellent sounding headphones with built-in microph

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Handy Netbook Drive

Posted on May 3, 2010 by David Allen

Anyone that bought a netbook thinking that it was just a small laptop would have quickly found that with some models the reason why they are so light and cheap is because there is no DVD drive, which sort of limits the work that can be done on the machine.

However, there is a quick and easy answer to the problem and it comes in the form of a portable DVD drive, just plug into the USB port for software CD’s and movie DVDs, its excellent and light.

Here are some of the details for the netbook DVD drive:

The top-loading drive uses Constant Angular Velocity (CAV) to achie

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The Multi Use Cable

Posted on April 27, 2010 by David Allen

With so many accessories and gadgets available to the laptop user, they could easily end up with more cables than anything else could, which can get tangled up and occasionally damaged.

But with this Universal Network Cable there are five different cable types all in this one small unit, all that is required is the user rotates the centre to the correct setting and that is it, easy!

Here are the specs and features of the universal network cable:

•Provides 5 cable types in one connector

•Just rotate the centre to the cable you need

•Cable options:

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Having Trouble Seeing In The Dark

Posted on April 13, 2010 by David Allen

Using a laptop in the dark or fading light can lead to all sorts of problems, such as typos and completely wrong spellings etc.

However, the solution can be quick and easy, all it takes is a sheet of glowing stickers and around $10, sounds like bargain so long as they stay on the keys and do not stick to your fingers as that can cause problems too.

Features and specs of the handy Glowing Keyboard Stickers:

•High quality fluorescent print reflects any ambient source – no matter how small.

•Eases eye fatigue while typing in low-light levels.

•Mat

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The Apricorn Aegis NetDock for Netbooks

Posted on March 16, 2010 by David Allen

Fill in the missing link between a netbook and laptop with this brilliant Apricorn Aegis NetDock it will actually turn any netbook into a sort of small media centre. It is in fact a DVD Burner with four USB ports.

Features of the very handy Apricorn Aegis NetDock:

8 x DVD burner, 4 USB 2.0 ports with two of them in “always on” mode, a 500GB HDD, a 2.5-inch SATA HDD, it measures 6.25 inch x 5.75 inch x 2.13 inch

The Apricorn Aegis NetDock will be priced at $189

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HTC release capacitive stylus

Posted on February 25, 2010 by David Allen

Touchscreen displays are great, but a capacitive touchscreen can be very temperamental, however HTC appear to have the answer with this specially designed stylus that will work with the HTC ST C400.

It has been designed to use with the HTC HD2 smartphone, but there is no reason to think that this is not going to work with any other capacitive touchscreen device.

Features of the HTC Stylus

Description – A capacitive screen stylus pen is designed specifically for HTC HD2 with capacitive screen. It is perfect for enterprise applications, which require signature captu

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The DocuPen Colour \Scanner

Posted on February 19, 2010 by David Allen

At last a document scanner that actually fits inside your laptop bag, in fact if your pockets are large enough it may even fit inside them as well.

Whatever the transportation needs, this is a very handy device that is highly portable and has the capability of storing up to a hundred images at any one time, that’s a hundred pages of text in a device that is only nine inches long, cool!

Features of the DocuPen Colour Scanner:

•Rechargeable portable scanner

•No computer needed to scan! All images saved locally on the scanner

•8MB onboard, expandable

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The Stealth Switch

Posted on February 3, 2010 by David Allen

Have you ever been caught out looking at something that shouldn’t be on your computer, you would have wished that there was a little button that you could flick and hide whatever you are looking at or doing on your computer?

The Stealth Switch can literally save your life or career and make you realise that being sneaky is something that could cost you dear.

Product Features

•Program keystrokes, hotkeys, macros, mouse clicks to be executed at the tap of the discreet footswitch

•Supports up to 5 foot switches with optional slave footswitches (The main unit,

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Handy QWERTY Smartphone Keyboard

Posted on February 2, 2010 by David Allen

Smartphone’s and other mobile devices are much more easier to use with a keyboard, but these are often bulky and just awkward to use.

However as technology is changing all of the time it was only a matter of time until a company brought out a handy little QWERTY keyboard that has the similar functions as the mobile phone keyboard.

It is built in Korea so we should not be expecting this to be available anytime soon, but stranger things have happened.

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Handy portable scanner

Posted on January 14, 2010 by David Allen

Being out of the office or college is easy these days with laptops and mobile communications, but what if you need to scan a document for reference or to complete a piece of work?

This could be a problem, but not if you are carrying a portable handheld scanner, this one is one inch square and around ten inches long this makes it very handy to carry around and store in the laptop bag. There are all sorts of possibilities for a device such as this one.

Features – As you move the scanner over an area as large as 8 1/2″ H x 50″ L, its sensitive colour image senso

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