For $452, you can bag yourself a Noon Logan Solar Laptop case, which may seem a wee bit expensive but it will charge up your gadgets while you’re on the go.
The laptop bag features a flexible exterior solar panel, which charges an internal power bank.
You can then connect this bank up to your electrical kit.
Maybe someone could devise a bag that charges using rain drop power for the UK?

From pocket-lint

Medion has announced the Akoya P36888 home entertainment desktop PC that goes on sale at big Tesco stores, and via Tesco Direct, for £599.
Featuring a quad-core Intel processor with an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card, 3GB RAM, a 1TB hard drive and a Blu-ray high definition optical drive, Medion describe the machine as “high performance.”
Offering Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6660 2.4GHz chip with four execution cores, Medion says the computer can handle processor-intensive tasks whilst the NVIDIA GeForce 9300GS PCI-Express graphics card can run 3D games as well as Vista’s interactive features.
Other specs include eight-channel surround sound audio, dual TV tuner, an 8-in-1 memory card reader, six USB ports and a remote control.
With a gloss black finish, silver stripe and blue backlit triangular power button, the desktop PC comes bundled with Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium edition, Microsoft Works 9 with Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007 Trial Edition, Nero Burning ROM 8 Essentials and Nero Recode 2 Essentials.

From pocket-lint

Brilliant color at an affordable price

The Dell 2130cn Color Laser Printer offers professional-grade color printing along with a host of features designed to conserve resources. It offers fast output, simplified networking and the ability to continue printing in black with an empty color toner cartridge. And the 2130cn is easy on your bottom line with low cost-per-page color output. Compact and affordable, this printer is ideal for use in workgroups or satellite offices.

Professional Results

• The Dell 2130cn color Laser Printer delivers professional-quality color-laser printing.
• You get fast output of 16 pages per minute (ppm) color and 20 ppm black with a monthly duty cycle of up to 40,000 pages. Actual print speed will vary with use.
• The 2130cn delivers excellent image clarity through Automated color Space and Image Correction technology, which analyzes document content and optimizes image quality accordingly.
• Optional Wireless card

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Dream Cheeky once again brings us yet another questionably useful USB gadget. The USB Webmail Notifier reportedly works in the background to inform you of new emails by illuminating in blue, red or green. It even tells you the capacity of unread emails by audible alerts. Supposedly, a soft red illumination means an incoming email arrived in Gmail, but you can associate each of the three colors with a different email client.

The bundled software will work with Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express and any POP3 programs. One thing to keep in mind is that Dream Cheeky does the email authentication for you so you may want to make sure your password isn’t sent out as clear text or it would be a huge security risk. We do wonder how the USB Webmail Notifier handles a sudden influx of emails.

From Everything USB

LG Electronics announced over the weekend it will soon bring to market the first Network Attached Storage (NAS) device with an integrated Blu-ray drive to consumers. Meant for home and small business users, the four-bay NAS not only gives users support for hard drives with up to 4TB of storage but also the option of backing up data onto Blu-ray discs regardless of where they are at home.

The N4B1 includes a gigabit Ethernet jack along with three USB 2.0 connections in standard form. LG supports up to RAID 5 for joining the drives, but can also set them to RAID 0, 1, or 1+0 in addition to leaving each disk separate.
To reflect the intended consumer base for the N4B1, LG depends on a streamlined web-based graphic user interface meant to simplify managing the storage without depending on any one operating system. A version management system keeps track of what files have been downloaded and backed up, and will only transfer new files when performing routine back-up operations. The data written on each back-up CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc is cataloged to help the archiving process.
The N4B1 is compatible with Windows, Linux and Mac computers and networks, allowing any combination of the various operating systems to access the NAS simultaneously.
LG’s N4B1 NAS will be available starting in December, although LG has not announced pricing information.

From electronista

If you work in an office with lots of people or in a cubicle farm, odds are it does not always smell so good. It could be anything from the weird guy in the cubicle next door that doesn’t bathe as often as the others in the office would like, or maybe it’s the lady in the cubby next door that likes onions on everything. The Desktop USB Fragrance dispenser can mask the odor of your neighbors, but it can’t hide your geekiness.

This isn’t the first fragrance dispenser we have seen, but at least the one today doesn’t put oil right next to your computer. The desktop USB Diffuser is ultrasonic and works as a humidifier as well. The fragrance strength is adjustable and the device has a LED power indicator. Exactly what type of fragrance you put into the device is unknown. Since the device is ultrasonic, I doubt it would work with oils.

From Everything USB