Everyone seemed to be trying to break the 3TB barrier right now. We’ve seen Hitachi and Seagate announcing 3TB products, but now Western Digital is also getting into the spotlight. Their latest My Book Essential will house a 3TB drive, but that’s not all. It will also pack a USB 3.0 port on the rear and the same rounded black shell that we’re all familiar with.

The My Passport Essential and My Passport Essential SE lines are also being bumped to USB 3.0, with the former shipping in a 500GB version and the latter in 750GB / 1TB. Both of those guys are powered entirely over USB, with pricing starting at $99.99 for the 500 and running up to $249.99 for all your porn collection needs.

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Microsoft is supporting US National Breast Cancer Awareness Month in a small way. That small way, or product actually, is called the Wireless Mobile Mouse 4000. Still doing business as usual. The mouse also sports Microsoft’s new and ‘awesome’ Blue Track technology. The new pinky mouse will retail from now until the end of September of next year for $40, and contribute a $4 donation per sale to the Komen for the Cure charitable fund.

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And that’s a Droid with Cliq’s keyboard. Slider form factor, with hard-cap QWERTY keyboard, something that you’ll find on the Cliq. There’s also 8-Megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, capable of recording some 720p quality of Chinese scandal home video. There’s an extra VGA front-facing camera for your video calling needs if your Chinese girlfriend wanted to check where you are. TD-SCDMA radio, WAPI connectivity with Wi-Fi compatibility, and CMMB TV streaming are also present. The OPhone is powered by a 600MHz TI OMAP3430 with 480 x 854 resolution LCD screen, AGPS and Bluetooth 2.1. Now, will it be only available in China?

SOURCE via Motorola

White House Council on Environmental Quality Chairwoman Nancy Sutley and Energy Secretary Steven Chu has announced plans to bring new solar panels to the White House. Now, this is certainly great news, but not the first thought. President Jimmy Carter first did it in the 70s to heat the West Wing offices up, and George W. Bush (yeah!) did so as well during his ‘supremacy era’ to bring in solar panels to heat up the swimming pool (what the?). Well, a president has got to swim too ya know?

These latest rounds of panels are set to be installed in the spring and will provide hot water for the First Family, while PV cells will also “supply some electricity.” That “should” be enough to recharge all the smartphones in the White House.

SOURCE via Yahoo! NEWS

It’s been quite some time since monitor manufacturers marketing their monitors with awesome response time. These few years, it’s all about HD resolution, but now Samsung has announce a new ‘blink-and-you’ll-miss-it’ 1ms response time LCD monitor. Read more…

Gateway has announced a few new monitors to amaze you, and I’m already amazed. No, more specifically, I’m drooling. Their new 23-inch FHD2303L is easily one hell of a sexy LCD monitor, with transparent frame and an asymmetrical stand. There’s also the other two the glossy-bezel’d FHX2152L (21.5-inch) and FHX2402L (24-inch). Read more…

Do you consider a $999 headphone to be luxury and exotic? Let’s see what the above pictured open-back cans have that makes it luxury. Ruthenium as external plating for the cans, titanium-plated 40mm drivers, silver-plated copper wires with 99.99 percent purity and kevlar-coated cables, and of course, for that extra special touch, Ethiopian sheepskin earcup pads (real skin, not wool!). Yes, that sounds about right for a ‘luxurious and super high-end headphone. But the price is not your typical sub $1k. It’s priced at a whooping and jaw dropping and mind boggling and… what else? Ok, it’s priced at $2,745. Fancy having one? It’s exclusive you know? There’s only 2,010 units made.

According to StatCounter, IE’s global usage stats have fallen to 49.87 percent, a fraction of a tick beneath half. Firefox makes up the lion share of the rest, at 31.5 percent, while Chrome usage tripled since last year, up to 11.54 percent. They might have tripled, but the scores still ain’t impressive thought. Two years ago IE had two thirds of the global market locked down, and even if Internet Explorer 9 is the best thing since ActiveX, I don’t see it coming close to taking the mighty Internet throne back. Beware thought, as Chrome is the fastest growing browser of the moment. Firefox is more or less flat, but still huge.

SOURCE via Softpedia

Is Google too kind and sincere? Or felt pity and sympathy for the Apple fags that missed out the awesomeness of the Google Goggle?

Ten months after the first public build of Goggles hit the Android Market; the same amazingly cool app is now making waves on the iPhone. Rather than being a standalone app, Goggles is being wrapped into a new version of the Google Mobile App; users simply tap on the camera button to search using Goggles. Read more…

Enough with the ‘iPhone vs. Android’ already. Here’s another fact that further cement the proof of Android’s uprising and domination of the world. Android’s exponential growth has today been proven by Nielsen’s statisticians who present us with the above chart of recent US smartphone purchases. It shows that over the six months leading up to August 2010, 32 percent of American new phone buyers had grabbed themselves a device with Google’s OS on board, which is comfortably ahead of RIM at 26 percent and Apple at 25 percent. Read more…