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I’m always annoyed when I have to check my USB flash drive’s free space with a few mouse clicks. As a winner of the Innovations award at CES 2007, Lexar’s JumpDrive Mercury really makes life easier for us. Why didn’t any other manufacturer think of what Lexar did – to equip USB flash drive with a capacity meter that lets you monitor its space usage?

Just when we thought the DELL XPS M1710 is gonna top the most powerful notebook computer for this year, PC MicroWorks released the a duo core SLI capable notebook computer – the Vega. It seems that the best things come in pair for the Vega, it is powered by AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core processor, jaw dropping dual 512MB nVidia Geforce Go 7950GTX or dual 512MB nVIDIA Quadro FX 2500M SLI GPUs, and dual 160 GB SATA hard drives (it also offers options for up to 600GB Perpendicular at 4200RPM).

Following Dopod and ETEN’s foot steps, Asus announced their first GPS-enabled Pocket PC, the Asus P535 on Wednesday. This new model is powered by Intel Xscale 520MHz processor, 64 MB SDRAM, 256 MB NAND flash memories, and Microsoft Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition (AKU3.2). Asus is targeting the P535 at the Asian Pacific market, with retail price of around US$740 (23,900 TWD in Taiwan).

We have seen many MP3 wrist watches which also let you store digital files via USB interface, how often do you see a wrist watch that lets you play video files? Thanko has a MP4 watch on their web based store, supporting video playbacks in MP4 (NXV) format, as well as audio playbacks in MP3 and WMA formats.

The Turbolinux Wizpy is not only a Linux based portable media player that plays MP3, Ogg, WMA, AAC and DivX formats, it’s also a portable Linux drive which lets you plug and boot into Turbolinux’s own Linux OS—Turbolinux FUJI on any PC.

ADS Technologies launches their new video conversion device, the Instant Video To-Go yesterday, offering conversion speed of up to 5 times faster than real time (video length) comparing with regular software conversion which usually takes 4-10 times longer than real time. The Instant Video To-Go is industry’s first hardware-based H.264 conversion solution for consumers, allowing users to convert popular video formats including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, VOB (unprotected), DivX and Quicktime.

If you have a large and decent LCD monitor for your computer, you might wanna utilize it for watching TV shows. If you have subscription to any NTSC cable TV service or if you live in a region with over-the-air ATSC HDTV service, the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR-950 should be one of your top considerations. This hybrid USB TV stick comes with Hauppauge’s WinTV2000 application for watching and recording TV show and WinTV-Scheduler for scheduled recording function.