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PICO: The smallest projector we have ever seen!

The Optoma Pico PK101 is a projector that's so small it fits easily in your pocket. Yet it is able to show videos from your media player or mobile phone at up to 60in on any surface. Totally portable, the Optoma Pico Pocket projector comes supplied with batteries to give you complete freedom on the move and it's fully rechargeable. The latest LED technology gives the Pico astonishing image quality and a lamp-life of an amazing 20 thousand hours: enough for more than 18 years of life, even if you use the projector three hours a day, every single day of the year. The Pico will be available from us from the end of February.

 Desk mount your new iMac

You can now attach your big screen monitors or iMac to a desk mount articulating arm, wall mount, or other VESA compliant mounting system having the 100mm x hole pattern. This new attachment uses the cable hole on the back of the iMac Match it with an Ergotron MX Desk Mount LCD Arm and you will be able to raise your iMac to eye level and lift it clear of your desk to increase working space. The arm will support up to 13.3kg.


 


Passport to smart storage

Of all the myriad external hard drives out there, we're particularly impressed with Western Digital's My Passport range -- not least because they are so compact they fit perfectly in your pocket. The Essential model is a USB drive and comes in a range of colours primarily for PC use and offers capacities of 640/500/320/250GB; the SE comes in any colour as long as it's black and offers 1TB and 750GB, while there's also a matching Passport for Mac. In fact Mac users do rather well as there's also a silver Studio model with firewire 400/800 and capacities of 500/400/320GB.

Amazing Apple iPad: 'it just works'

The wait is over, the iPad has landed. Apple's tablet looks much as expected, a big, 0.5in thin iTouch with a 9.7 touch screen that weights just 1.5lbs. It comes in 16 ($499), 32 ($599) and 64GB ($699) Flash storage versions with wireless and Bluetooth. 3G will be available in later versions for $130 more. Apple says they should ship world-wide in April with international 3G deals available in June/July. Highlights of the new iPad are iBooks, Apple's new online bookstore and an impressive special iPad version of iWork. Most iPhone apps also work and of course iTunes and iPhoto are fully supported. For a while you can see the presentation at http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/1001q3f8hhr/event/index.html

Geek Barbie stands in Linux middleground

Geek Barbie (or computer engineer, as she prefers to be called) is the  the first Barbie profession chosen by popular vote. And she's unlikely to upset PC or Mac users as her pink laptop appears to be running Linux.  She also features a binary code T-shirt, pink geek specs and a bluetooth headset. The set also comes with a special code that unlocks career-themed content online.

Share USB devices over an Ethernet connection

The AXIS OfficeBasic print server is a network print server for small offices and local networks. With support for Windows and MacOS networks, AXIS OfficeBasic shares any USB or parallel printer over the network in PC and Mac environments.