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No doubt you’re familiar with the Universal Serial Bus – we ranked it as our top PC innovation of all time. But what do you know about the next version of this ubiquitous interface? USB 2.0 (otherwise known as USB Hi-Speed) boosted the original 12Mbps data rate to 480Mmb/s over eight years ago, and now USB 3.0 (dubbed USB Superspeed) is set to multiply that bandwidth tenfold. Intel released the Extensible Host Controller Interface to hardware partners last week after some reported disputes with AMD and Nvidia (who, afraid Intel would have a jump start in incorporating the tech in chipsets, threatened to develop their own USB standard). But how does this affect you?

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Samsung’s first 256GB SSD has just been publicly announced. For those that don’t know the MLC-flash SATA II drive has speeds of 200MBps and 160MBps sequential write. Awesome!

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Laptop users have more choices than ever, thanks to devices that are shrinking in size but retaining at least some of the horsepower of their larger brethren. It’s for this reason that ASUS Eee PC met with success upon its release last year, as it appeared to hit the sweet spot for a small, affordable device that delivers plenty of computing power.

Much of the ASUS Eee PC allure comes from its simplicity. Asus markets the Eee PC as a device that has no technical manual and works directly out of the box. Further, it’s compatible with a variety of lifestyles, particularly mobile-minded ones, because the Eee PC uses a solid-state drive that can withstand shocks and helps to conserve power. Of course, thanks to a form factor that’s roughly half the size of a standard notebook, the Eee PC is pretty darn portable.
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Apple’s touch keyboard makes a new appearance on a generous, two-million pixel slab.

There are secrets. Secrets you are not supposed to know about. Suppressed 200mpg automobile engines. Faster-than-light-speed travel technology we scavenged at Roswell. The location of Walt Disney’s cryogenically frozen body. The truth about the Masons. But none of these inspires as much discussion and theorizing as the one to which we turn our attention here: Apple’s next big product.

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This quite discrete “secret agent pen” features a built-in 1GB flash memory and it is capable or recording almost 3 hours of video with audio.

Sitting in your shirt pocket, standing in the pen cup or lying on the desk no-one will ever notice as you secretly capture their every move. The built in flash stores the video until it is ready to be downloaded to a computer via USB, and with 1GB of memory you’ll get almost 3 hours of recording time.

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