Toshiba unveils a new crop of high performing portable hard disk drives into the market which includes an HDD with half-terabyte capacity. These new HDDs under the Toshiba MKxx56GSY series boast of a 7200 RPM speed and a 2.5” thickness while at the same time adding a touch of eco-friendliness by reducing the use of toxic and hazardous chemicals.

The other features that these new hard disk drives offer include extended battery life at lower power consumption and faster start-up operations. The new Toshiba MKxx56GSY series HDDs are great for various uses that include productivity-oriented, data-intensive and gaming applications.

These new breed of HDD drives from Toshiba are already available and are scheduled to enter volume production by the fourth quarter of this year.

(Source) Press

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If you are tired of the usual leather or silicone-based casing for your iPhone or iPod, here is something that may be of interest. Carrying some old western style for people who want a unique iPhone casing to use, SouthernBrand unveils their new cowhide iPhone covers for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

They are handmade from premium tri-color brindle cowhide and boast of a soft suede and backed brown tanned leather. These cowhide iPhone/ iPod covers retail for only $29.

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The age of tape recorders are gone and in their place comes handy mobile devices such as the slim A33 voice recorder from SAFA.

The said recorder has been launched in the Korean market and boast of 264 hours of recording time. The A33 features A-B repeat function, 2GB of storage capacity and more. It is available in white silver and dark silver.

Though nothing was mentioned on whether this new slim voice recorder would be available in the U.S. or any other country, it should not be surprising to see it make its way into other markets.

(Source) Aving

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