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Kurtis Kronk
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Jan. 21, 2007

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SanDisk & Kingston

We noticed a bit of a trend with the memory folks this year. As we all know, kids are growing up with technology all around them and they're quite tech-savvy as a result. So to serve the growing need of data portability for the youngsters, companies like SanDisk and Kingston are making fun little USB drives. Some just look cool, some are squishy, and some even stack like Lego blocks.

For all the big boys and girls out there, SanDisk was launching the new Cruzer USB drive, which I had a chance to play with at the booth. While I can't quote any transfer speeds, I can say that the mechanism used to reveal/hide the USB connector was unlike any I've seen, and I could easily see myself fidgeting with it while brainstorming in the office. Rather than try to explain how it works, I'll just get one for review and take a short video of it, and of course I'll test out transfer speeds while I'm at it. They'll also be sending me some of their newer CF cards so I can update my CF Card Round-Up in the near future.

Samsung

At Samsung's booth we noticed they were showing off their new 226BW 22" Widescreen LCD monitor, about a week after we posted our 225BW review of course. The monitor styling has been totally redesigned (for the better, in my opinion), and specs have been upped a little as well. Brightness is increased from 280 to 300 cd/m2. Response time is lowered from 5ms to 2ms (G to G).

Fujitsu

Max and I drooled a bit on Fujitsu's spread, for which we apologize, but we couldn't help it. They were showing off a couple of prototypes that caught our eye, I'll start with the blue Gameboy'ish foldy thing. This wasn't a working model, but it was rocking an LCD, what looked like game controls (though we were told the buttons are intended as DVD controls), and a full fold-out keyboard with a touchpad. Oh, and it also has a slot drive, for gobbling up the aforementioned DVDs.

The other cool toy we were looking at was an extremely lightweight and thin notebook, and it was a working model, running Vista no less. The rep wasn't able to tell us exactly how much it weighed, but I'd guess it was between 3-4lb. Maybe less. Contrast that with my 7.9lb monster notebook, and you'll see why I was drooling. I'm not sure why Max was drooling though, it's a little creepy now that I think about it.

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