New cute flash drive disguised as a mini hard drive

This new flash drive from infoThink is one of the coolest looking memory sticks seen in a long time, it’s 8GB disguised as an internal hard drive from your PC or laptop. There is still only a 8GB version available, but let’s hope they will make larger versions as well in the future when this hopefully becomes a hit.

The pen drive sits in a real metal housing and has blue glowing accents. Get this drive as the perfect novelty gift for your techie friends.

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10 Spectacular Computer Keyboards

You probably have a plain black keyboard for your PC or a silver keyboard for your Apple. But why keep it boring and generic? Why not spice up your desktop with one of the keyboards from the list below?

The keyboards in the list are more or less useful, but one thing they all have in common is that they can replace your current keyboard in some situations. Granted you cannot write an essay with the Peregrine Gaming Glove, but then you can do something with that which you cannot do with your plain old keyboard.

The Kitty keyboard didn't make the list because you can't actually type on it, but wouldn't it look nice on your desktop?

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Fujitsu slashes profit target by 42 percent after Thai floods disrupt output

Japan’s largest computer services provider announced this week that it has adjusted it’s profit target for this fiscal year by 42 percent, and they blame the tragic floods in the fall of 2011 in Thailand that paralyzed most of the worlds hard drive production and many other electronics factories were also forced to shut down in Thailand as they were fully submerged under water.

Original estimates by the Japanese computer giant suggested a profit of ¥60 billion ($790 million) in the fiscal year ending March 31st 2012. However the latest estimates suggest that the net income will instead be down to ¥35 billion ($459 million).

Fujitsu President Masami Yamamoto said last month that the company may miss its target to sell 6.6 million personal computers this fiscal year after floods in Thailand delayed supplies of hard-disk drives.