Love irritating people with your silly pranks? If yes, then this usb "shock" drive is just for you. The $4 gizmo is one of the coolest prank-device I've ever seen. It ain't a typical pen drive -- the prank toy looks and feels like real, but when you take off the cap, your another hand will get an electric shock! What's more, the shock is strong enough to make people scream. Loved the idea and want to buy one? Hit the product page, it is now available for $4 with additional $5 shipping charges.

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OCZ has designed the Core Series SATA II solid state disk for the masses. According to the company, the prices of its latest SSDs are 50% less (price per gigabyte) than other high speed offerings currently on the market. So what are the pricing? Well, the Core series comes in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities, each priced at $169, $259 and $479 respectively.

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Wondering what's new from the house of USB Brando? Well, this around the firm has actually cranked a very useful device -- the SATA HDD Multi-Function Dock with One Touch Backup. Generally, Brando is known for their weird gizmos which are of no practical utility, but not this time. With the SATA HDD dock you can easily create backup of your hard drive using One Touch backup button.

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Other World Computing (OWC) recently announced a new external portable hard drive -- the Mercury On-The-Go. According to OWC, the Mercury is the highest capacity 7200RPM portable bus-powered storage solution on the market. The 2.5" drive comes with 320GB storage capacity, 60% higher capacity than any other 7200RPM 2.5" drive.

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Patriot Memory today added a solid state disk to their flash offerings. The new disk will be available with up to 256GB storage capacity and will come in 2.5" or 3.5" form factor. "We are excited to offer consumers solid state drives, the latest in computing technology," said Meng Jay Choo, Flash Product Manager for Patriot Memory.

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Toshiba has announced "industry's highest-capacity" series of SATA 1.8-inch HDDs. The new 5,400 RPM HDDs come in single-platter 80GB and dual-platter 160GB models, with 8MB buffer, micro-SATA connector, Serial-ATA 1.5Gb/s interface and 5,400 RPM spin speed. The new Toshiba 160GB drive, MK1617GSG, and an 80GB drive, MK8017GSG, will enter mass production in August.

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AMD and NVIDIA have decided they're done waiting for Intel to give them the data they need to create USB 3.0 compliant products, and plan to launch their own spec to launch against the USB 3.0 data protocol. Intel says they haven't finalized the spec and want to prevent people from developing hardware based on multiple versions. AMD and NVIDIA aren't satisfied with such an answer and feel Intel is trying to gain a sizeable lead on market share.

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The growing popularity of superfast solid state disks is giving nightmares to traditional hard drive manufacturers. So to counter the highly efficient SSDs, Western Digital is planning to release a 20,000 rpm version of it's Raptor hard drive. The 2.5" drive is very similar to recently released VelociRaptor, and will come in a custom 3.5-inch housing.

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SanDisk today introduced a new line of flash memory-based solid-state drives that are designed for ultra low cost PCs and mini-notebooks. The SanDisk pSSD eliminates the need for a hard disk drive and can store both the operating system and application data for these new devices. The drives are available with up to 16GB storage capacity, with a streaming read speed of 39MB/s and write speed of 17MB/s.

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Seagate today introduced the Savvio 10K.3 hard drive – the world’s highest-capacity, small form factor 2.5-inch enterprise hard drive. This latest generation of 2.5-inch drive from Seagate offers 70% lower power and greater than 60% performance density over traditional 3.5-inch drives.

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Did you see Lam sweating it out in his Wii Fit review? Did that cause you rush out to the store, hands trembling with anticipation, in an attempt to procure one for yourself? Of course it did, but you probably came home empty-handed because the thing was basically sold out weeks before it even launched. And now we know why: the US Dollar sucks, and it's causing the notoriously conservative Nintendo to shift stock to places like Europe and Japan.

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Now isn’t this one of the more unique alarm clocks you have laid your eyes upon? Sure, it won’t be able to just fly off when it rings or roll off the table to hide under your bed, but at least it offers what other alarm clocks can’t - an additional four USB 2.0 ports to further increase your connectivity on your desk. Guess this means you’d best place this at your office table instead of in the bedroom. Each of the USB 2.0 ports will be able to be rotated to 90 degrees, making it a snap to use up all four ports without interfering with one another.

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If you have not yet moved on to the world of MP3s fully with your music collection, chances are you will still have a bunch of CDs stacked away somewhere, neglected and unloved. Why not take some time off to store all of them properly in this USB Storage Carousel?

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One Laptop per Child announced today that work is already underway on a second-generation version of its XO laptop. The firm said that the primary goal of the “XO-2” will be to advance new concepts of learning as well as to further drive down the cost of the laptop so that it is affordable for volume purchase by developing nations. The XO-2 will be about half the size of the first generation XO and will approximate the size of a book.

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Sony loyals rejoice as the firm has announced two new pen drives with up to 16GB capacity and 31MB/s read transfer speeds in a compact and unique design. Both the MicroVault Click and Click Excellence ranges incorporate a neat ‘click’ design to uncover and retract the USB connector for quick and easy use. The MicroVault Click Excellence range is available in a stylish, compact, ivory design, complete with LED indicator display which illuminates while transferring the data.

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