There was a time not all that long ago where Mad Catz was a brand associated with cheap gaming accessories that no one really cared all that much about. After the acquisition of Saitek, the company really turned things around. I had the pleasure of checking out their latest line of products, each one a quality piece of hardware. In fact, the first one I’m going to show you isn’t even related to gaming.

We’ve seen a number of solutions for controlling your living room PC and Mad Catz has their own. Under the Eclipse

The ASUS  nettop, which had given us a taste of how intelligent such devices can be last month, is now arriving with a luring addition. The ASUS Eee Box EB1501 has now been incorporated with an optional upgrade of a Blu-ray drive. The arrival of a Blu-ray drive is seen by the PC maker as bringing in more popularity for the device.

Originally available with features such as Intel Atom N330 dual core processor, plus RAM configurations available of up to 4GB (DDR2-800), the ASUS Eee Box EB1501 now spruced up with Blu-ray is

It is time for this weeks Geeky Gadgets Giveaway, this weeks prize is a new 2GB iPod Shuffle, and you can choose which color iPod Shuffle you would like to receive as your prize.

The contest is free to enter, and it is open to Geeky Gadgets readers from anywhere in the world, just follow the instructions below on how to enter.

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Week One: 20,000 units. Thus reads the sales figure for Google’s Nexus One when the first week since launch came to a close. Not so smart numbers indeed for such a smartphone that rode on so much pre-launch hype.  If you thought the 20000 number is fairly okay, take a look at what the rival phones had pocketed. While the Motorola DROID touched 2,50,000, the Phone 3GS registered sales of 1,600,000 units in a week after launch. So where does that leave Nexus One?

While industry observers have termed the sales figure as

LEGO had a fairly decent-sized booth at this year’s CES showing off their slightly-delayed LEGO Universe game which will finally be released sometime this year. And sure, playing around in their bricktastic online MMOG was fun, but LEGO, you had me at “Build your own minifig!” And let me say thanks for not strictly enforcing that “One minifig per person” limit.

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We’ve all played with and love (or hate) multitouch, and multitouch support probably one of the first things people ask when faced with touchscreen devices nowadays. So far multitouch has mostly been confined to mobile phones and similar gadgets (aside from a few notebooks here and there), but could it become an integral part of an office suite in the future? An article from the NY Times indicates that Apple has been busy working on a multitouch version of iWork, and this could mean that Apple could be envisioning its iSlate tablet

Google [Goog] recently launched their Nexus One Android mobile phone in the US, and now it looks like the rest of us in Europe will shortly be getting our hands on the Google ‘Superphone’.

Engadget are reporting that Vodafone have confirmed that the Google Nexus One will be available in the UK within a couple of weeks, and then the rest of Europe including, France and Germany later in the year.

The Google Nexus one is a Google Android smartphone, made by HTC,  and it

The wait has got over, finally. Plastic Logic, which had been giving us sneak peeks of its e-reader that will be known as Que proReader has unveiled the device after making us all wait for more than a year. The CES at Las Vegas proved to be a perfect platform for Plastic Logic to announce the arrival of its new Que proReader.

The CES platform saw demos of the final version of the device. To begin shipping in April, the Que will be made available to customers at the Barnes & Noble stores and at BN.com as well as from Plastic

[CES 2010] Pegatron, the OEM manufacturing arm of Asustek, has come up with the Pegatron slate (not the official name), which joins in on the tablet PC party at CES 2010. The device sports an 11.6-inch touchscreen, and will be powered by Windows 7 Home Premium. Specifications of the device include an Intel Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM, 32GB SSD, built-in webcam and also HDMI connectivity. On paper it doesn’t seem to have any distinguishing feature compared to other tablets out there, but let’s see how it’s marketed when it’s

Traveling with a compact power bar of some sort is a necessity these days, which is why I sincerely hope this Cute Cube power adapter concept becomes a reality, and soon! Designed by Zhang Xi, Wang Hui, Miao Yingying, Zhou Xing and Cai Yun and winner of a most deserved Red Dot Design Award, the Cute Cube is nothing more than your run-of-the-mill power bar, but in a vastly improved package.

First of all the compact cube shape makes it easy to carry in a laptop bag or suitcase, but it also ensures the sockets aren’t