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 creative minds at Ion have recently announced a new product named ‘iType’. The product holds your iPhone firmly in place, and converts it into a mini workstation of sorts. Note the full QWERTY keyboard in all its glory. The idea here is to give iPhone users a full QWERTY keyboard to punch out notes, emails, whatever… and is clearly aimed at the power-user in need of a full keyboard to jam out emails at full speed.

As simple and easy-to-use as the iType looks, there are

What if you are forced to reveal passwords of your computer or encryption key but you have to protect the information inside your computer?

In some circumstances, you may not be able to refuse to disclose username and password of your computer or you may be forced or pressurized to log onto your computer. For example, extortion or laptop search at an airport or border.

Here is how you can protect the data in such situations. First you create and configure a forced account in your computer. A forced account is a computer user account that

Put your kids on the path to a long and satisfying career in the field of bio-engineering with Mattel’s new Xtractaurs dinosaur toys. A $20 starter kit comes with what appears to be a T-Rex as well as an ‘extraction gun’ which is used to sample the dinosaur’s DNA. The gun is connected to your PC and the DNA data gets uploaded to the Xtractaurs website where the sampled dinosaur then comes to life.

But instead of just playing with their dinosaur, kids actually uses them to battle the evil

Are you looking for some extra screen real estate on your laptop? Instead of upgrading to a larger laptop, why not just park another screen next to the one you already use? The Cinq is a 10-inch USB monitor that you can hang on the side of your screen, giving you some extra space.

It’s not just a screen, it also has an SD card reader attached. Sure it looks like a rear view mirror for laptops, but it could come in handy. It will be released in the third quarter of this year for

As a kid(Or even an adult) how many times have you tried to use the force to lift your X-wing toy as if you were Yoda extracting it from the swamp. Sadly, your efforts always fail so you heat up another hot-pocket and get back to your nerd message boards.

Well now you really can control your own X-wing, even if it isn’t with the power of your mind. The RCX4 Star Stryker Helicopter is a remote-controlled X-Wing with four helicopter propellers on board. It can hover in place as well as fly in all directions. But sadly I see

Popbox is the latest product by Syabas Technology, and it’s a set top box which is designed to centralize and organize your home media, with the added capability of accessing web content as well. It’s relatively small in size, compared to other similar products – measuring only 7 inches in length, it should fit anywhere in your home easily.

The device’s video processor can decode 1080p video files with ease, and it doesn’t even need extra cooling – there are no fans in the box, making it

Technically it’s just another speaker system designed to be strapped to a pregnant belly to provide the fetus with music to further its mental development before it’s even born. But the Ritmo Advanced Sound System can also be used to talk to your baby while it’s still in the womb with your iPhone, so in a roundabout way, it’s kind of like your fetus’ first cellphone. Sure, the only response it can give is a kick or two, but to be honest there are plenty of times when I’d love to be able to kick someone on the

Skype is the future of video chats is a long established fact but things should never be taken for granted even if you are the best in business. Skype tends to follow this mantra and that is the reason why the service has been so successful.

The latest feather in Skype’s cap is the collaboration with LG and Panasonic that will see Skype as a built-in feature in the internet laden TV sets. All this means that if you possess a Panasonic or an LG HDTV, Skype could very well be a part of your living room and not just the

iPhone cases were everywhere at CES this year. You couldn’t go past more than a few booths without someone showing off their latest designs. Most cases were similar to others on the market, but with a different pattern, or a slightly different feel. It was always a refreshment to see something that actually brought something new to the world of iPhone cases. One in particular from Case-Mate caught my eye as I was exploring their booth.

Here in Vegas there is little reason to carry around a bulky wallet. I don’t need