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Most people these days have houses full of digital gadgets and machines. From computers and laptops to mp3 players, televisions and gaming systems, Americans have a penchant for staying on the front edge of personal technology.

However, technology continues to move at a dizzying pace making products faster, smaller, more integrated and more efficient. To stay ahead of the curve, take a look at these product ideas given to us from Personal Tech Experts at BluePhone:

Mini Laptop - With enough processing power for most any kind of everyday use, and a small enough form factor to fit in many purses, mini laptops with screens from about seven to ten inches are a great option for people on the go, or looking for an ultra-sleek laptop computer. ASUS has been making the EEE-PC for a few years now, but has been making improvements that make them more and more viable as a true computer. Dell makes the Inspiron Mini 9, which has about the same form-factor as the EEE-PC, but comes backed by the well known Dell name. Neither one will hit the wallet very hard – both are about $300.Read more

By Jeff Zbar
www.chiefhomeofficer.com

I recall the old Apple IIC computer I used in my home office. Small as today’s notebook PCs, it had a monitor with a 8-inch screen, and a disk drive that took 5.25-inch floppies.

And that was it for memory. It had to boot up with the operating system in the drive. Once loaded, I’d have to load AppleWriter in order to process words. Want to save a doc? Slip in a floppy. Want to open a second doc? Close the first.

Today, PCs routinely have hundreds of gigabytes of storage — and even a gig or more of RAM.

But sometimes, that’s still not enough. The home officer, teleworker, telecommuter and road warrior thrives on portable storage — the ability to take stuff with you. Other World Computing’s Mercury On-The-Go high speed portable storage drive is just such a solution. Read more

Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Seagate Technology has the essential tools to help people hold on to the passing days of summer. All of those precious memories from summer vacations that have been captured in digital photos can now be secured and preserved forever. Earlier this month, Seagate introduced the Maxtor OneTouch 4 line of storage solutions, which are designed to help people secure a reliable back up of all their digital media assets. Seagate demonstrates this commitment to safeguarding your digital music, images and videos against loss and damage with the company's five-year warranty, unprecedented in the industry.

Each digital storage solution comes loaded with a suite of software to provide easy ways for people to manage their digital media and ensure that these files are there when needed most. No need to have anxiety about returning to the routine of school and work or the passing of the season, Maxtor's storage solutions have all your memories and music backed up, so you can always refer back to those fun days of summer. Read more

June 14, 2006 — Seagate Technology today introduced a breakthrough way for consumers, creative pros and small business owners to quickly find, share, organize, view and enjoy their digital content and files. The new Maxtor Fusion™ personal media solution from Seagate provides one safe, central location on your network to hold large amounts of digital photos, videos, music and documents. It includes a simple, yet powerful interface and a rich web application, licensed from software maker Fabrik Inc., that makes it easy and fast to organize, retrieve, access, blend and assemble all types of multimedia content for sharing personal experiences, events and memories with others over the web, either privately or publicly in a secure manner. Read more

April 17, 2006 – To meet fast-growing market demand for portable storage, Maxtor Corporation today announced it is shipping the new Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition drive, the company’s first small form factor external storage solution. Designed with the mobile professional in mind, the slim, elegant and portable solution is the latest addition to the award-winning Maxtor OneTouch product family. Weighing in at approximately seven ounces, it is the first mobile storage solution in the industry that comes fully loaded with the latest software innovations to protect and manage digital content, including automated backup, data encryption, data synchronization and system rollback to restore applications and operating system while keeping digital files current. Read more

April 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The way people access, share, view and experience digital content is quickly evolving, and storage pioneer Maxtor is introducing several new products to address these changing consumer needs. Mike Williams, vice president and general manager, Maxtor Branded Products, today presented the future of storage innovation, and outlined a series of new products that Maxtor will make available through its retail and distributor channels during the second quarter. Read more

June 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Maxtor Corporation today unveiled its new Maxtor OneTouch II drive with a FireWire 800 interface. Ideal for creative professionals, computer power users and digital content creators, the drive delivers up to 800Mbit per second data transfer rates to quickly transfer and store high-resolution graphics, digital audio/video, heavy multimedia files, photos and more. Mac or PC users simply plug the Maxtor OneTouch II drive into any FireWire 800-enabled computer and are able to store their valuable data in seconds.

Sept. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Simple, safe and powerful describe the new Maxtor OneTouch II drive, the next generation of Maxtor Corporation's (NYSE:MXO) award-winning external drive family that allows consumers to easily back up family photos, MP3 music collections, and other important personal and business data with a simple touch of a button. No high tech knowledge is required to set up the new drive, giving consumers no excuse to not backup their computers.Read more

Sept. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Maxtor today announced that it is shipping its new Maxtor SATA Ultra16 Hard Drive Kits. As the only retail hard drive featuring a 16MB buffer and offering best-in-class 7200RPM performance, Maxtor's new Ultra16 kits are perfect for consumers who want to upgrade their systems for an improved multimedia, computing and gaming experience. The new Ultra16 Hard Drive Kits come with a high-performance Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive and offer capacities up to 300GB, allowing consumers to store 5,000 hours of their favorite MP3s, 230,000 digital photos (JPEG) or 144 high-definition video games.

Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Maxtor today announced that it is shipping its new Maxtor DiamondMax 10 hard drives to OEMs and channel partners around the world. Based on an integrated, single-chip native SATA solution, the new DiamondMax 10 drives feature native command queuing (NCQ), the company's proprietary dual-processor technology, and a new 16MB buffer to deliver unparalleled speeds compared to traditional 7200 RPM drives in their class. This unique set of features, coupled with Maxtor's latest firmware technology, allows the drive to self-balance system workloads for more efficient hard drive operations, which helps consumers run multiple applications at the same time, such as games and music, without overwhelming their PC systems.Read more