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I’ve been using an Apple aluminium keyboard at work for the last couple of weeks (after stealing it off the desk of a departing colleague), and can confirm that it is an amazingly comfortable surface on which to type. Only downside: The function keys are different from the ones on the laptop keyboard, so I keep hitting the wrong ones.

I got to play with the Optimus keyboard at CES yesterday, and it is incredibly cool looking, but didn’t feel like a terribly usable keyboard. But pretty? Boy howdy!

Best review I’ve seen of the Kindle so far. I’d be tempted to get one, but for the much-noted DRM restrictions. If I’m unable to “lend” or “borrow” e-books I’ve purchased, like I currently can with dead-tree, then it’s of no interest to me.

Video of the modules in the Bug Labs platform — Interlockable modules which can be combined on an open-source Java-based platform. The idea seems wicked cool — it’s just the unknown of price that’s going to dictate whether I buy one or not.

Cool-looking external disk storage array. Smarter than RAID — you can mix disk sizes, and add/upgrade drives on the fly — so it could be just the thang for backups around these parts.

Schulze & Webb are working on an open, social digital-radio-plus-wifi prototype for the BBC. Fascinating the way they hope to apply “open source” to hardware design.

500Gb External USB/Firewire drive, with a nifty ambient capacity gauge on the front.

2.5” solid-state SATA drives. How long until these are cheap enough to use in laptops?

Teensy palmtop Windows XP PCs. Got to poke at one a little today, and it is sweeeet.

Holy crapoly. Nintendo’s next-gen controller is a spectacular leap away from the standard.

“It is also possible to use the system to “underlay” a private message on a public display system.” Anyone else reminded of “They Live”?

I love Microsoft’s ergonomic keyboards, and am delighted to see that the next model will have the proper Home/End/Delete block layout.