A few weeks back we played with the Logitech G19 keyboard and were well impressed by the features and blown away by the pretty much pointless LCD screen, yes there is an LCD screen on a keyboard. What is not so cool is the R2500 price tag that comes with the specific keyboard. The solution is easy, release a keyboard pretty much the same as the G19 just without the LCD screen; that is what the G110 is.

Logitech G110 Gaming Keyboard

Logitech MK605

The Logitech Notebook Kit MK605 is everything you need: a wireless mouse, a wireless keyboard and a laptop riser. What I love about this kit is it’s simplicity; Logitech has really put emphasis on a minimalistic design with a lot of focus on less clutter, we know how much you hate all those wires causing havoc in your workspace.

On top of the great looking design, the black finished off with a neat gold trim, the wireless mouse and wireless keyboard both use the cool Logitech Unifying technology that allows you to connect up to 6 compatible wireless mice and keyboards to a tiny little receiver.

The kit is expected to be available in the South Africa in January for around R999 which is a steal for what you are actually getting. Now just to get my hands on one.

Logitech Darkfield

Logitech have taken the computer mouse where no mouse has gone before. With Logitech® Darkfield Laser Tracking™, you can use your mouse virtually anywhere you want – including clear glass and high-gloss surfaces. This new technology is available in the Logitech® Performance Mouse MX™ and the Logitech® Anywhere Mouse MX™, giving you the option of a full-size mouse or a more compact, notebook mouse. Now I can finally use my magazine collection as a mouse pad!

In addition to providing unsurpassed cursor control, both of the new Logitech mice feature the recently announced Logitech® Unifying receiver. The tiny wireless receiver stays in your notebook, so there’s no need to unplug it when you move around. Plus, you can easily add up to five other compatible Logitech keyboards and mice to the single receiver.

The Logitech Performance Mouse MX is available in the South Africa for a suggested retail price of R 1 199.00. The Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX is expected to be available in South Africa later this year for a suggested retail price of R999.00.

Logitech® has just announced their latest Bluetooth® Mouse, the M555b. This handy travel mouse is small, elegant, connects easily via Bluetooth® and looks dam nice.

Logitech 504 M555b

The laser tracking gives you smooth responsive cursor control on almost any surface. It also sports 1000 dpi which gives you great accuracy.

You do need a Bluetooth® enabled Netbook or Laptop to use it. The mouse will be available in October and will set you back R599.

Washable Keyboard

How irritating is it when you have have bits of food and/or dirt in between the letters of your keyboard? Well I hate it! I often find myself trying to get bits of dirt out with a tooth pick or the end of my clutch pencil.

Just by chance I came across this gem, a keyboard that can withstand your bucket and cloth and allow you to really give your keyboard a great scrub down. Yes, this keyboard is washable. You can completely submerse it in water, even soapy water at that. Then if you think that is not enough how about a session in the dishwasher, yes the keyboard is dishwasher friendly!

If you are intrested in it, get it at firebox.com, couple it with the desktop vacuum cleaner and your desktop will be clean for ever.

Brand Keyboard

Every now and then we get a really cool gadget that graces our blog. This however must be one of the coolest and one of those pure ingenious ideas to date. Meet the brand keyboard!

The person who created this idea really captures how powerful brands have become and how instantly the human brain car figure out F for Facebook and Z for Zippo. Check out the “artists” site.

It is a pitty that it is actually not real but I would definitely take one. It would be a bit hard for those single finger typers who spend half the time already looking for the key to push.

Brand Keyboard

Well when I saw this I immediately realised what it was, a useless and potentially irritating piece of hardware. Combimouse have created a device that will bridge the divide between mouse and keyboard forever!

Combimouse

Great idea we think, but I really can’t imagine typing on a keyboard that has some of its keys moved around might take a bit of getting used to and lets not forget those irritating time when your keyboard thinks it is actually a mouse and doesn’t do what you want to do.

This product was invented by Ari Zagnoev and has already been sent to Wichita State University to be “extensively tested”. I don’t know how well this product is going to do but there may be someone willing to type while the click.

Having a a huge LCD monitor on your desk is always awesome especially from the 24″ and upwards bracket. However when we saw this 43″ monitor from NEC we instantly fell in love.

NEC 43 inch Curved LCD

NEC just announced their amazing 43 inch curved LCD monitor and is getting a lot of attention, this may b e do to the fact that it is extremely hard to miss. This monstor of a screen will fit nicely across any desk and will set you back a mammoth R80 000 plus, so you won’t be seeing it on many desks around the world let alone South Africa.

Actual specs include an 2880 x 900 resolution (double WXGA), 10,000:1 contrast ratio, DVI/HDMI inputs, and built-in USB hub.

Now just to organise a review…

Here is the American press release:

CHICAGO – June 4, 2009 – NEC Display Solutions of America, a leading provider of commercial LCD displays and projectors, today announced the 43″ NEC CRV43 ultra-widescreen specialty desktop display, designed for use in applications such as professional graphics, higher education, government, financial, command & control and home office.

The NEC CRV43 curved display can be seen at InfoComm 09 on June 17-19 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.

The unique NEC CRV43 curved display provides a much wider field of view and greater dynamic range with its double WGXA resolution (32:10 aspect ratio). The user’s taskbar is extended natively and setup is made easy to configure with one input. These features make it an ideal solution for simulation, digital imaging and command & control.

“The NEC CRV43 curved display provides an excitingly immersive viewing experience for any type of user,” said Keith Yanke, Director of Product Marketing for NEC Display Solutions. “Its lightning-fast response time coupled with its seamless curved screen provides enhanced comfort, decreased frustration and increased productivity. The monitor eliminates the bezel and screen gap issues that have complicated users’ work environment for years.”

The NEC CRV43 curved display includes the following features:
* Seamless curved screen, which eliminates bezel and screen gap issues for increased productivity and decreased frustration (according to Center for Human-Computer Interaction – Shupp et al, presented at Graphics Interface 2006)
* 2880 x 900 double WXGA native resolution
* 200 cd/m² brightness
* 0.02ms Rapid Response
* 10,000:1 contrast ratio
* Wide color gamut with 100% coverage of sRGB and 99.3% coverage of Adobe RGB
* Single link DVI-D and HDMI 1.3 input connectors
* USB 2.0 connectivity for easy use of peripherals
* Front panel controls
* On Screen Display (OSD®) and software-based GUI, which enables advanced display control options

USB Vacuum Cleaner

We are a big fan of cool pointless gadgets that offer the most minimal functionality and when we found the coolest little retro USB powered vacuum cleaner we were jumping around with joy.

This little 20 centimeters device is perfect for any desk and will reach every corner with a meter long cable.

Don’t be surprised if you walk in on us doing a bit of desk spring cleaning.

Asus Eee Keyboard

ASUS announced earlier this year that they would be building a computer that fits into a keyboard. Really?

ASUS have revealed their prototype for what will be dubbed the ASUS Eee Keyboard and first impressions are good. It looks really good and has many cool features that will make it a neat thing to have on your desktop.

So we now know it is not just an ordinary keyboard. It has a full PC inside it, has a mic input and a headphone jack, good old monitor output (rumours of HDMI ports) and a 5 inch 800 x 480 pixel touch screen display/track pad.

Asus should be releasing a new updated version in a few weeks and we wait to see what else have been done as they come closer to the finished product.