Awesome Tech

Motorola’s Krave ZN4 features an interactive clear flip on the outside as well as a 2.8″ touchscreen; it works with Verizon’s V CAST media network along with bluetooth and a 2 MP camera.

The Ego Flash bluetooth handsfree unit sports a 1.6″ OLED display, reads back text messages, pairs with up to 10 phones and will even stream MP3s from your phone to your car stereo.

Toshiba’s Portege R600 is their flagship ultraportable laptop, weighing only 2.4 lbs and measuring 0.77″ thick. It has an LED-backlit display, a Super Multi drive and up to a 128GB SSD.

The USBConnect Quicksilver makes hooking laptops up to 3G/EDGE networks a breeze: they’ve crammed the whole modem into a tiny USB dongle. It’s free with an AT&T’s DataConnect plan.

Apple’s 24″ LED-backlit Cinema Display sports the same black bezel of its iMac and new MacBook lines; it’ll get 1920×1200, built-in iSight and mic, stereo speakers and a 3-port USB hub.

Exclusive to AT&T, the Pantech Matrix has a unique dual-sliding keyboard: QWERTY horizontally, a number pad vertically. It’s also 3G enabled with Bluetooth and A-GPS.

Blu-Ray just got a lot more affordable: Acer’s Aspire X3200 HTPC squeezes in a Blu-Ray drive alongside a 2.1GHz AMD CPU, 4GB RAM and a 640 GB HDD, all for only $680.

Along with the MacBook and MacBook Pro lines, the MacBook Air gets the new NVIDIA 9400M chipset which promises 4x faster graphics; also, a 120GB HDD and Mini Display port.

The MacBook Pro’s 15.4″ model gets a 0.95″ unibody case; it also sports an iMac-like bezel, multi-touch glass trackpad, NVIDIA 9400M chipset + 9600M GT and chiclet-style keyboard.

The 13.3″ MacBook finally gets a metal enclosure; also: a NVIDIA 9400M chipset, multitouch trackpad and LED-backlit display. It maxes out at 2.4 GHz and 2 GB RAM, and weighs 4.5 lbs.

Old-school AOL users, you’ve got mail: this USB-powered webmail notifier will light up in red, blue or green whenever you get mail; every instance can be associated with a sound.

For AT&T: Sony Ericsson’s W760a is the first Walkman with 3G speeds; you can also shake it to change music, like the iPod Nano. Other stats: 2.2″ screen, 3.2 MP camera and FM tuner.

We haven’t figured out a way to man them up yet, but these tiny 3.4cm tall Tomy Robo-Qs will be sure to delight the ladies by navigating around obstacles and just being ridiculously cute.

Calling Admiral Adama: this Battlestar Galactica case sports an actual LED-lit hangar bay, CIC screens, and a BSG crest that doubles as an optical drive; even the monitor is modded.

Akihabara News has a gallery of Robo Japan 2008; it’s a three-day event, with robots doing everything from climbing and crawling to fighting and flying. Not all at once, of course.

Dave, I think you should buy this: it looks like HAL, but LaCie’s 5Big only wants to save files. It features 5 swappable bays up to 7.5 TB, with USB 2.0 and SATA ports for external drives.