Similar to Toshiba’s Mobile Monitor, Lenovo has announced a new portable LCD called the ThinkVision LT1421. It’s a 14-inch 16:9 display, and combined with the screen already on your notebook it will give you a lot more screen real-estate or can also provide display mirroring. It uses a picture frame stand on the back and has 16-levels of brightness. The display is angle adjustable and comes with a cover to protect it on the go. The display is very portable and will make it much easier to get more screen space on the road.

Lenovo is mum on the hard specs of the screen right now, but considering that the thing only needs a single USB connector for power and video, you might not want to run it on full brightness unless you want to drain your battery laptop quickly.

By harnessing the power of those nearly obsolete, chunky cylinders of power, you’ll get an additional 2 hours of battery life. The unit measures about 8″ x 6″ x 2″ and weighs about 2.3 lbs, meaning it’s thicker and weighs almost the same as the Air. 2.3lbs. isn’t that bad, but when you add eight C batteries…wait a sec while I calculate that… ah right: about 13 tons (plus 2.3lbs.) I kid, but you get the idea. I guess it’s good for field work and emergencies. But then you’d have to have it with you at all times. Just in case. So it’ll be like you bought a light notebook to compensate for its colossal emergency power source.

Bird Electron is selling the MacBook Air external battery on its online shop for ¥19,800 (~$247 USD), although I’m not sure if they ship outside Japan. By the way, the MagSafe Airline adapter needed to connect the unit to the MacBook Air is sold separately, so that’s another $49. That’s the price of having a sexy and sturdy unibody I guess – gone is the option of carrying an extra battery. Want a bulky charger for your iPad 2 as well? Bird Electron’s got one too, although it’s disappointingly less absurd since it uses four AA batteries.

[via Akihabara News via Dvice]

I had one LaCie hard drive overheat and fail on me. Since then, I’ve always opted for external hard drives with fans. A lot of people leave their hard drives on all day, so it’s no wonder that there are so many heat-induced failures.

Thermaltake hopes to cure this problem with their new Max 5G dual fan hard drive enclosure. Your hard drive will remain nice and cool with these fans. The Max 5G has a pair of blue LED-backlit 80mm fans which are supposed to be “ultra-quiet”, and can handle 3.5” SATA I, II, and 6G Hard Drives up to 2TB. And since it’s USB 3.0 compatible, it can handle drives with a data transfer rate up to 5Gbps. It’s available for pre-order now over at Amazon for $52 (USD).

[via FarEastGizmos]

Seriously: A terabyte’s worth of data in your (cargo pants’) pocket.  According to Western Digital’s estimates, that’s equivalent to 200,000 pictures, or 250,000 mp3 files, or 380 hours of DVD quality video, or 120 hours of HD quality video. And Western Digital is sure that the 1TB drive is worth $300 (USD). Unfortunately, even though the press release says that the 1TB drive is already available online, I can’t seem to find a store that’s selling it. Fortunately for those who reckon they don’t need the extra 250GB, the 750GB drive is available at Western Digital’s online store for a much cheaper $200.

[via gadgetell]

The sound card supports 16Bit 16KHz / 32KHz / 48KHz playback & recording with a THD+N at -73dB, and SNR at 85dB. Now I’m no engineer, but after conducting extensive research I can definitely say without certainty that the lower the THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) and the higher the SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) ratings, the better the sound quality will be. Bet you didn’t know that. I just dropped some knowledge bombs on you, courtesy of Brando. Of course I still don’t know just how good this sound card is without knowing the standard ratings. So. Maybe you can drop me some bombs of your own.

You can get the USB tube delight audio for only $32 (USD) at Brando. I’m content with seeing a well-thought out gadget from those crazy folks and their sources.

[via GeekAlerts]

BB Gadgets’ Rob Beschizza is lucky enough to have a last name that Snoop Dogg would just love to drop in a song. Beschizza was also lucky enough to be handed a Replica for testing, and judging from his experience, I’d say Seagate nailed it: “After a few hours of use, I forgot it was there, which is the entire point.”

Even the ad is Apple-ish. Although the Replica doesn’t copy the Time Capsule’s wireless capabilities, it does have Time Machine’s incremental backup and restore function, which is the main point of a backup device anyway. The 250 GB “single-PC” version will sell for $130 USD, while the 500 Gb “multi-PC” version will sell for $200 USD. Good thing Seagate didn’t copy Apple’s pricing scheme.

[via Gizmodo]

Created by industrial designer Franco Cagnina for Intech, the TEMPO connects via Bluetooth to your Mac or PC and automatically stores backup copies of files as you delete them. As you fill the drive, a series colored LEDs on the side of the device indicates how full the “bin” is.

This is one of those great examples of utility and intuitive interface design coming together. I really hope that Intech does end up producing these.

[via MoCo LoCo]