The Matias iRizer Stand for Laptops is ideal for home, office or travel. The iRizer helps prevent neck and wrist pain by raising the laptop keyboard and screen to a comfortable angle. Leaning back in your chair and stretch your wrists is a far more comfortable position … The iRizer is still small enough to get into your laptop bag. A genius with many advantages for you and your laptop!

The TouchSmart tx2z is not the first multi-touch laptop, but HP is pretty firmly convinced that it is the first multi-touch “consumer” Convertible Tablet. Semantics aside, we are interested to know how impressed you are early adopters with what the company has in hand. Are the skills multitouch as awesome, as you had hoped? If not, what areas could be improved? Would you recommend it to potential buyers looking for their bodies a little more work? We get the feeling that we will see loads of multi-touch laptops Gracing our presence in the next few months years, so make sure you really UNLOAD in this case. It makes progress possible, people.

On the hunt for a new Netbook? Well, if you have a Linux-based, you can forget that with HP’s latest range.

The company against the release of all the Linux machines in the United Kingdom, rather than for Windows. Indeed, the Mini 1000, announced at the rear end of the year 2008, is only to be released, as the Vivienne Tam Edition flowers – nice if you have a spare bag, not good if you are male and want to prevent that the center of Office gossip.There is the way to more subdued Compaq Mini 700, but even this only in the Windows flavor. If you want Linux, you’re looking at 2133 Mini-Note, but as this is almost a year old, you can elsewhere.

The reason for this anti-Linux stance? Well, it seems that the manufacturers believe the consumer caution from one operating system, which is not as popular as Windows, so the statement that the HP Compaq 700 and HP Mini 1000 Vivienne Tam Edition better on the market and the needs the consumer. Someone must say that HP, the best seller of the lot, the Acer Aspire One is a Linux machine.

via ZD Net

The embattled OLPC program, already hard hit by job cuts and salary decreases, makes a last attempt to hold: Open source everything and hope that enough companies to copy the design, to be profitable.

The news was front man of OLPC Nicholas Negroponte himself, during the speech this week the TED conference 2009

Blogger Ethan Zuckerman, reporting of TED, said Negroponte hopes that the new open-source hardware design is referred to as “something that all the copies.”

“Commercial markets will go to no end to stop. This is a kind of tragedy,” said Negroponte. “The future of One Laptop Per Child is to go from large to small letters,” to “build something that all the copies. ”

According to Negroponte, the open architecture will enable companies worldwide to create 5 p.m. to 6 a.m. million units per month in three years. That is a lot of little green mean machine, with the strange alien WiFi antennas.

And while this sounds rather technical, licensing as a real “open source”, it will be interesting to see what companies cook with the help of the OLPC design in the next few years.

via gizmodo about CNET