Monitor Calibration Tool for Color Accuracy

Pantone has introduced “huey,” an easy-to-use monitor calibration tool designed for digital photo enthusiasts, gamers and any computer user wanting absolute color and clarity. Developed in partnership with GretagMacbeth, huey delivers excellent results on LCD, laptop and CRT displays without requiring users to have any knowledge of color management. In addition, huey is the first monitor calibration device to continually adjust the monitor as room lighting changes.

In less than five minutes, huey can calibrate a user’s monitor and adjust it based on the primary viewing activity — viewing photos, playing games, creating graphics or browsing the web. With an affordable $89 price tag, huey delivers accurate onscreen color, a crucial component for anyone who cares about color fidelity.

160GB Mobile Notebook Hard Drive

Alienware becomes the first manufacturer to offer a 160GB mobile hard drive on notebook systems. Alienware is featuring the new Seagate Momentus 5400.3 160GB mobile hard drive on Area-51 m7700, Area-51 m5500 and Sentia m3200 mobile systems. In addition, the Area-51 m7700 is available to be configured with dual Momentus 5400.3 160GB hard drives for a total capacity of 320GB, allowing users to enjoy the largest hard drive capacity ever available on a mobile system.

Momentus 5400.3 is the world’s first notebook disc drive family from Seagate built on perpendicular recording technology, delivering the highest areal density — 132 Gbits per square inch — to provide the highest levels of drive capacity, reliability and performance. With industry leading operational shock tolerance of 350 Gs, the 5400 RPM drive gives Alienware notebooks a more stable operating environment. And with a 160GB hard drive, Alienware mobile users have the convenience of taking all their content with them wherever they go.

iPod Compatible Jeans From Levi’s

The Levi’s brand is launching its line of wearable technology with the introduction of Levi’s RedWire DLX Jeans, available worldwide in fall 2006. Designed for both men and women, the jeans seamlessly integrate iPod plug and play technology giving music enthusiasts the most innovative and fashionable way to enjoy music on the go.

Design features include:

• Easy Pocket Storage — An iPod docking cradle is built into a side pocket of the jeans. The cradle is equipped with sophisticated technology housed in a red conductive ribbon that allows users to quickly and easily remove their iPod from the pocket to view its screen while staying connected. The jean is machine washable once the iPod is removed.

• Hip Controls — A special joystick remote control is externally designed into the jean’s watch pocket to enable operation of the iPod. Four-way controls allow the wearer to easily play/pause, track forward, track back and adjust the volume control without ever removing the iPod from the pocket.

• Handy Wire Retractor — A handy retractable headphone unit has been built directly into the jean to help prevent tangles and efficiently manage the iPod earphone wires.

A Mouse That’s Not a Rat Trap

For years, it’s been one of the biggest frustrations that road warriors deal with while carrying around their laptop computers ... their mice. An emerging company, Newton Peripherals, has a real solution in the form of a business card, Bluetooth-enabled mouse, the MoGo Mouse BT, that when it’s not being used, stores neatly inside a laptop computer’s PC slot.

MoGo Mouse BT is ergonomically friendly and intuitive to use, right down to the two indentations on its top that clearly enable left- and right-clicking. A “kickstand” locks into place, automatically levering the full-width MoGo Mouse BT into a natural position in the user’s hand, making its operation that much easier. With no batteries to replace, the MoGo Mouse BT recharges in less than an hour in the PC card slot of the laptop.

Based on the most advanced Bluetooth technology available for wireless mouse applications, the MoGo Mouse BT delivers unsurpassed power performance and highly robust wireless performance. The BCM2040 single-chip Bluetooth solution from Broadcom integrates radio, baseband, firmware and several key application-specific electronic components onto a single-chip, contributing added reliability to the MoGo Mouse BT design.

MoGo Mouse BT sells for $69.95. A “MoGoMercial” has been posted demonstrating the mouse’s capabilities at www.mogomouse.com.