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If you’re a geek, then you know there’s nothing better than being able to customize your gadgets to suit your own personality. There isn’t much you can really customize when it comes to USB drives, but you can make make it easier to identify yours easily if it ever gets lost (and found). A customized flash drive could make a good gifting idea too.

Pexagon allows you to customize your USB key online in 4 easy steps. And you can choose from capacities between 512MB (who wants that these days?) to 8GB. Looks cool and will cost you no more than $52 for the largest capacity.

Via Chip Chick.

You’ve seen a lot of iPod cases on these pages, but this upcoming one for the 5G iPod and ipod classic has a twist. Well, if we’re being technical and it made sense to say so, the plastic case really has a rotate . . . -ing set of speakers, that is.

Attached to the back of the case are two 770mW speakers set into a rotating unit that flanks the iPod screen when exposed and can be “hidden” when not in use. The speakers run off their own 3.7V lithium polymer battery, so you don’t have to worry about suffering the consequences of blaring Britney Spears at work when you hop onto the subway with a pair of headphones. I mean, there are consequences to listening to Britney, of course, but none of them are related to your iPod’s battery power.

The rotating speaker case will sell for about $60 when it becomes available at the end of the month.

Via Thoughts from the Sidelines.

Microsoft Vista’s non-success will not stop the software giant to come out with Windows 7, the next Windows operating system that still remains (for the most part) to be a mystery. However, a test version has already been forwarded to the technical committed (TC) of US law enforcement perhaps to have the upcoming OS’ compliance checked, according to a court document filing.

The court document filing claims that the next operating system from Bill Gates’ Microsoft has full description but currently only the regulators have access to it, as well as, the test version. Regulators and Microsoft itself claimed in the filing:

“Microsoft recently supplied the TC with a build of Windows 7, and is discussing TC testing going forward. The TC will conduct middleware-related tests on future builds of Windows 7.”

No results and changes were made public but we’re sure that a long line of discussion and close encounter between the two groups can be expected.

Read [TechRadar]

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