With the advent of Windows Media Center, the HTPC, and the current push of them to be an necessary and integral part of any new home theater setup, new ways of controlling them are beginning to appear. One of the most neglected areas seems to be the mouse and controlling your cursor on your HTPC is often a pain. The joystick like controls on keyboards are hard to control and imprecise at best, and if you are sitting across the room a wired mouse isn’t feasible. Wireless mice require a surface to use them on and I don’t know about you but I usually don’t have a table beside me while laying on the couch and watching a movie. Even so, they have often been the choice for the HTPC crowd. That is … until now. Introducing the Logitech MX Air, cordless freedom at its finest and now excluding the desk too.
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If you are one of those people that has to have the exotic everything and it be better than everyone else (i.e. the guy that bought the Ferrari because there were too many McLarens in your town), then maybe you need a flash drive more exotic than everyone’s as well. ZaNa Design seems to think you do and has a full line of handmade flash drives that are sure to make people turn their heads. The drives themselves are encased in exotic Merbau wood with some real silver to add some flair. They also use natural stones such as amber and striped flint for the flickering LED’s and some extra “Ooooh’s” and “Aaaaah’s”.
The cool thing is that they aren’t just for the exec’s sitting in the high leather back chairs either, but appeal to the geek in you too. These drives support BIOS booting as USB Zip and USB HDD and feature Ultra-Stable and U-SAFE technologies. This prevents against data loss or corruption if the drive is unplugged while transferring files. Unfortunately the drives only appear to come in 1GB and 2GB models and are going to set you back $74 and $92 respectively.
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