Now, we have no idea why anyone would drop a perfectly working laptop off a 20-foot balcony (or drop a bowling ball on an iPad), but if you ever wanted to see a really convincing product demo, then you’re going to want to see this. G-Form just put out a YouTube demo video that pimps out their Exreme Sleeve for laptops. The victim: A 13-inch MacBook Pro. The crime: they dropped the running laptop from a 20-foot balcony. Did it survive? Of course. Or else, it would have made for a really crappy demo video. But will it blend? We’re pretty sure it will, but just for the hell of it, we’d love to watch that, because a tech demo deathmatch sounds like fun. G-Form’s demo video and press release after the break.
Fact number one: the audio quality on built-in laptop speakers usually suck. Fact number two: despite being called “laptops,” you usually can’t keep a laptop on your lap for more than a few minutes because of the heat being spewed out from the underside. Solution? There are actually a lot of laptop platforms and cooling pads you can get to get around these issues, but Logitech’s first Speaker Lapdesk N700 was apparently successful enough that they thought to put out another one—this time for smaller notebooks and netbooks—called the N550.
Apple finishes off its update day with a couple of new accessories: the 27-inch LED Cinema Display and a new input peripheral called the Magic Trackpad. Despite the mystical name, it’s simply an oversized touchpad that connects via Bluetooth. It acts and feels the same as a MacBook’s pad, but it’s 80% larger, giving your Mac desktop multitouch support. As an accessory for a MacBook, well, you get a larger area to do all your swiping with.
If you’re looking at these new wooden skins from KARVT, it’s just funny to think that you might have been one of those people who bought a MacBook because you were impressed by the minimalist all-aluminum design. But now that almost everyone in the coffeeshop has a cold aluminum-ized laptop, it doesn’t look so awesome anymore. Here’s something that’ll let your MacBook stand out from the crowd… or blend with the furniture.
Computer peripheral maker Zemno has introduced the DeskBook Pro Docking Station, a portable notebook platform that features ModBay technology—the company’s proprietary tech that allows users to plug in modules that can either add more storage.
