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Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive Matches with Your MacBook Air

8:00PM September 17, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

Iomega, maker of many a sexy storage device, has a new eGo out specifically tailored to the MacBook Air set. The 2.5-inch eGo Helium Portable Hard Drive encloses 320GB in anodized aluminium. In case that’s not enough space, the drive can utilise an online backup service for “cloud computing.” The entire package is less than an inch thick, weighs 7 ounces (about 200 grams) and can be dropped from up to 4 feet 3 inches (1.3 metres) onto industrial carpeting without worry. Not that any of you will experiment with that, I hope.

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New iPod Shuffle: Same Chip-Clip, Now With Nano’s Hand-Me-Down Colours

4:12AM September 10, 2008 | John Mahoney

At this point, the housing can’t get much smaller without coming with a serious child-safety choking warning etched into the back–but obviously not wanting to leave any iPod untouched today, Apple spread some more saturated ROYGBIV love to the shuffles (the nano’s old digs, actually), ditching the lighter pastels. They remain US$50/US$70 for 1GB/2GB.

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