You may never have heard about Astone but according to this review it has all the goodies, except a manual or price…
OK. Just give us the specs then and your first impressions.

Fireproof, waterproof and almost bulletproof.
We’re talking about the ioSafe SoloPRO USB 3.0 External Hard Drive, just announced today.
Already DigitalReviews.net has a review on this critter.
Check it out here and the ECA rating it got.

If you think the iPad is an exciting new device set to revolutionise how we work with computers, you’re right.

Except for one thing: it ain’t necessarily NEW…

Here’s a very interesting article about how Star Trek artists came up with theiPad grand daddy…

By Alice Hill
RealTechNews

We have been pointing to YouTube videos for some time – the website has Saturday Night Live snippets and all sorts of absurd video that actually makes us laugh and look at moving images (a first for me over other sites anyway). But a site upgrade that slowed the system down coupled with the recent decision to delete questionable material without firm guidelines has made faithful users blow their stacks.

“Yesterday, blogger and longtime YouTuber Miel Vanopstal lost his cool in a post titled “Screw YouTube.” Vanopstal complains that YouTube’s recent upgrades have made the site significantly slower, and that new efforts to enforce copyright and delete otherwise questionable material strike him as arbitrary. He is particularly galled that a single alert notice from a “puritanically minded” fellow user can result in a video being deleted. “I’ve had it with these random rejections,” he writes.

“Vanopstal is hardly alone. A bitter Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle says that he was kicked off YouTube two months ago. Weinberg chronicles his dissatisfaction with the free (and reportedly money-losing) service, ultimately deciding that he has only one thing left to do: “Ruin YouTube” by systematically reporting all of the site’s traffic-generating but copyright-violating videos. Microsoft’s Don Dodge, who formerly worked at Napster (Research), adds a been there, done that post to the fray, noting sagely: “User-generated content is very difficult to manage and control.”‘ Source: Business 2.0

We Say: We agree. User managed and driven content is difficult to control. Try TinyPic for a look at another service, and hopefully YouTube will get its technology and policies in order and not blow this one. They had me at You. However, they also had a lot of problems with user-posted illegal material and no real way to make money, so this also could be good-bye. Or good-by.

Before you go…try these:
–First-Ever Case of an Entire Company Being Pirated < --Scary
–RANT: Why Wal-Mart’s Build Your Own PC Plan is Doomed
–Regency TR-1: The World’s First iPod
–Hundreds of FREE Tech Magazines < --Nice!
–Iron Mountain Loses Valuable Back Up Tapes

…..Give me more RealTechNews

As we all know helicopter pilot training is easy for organists and circus acrobats who are used to coordinating hands and feet in ways we didn’t think possible. In other words: most folks will have trouble during the initial few hours of helicopter pilot training and while practicing emergency maneuvers.
But how to train safely in a simulated but realistic environment?
Enter the not so mad Max Planck Institute guys from the Biological Cybernetics department who partnered with Heli Aviation GmbH to create a safe and effective training platform. The used a heavy industrial six-axis Kuka with a carrying capacity of 500kg to which they attached the cockpit of a Cabri G2 helicopter.
So how does it work? Check it out here.

Its High-Speed features are the prime attraction here: up to a 1000 fps is possible (with a pretty severe resolution penalty). And if you can accuse Casio of one thing it is that they cater for folks who want to have real fun with their cameras! Not a bad thing either…
So what were my findings in the short time I played with this super Slo-Mo unit? Check the

Long awaited but this looks like the follow-up product of the hugely succesful HD2 phone!
The HTC HD3 will almost certainly be the most feature-packed smartphone ever built, equipped with a massive 4.5″ AMOLED touchscreen, a 1.5GHz Snapdragon processor, an 8-megapixel camera with a dual LED flash, and an HDMI output with support for 1080p HD video playback, 720p HD video recording.
HTC’s HD3 is claimed to be just 10mm thick, will also be one of the first smartphones to run Windows Phone 7 Series, which was first unveiled in February 2010.

Are we just dreaming or is this the real deal?

Check it out here!

Don’t you just love the iPad concept? If only it wasn’t an Apple product you might sigh…
Fear not, dear Pad lovers, Pioneer just launched 3 models of the ePad:the Pioneer DreamBook ePad 7/10 (7″), DreamBook ePad A10 (10″) and DreamBook ePad L11 HD (11.6″).
For all the Specs have a gander at this post!