WD dresses in pirate rhinestones while Kingston, Viewsonic play

THREE NEW PRODUCTS caught my eye at one of the pre-show shows that pepper the CES landscape. Kingston, Viewsonic and Western Digital all had some worthwhile pieces to show off.

Kingston was the first one I noticed, and it had an adaptor for SD Micro and Minis to a standard SD slot. This is nothing earth-shattering, but is quite handy, and well worth having in your toolbox. It carries a MSRP of $40. Also, all the products I saw at Computex are now out in a buyable form.

Viewsonic had a nifty little one, a projector with an iPod dock on top, the PJ258D is a 1024*768 pixel projector that puts out 2000 lumens. It has VGA, video and SVideo ins, is based on DLP technology, and will be available in mid-January. It looked pretty decent considering the video source, an iPod.

WD had something special at the show, a Mybook 2 tarted up for the pirate themed party we were at (really). You can see from the front of the gold one that it went overboard (arrrrr) on the bling-bling (avast), the rhinestones (synthetic faux diamels) are not something WD will ever sell you, and the fashion police thank them for that.

Other than that, they are two drive external arrays with USB and Firewire connectors. You can RAID them in 0/1, and best of all, they have user serviceable drives. If one dies, you call up WD and it ships you a new HD in a carrier. Two screws later, you are back up. µ