Over at TechDigest comes this nice laptop pillow, to not only stop your laptop digging into your legs but help keeping it cooler and not burning your legs. TechDigest raves about the log one (pictured below) which I like a lot for its colour and playfulness. However it’s not the only one - check out the whole range - the variety is what I like, something for those who prefer the functional as well as design lovers.

Laptop pillows are nothing new - PCWorld blogs about a nice design for those laden with accessories - you can pop your mouse or external drives & cables into the pocket beneath. Of course you don’t have to splash the cash - you can go with a DIY approach instead - the comments section on this Lifehacker post is a great selection of homebrew laptop rest solutions. So whatever you want, if you’re suffering from a hot or heavy laptop on your knees, there’s no reason to put up with it at all.

I’m a bit of a sucker for touchscreen technology - the possibilities are enormous and can take us away from the decades-old paradigm of keyboards and numeric pads. Of course, we’re still at the start of this transition but it’s exciting to see what pioneers are doing. Over at Tech E Blog they’ve got a video of BumpTop, which is a bit like Microsoft’s much-talked about Surface:

I like the ability to put lots of things in one pile but the really nice stuff is the 3D desktop - you’re inside a giant room, effectively and you can spin the room round and play with the “walls” as well as the “floor”. It’s all in software (so no need for new hardware), which is a bonus. The best thing is that you don’t need a touchscreen to get started with it - you can use a mouse or two mice to explore if you don’t. But it’s obviously a lot cooler with the touchscreen, so it’s a good transitional step between the two.

More about this can be found over at OhGizmo!