Iomega has already started its transition to USB 3.0 hard drives, and now it’s announced plans to keep all its USB 3.0 hard drives at USB 2.0 prices. Great news for our wallets. The eGo line of portable hard drives will be available this October in 500GB and 1TB capacities.

Each will include Iomega’s Drop Guard Xtreme to protect against drops up to seven feet. These will be followed by Iomega’s Prestige line of portable hard drives, which will go USB 3.0 in the first quarter of 2011.

PocketBook has announced five new models that will be released at IFA in September. They include a pair of entry-level ProBook 602 and 902 models, and the ProBook 603 and 903 premium models. The 60x designated models feature 6-inch screens, while the 90x models have a bigger 9.7-inch screen.

All models have 2GB of internal storage, a Linux-based OS, and WiFi and Bluetooth. The higher-end versions also have 3G connectivity and a Wacom touchscreen. The “entertainment model” PocketBook IQ will be available in three case color options, with a 7-inch TFT color touchscreen, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Android 2.0.

If you happen to be at a Best Buy today, you’ll find just one tablet for sale: Apple’s iPad. But when this holiday season comes around, that will all change. According to Shawn Score, president of Best Buy Mobile, the company will be focusing on tablets during this years holidays.

He says that “Like e-readers over the last couple years, we think customers will think of Best Buy for tablets and expect us to have the right ones.” He didn’t confirm any models or brands, but we pretty much know which tablets to look out for.

Word on the tablet street is that RIM will be using an operating system developed by QNX Software Systems for its upcoming tablet, the BlackPad. This is interesting news because it means that RIM won’t be using its own BlackBerry 6 OS.

Last month RIM acquired the Internet rights to blackpad.com, according to the Whois database. We can’t wait to see how it all plays out with this OS. It’s an interesting move by the company.

SSDs are popular, but traditional hard drives still have a place in our devices. Toshiba has been demonstrating a prototype of a new storage technique called bit-pattern recording. This technique offers a storage density of 2.5Tb per square inch, or to put it another way, about five times more than the company’s current offerings.

They achieve this by placing individual bits onto lithographed “islands” of magnetic material that will protect the charge of the individual bit while allowing the sector to be smaller. We won’t be seeing this until about 2013 however.

Dell’s Inspiron Mini 1018 netbook has finally made its way across the pond to our friends in Europe. Looks like the touchpad has separate left and right buttons, while the processor gets a slight bump to an Intel Atom N455 1.66GHz chip with support for DDR3 memory.

Those changes come with a regular 10.1-inch display at 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GB RAM, a 160GB hard drive and Windows 7 Starter Edition. You can pick it up for around 279 Euros and above, depending on the configuration.

Epson has launched the Stylus Photo PX820FWD wireless all-in-one printer, which features a 19.8cm smart-navigation touchpanel with an integrated touchscreen allowing you to print photos quickly. You can also print directly from memory cards and PictBridge-enabled cameras, which makes it very convenient.

It also features integrated wireless and Ethernet connectivity for printing, scanning and faxing of all your important stuff. The Epson Stylus Photo PX820FWD is available in September. You’ll be happy to know that it can print a 10x15cm photo in just …

My daughter and most of her friends in the neighborhood all wear as many of those rubber band looking bracelets on their arms as they can fit without turning their hands blue. The bracelets look like all sorts of things when you take them off like animals and food among others.

A new package of those bracelets has surfaced for kids who like gadgets. The 24-pack of rubber band bracelets is shaped like all sorts of gadgets. They are in the shape of mobile phones, tablets, MP3 players, portable speakers, cameras, and notebooks.

If any of you out there though that the iPad would fail, you were so wrong. The iPad is selling faster than Apple can build them and the demand is showing no signs of letting up.

Apple is building all the iPads it can and if it were not for screen shortages, it would build more. The sales success is a good thing for Apple, but not a good thing for other companies like Asus. Asus has announced that its Eee sales forecasts are being reduced to 1.4 million units for Q3.

This summer we have seen some of the first 3D sporting events land on satellite and cable channels all around the country. The catch was that most of the events were things that are boring to a lot of us like golf. Verizon has announced a new 3D sporting event that will appeal to many viewers.

Verizon has landed the rights to air the first 3D NFL football game to its FiOS subscribers. The game will air on September 2 in some markets. The game will be a pre-season match between the Giants and Patriots.

Gateway just launched the LT22 netbook, which is pretty similar to the LT32, but this one is packing a 10.1-inch display instead of the 11.6-inch display on the LT32.

There’s no price or launch date for the LT22 in the US yet, though in Canada it will cost you CAD350 (or $337).

If you can afford it, the new 12-core Apple Mac Pro stock has arrived on Apple’s online store. Obviously this isn’t your typical Mac and it is priced accordingly.

These 12-core machines start at $4,999, though if you like it won’t be too hard to get the final price to over $20,000, by upping the specs. Off the shelf specs include:

Western Digital has unveiled a new product that hits two digital media birds with one stone. The device is called the WD Elements Play, can store lots of media, and lets you view that media on your TV.

The device is a smallish square box measuring 1.6″ H x 8.9″ L x 5.9″ W. Inside the black box hides a HDD of 1TB or 2TB capacity allowing for the storage of lots of digital files and video in various formats.

The future of Augen’s $150 tablet and $100 smartbook isn’t looking as bright as we had hoped. They have slow processors and resistive touchscreens and now their official Google app privileges have just been revoked.

Augen has confirmed that the entire proprietary suite (including Market, Gmail and more) was preloaded on the devices without Google’s permission, and won’t appear on new batches that make it to store shelves. Augen says it’s working with Google to secure rights to these apps for new products down the road. Hopefully it gets sorted out quickly.

There are all sorts of reasons you might need to record the goings on outside your home. Maybe you have an annoying neighbor that lets their dog crap on your yard or maybe neighborhood kids keep ringing your doorbell at 2am.

What you need in instances like this is a camera like the Swan Security OutbackCam. The camera is a self-contained security device that can record video to an integrated DVR. The camera has a 2MP resolution and can record color or B&W still shots and video.