It’s not often you hear “vertical” and “keyboard” in the same sentence so I jumped on this article when I heard Kensington re-styled their C170 keyboard to include a vertical mounted USB port.

So now that I’ve settled the vertical+keyboard question, the next is why?  Look at the picture, then make the jump.

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Kensington eases the pain of laptop life with their all new re-designed notebook USB docking station. The SD200V is a tower update to it’s predecessor, the SD100, a wedge shaped design.

The SD200V allows dual view of monitors with it’s beefed up “DualView” boost feature. Max support is 1280×1024 pixels. The notebook dock station connects to your laptop via a single USB port. From there, you can sync up a VGA monitor, keyboard and mouse along with connection for stereo-out and microphone-in port.

The Kensington dock station includes front USB port for easy connection (although we’d like to see more) and ability to hot swap USB devices and other peripherals without the need to reboot your notebook.

Price set at $139 and pre-orders are being taken at Kensington.

ViewSonic is offering their wide screen 19″ LCD monitor for 158 after$40 mail-in rebate. Free ground shipping. Offer good through 1/31/07. If you haven’t made the upgrade to a flat screen monitor then grab the GetUSB Dealz and make the jump.

The Optiquest Q19wb-2 19″ widescreen LCD integrates high brightness and contrast ratios with super-fast video response. Enhance your productivity with this widescreen display that lets you work in two applications or documents side-by-side. Enjoy the crystal-clear, blur-free video and graphics delivered by broadcast-quality, 5ms video response. Built-in speakers deliver rich, stereo sound. (more…)

Store you’re VoIP phone in the PCMCIA slot, recharge your VoIP phone from the PCMCIA slot - the Vo200 Bluetooth Internet Phone is right on target. If you’re into VoIP phones this is one sexy looking unit.

The sleek design is designed for simplicity with auto detecting Bluetooth signal upon power up, what is now standard echo cancellation technology and compatible with virtually any VoIP service (Skype, MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk) 3 hours of continuous talk time, 30 hours standby time and a blinking light when only 10% of the charge is remaining. Nice built-in stand too. For one wireless, cable free (more…)

Protect your identity in a wireless environment with this free (after rebate) Kensington Personal Firewall USB key. The dongle will not interfere with corporate firewalls or anti-virus software. $30 price tag less $20 mail-in rebate and $10 discount after Google Checkout = FREE. (more…)

It seems VoIP speakerphones and USB phones are more common then flash drives these days. Kensington is shipping their new Vo300 Internet Speakerphone today. With just a simple USB connection the Vo300 extends the number touchpad of your computer to that of the VoIP phone for easy dialing. (more…)

Press Release from Newnham Research

GetUSB Summary: Newnham uses a proprietary lossless graphics transport format that converts the pixel signal to be transferred via USB then renders the signal pack into pixels to be viewed. The driving force for the product is to make adding monitors to PCs and laptops quick and easy, like any other USB device.

Innovative USB NIVO Connects Monitors to PCs using USB 2.0 with Real-Time, Highly Interactive User Experience; Company Announces Kensington Design Win (more…)