Funny how it costs almost as much as a game… at US$23 right here, it’s an easy pop to building relationship with your PSPs… too bad your girlfriend might choose to stay away for a while, we’d understand her.

Aside from being multi-shape… it’s also multi-function. It doesn’t need to be wrapped around you all the time! You can use the accessory vacum hook stand for table-top viewing.

Now, let’s take a look at the specifications:

- Suitable for the PSP2000/3000 series console
- Easy to install
- Easily to change viewing angle – 360 degree turnable
- 2 different stands included – Traditional vacum hook stand and Multi-Shape Cobra Stand
- Traditional vacum hook stand – easily to attach any neat surface – Length: 26cm
- Multi-Shape Cobra Stand – easily to bend to any shape – Length: 92cm

Yes, despite the fact that other manufacturers have been doing this kind of thing for years, Microsoft has decided that it should launch a notebook cooling base. And yes, that’s what it’s called.

No passivity here, mind, as the unit features a built-in fan and efficient cooling channel. It can be used on desks and laps and is angled for a more optimal typing angle, yet is only 1.16 inches think. As with most other similar stands, it’s USB powered, and it will come in white or black.

Added to which, Microsoft is revamping its Arc mouse by launching a special edition range. Special in that it offers a variety of new colours: frost white, eggplant purple, deep olive green and marine blue, in fact.

The mouse can be be folded down by almost half so it’s easier to use while on the move and when it’s flipped shut it turns off its power.

More colours are also coming to the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3000: Blue sapphire, red garnet, pink topaz, green emerald and purple amethyst. I can tell you’re excited.

The notebook stand will arrive in July for around $29.95. The Arc Mouse SE is available this month for around $49.95, as is the Wireless Mobile Mouse 3000 ($29.95).

His Universal magnetic stand photo stream shows how he took some old monitor stands plus the strong magnets from a defunct hard drive to create a compact music workstation for his Eee PC and various bits of audio mixing gear.

This set-up wouldn’t work for everything, as you’d not want to be sticking magnets next to anything sensitive like tape drives or a working hard drive. That’s not a problem for the Eee PC as it uses a solid-state disk.

There’s something cool about building this kind of stuff from scratch. Sasha used leftovers from monitors that were installed in an info kiosk. You make something good from what you’ve got lying around. Even the glued on plates come from an old CD-ROM drive case and the rubber from a blood pressure meter.

Unique, too. You’ll never build another identical one even from much the same parts.

fibra’s universal magnetic stand flickr set (via CDM) Pics used with permission.