If you've ever wished you could tweak that handheld gadget of yours just a bit, or even a lot, to make it better meet your needs, Bug Labs has a gadget you might want to check out. Well, it's less of a "gadget" and more a gestalt of gadget-like objects. OK, you may be wondering just what the heck that even means, but when you see how the Bug platform works, you'll understand.

See, the idea is that you have a base gadget--similar to a mini-motherboard. Like a mobo, you plug other components into it and then use software that makes those components do what you want. The Bug Base allows other modules to attach onto it. You then add your own (or other folks') Java apps to make those modules do what you need them to do. The Bug has been compared to Lego for gadgets and really does give a new meaning to the phrase "plug and play."

If you're like most computer-based gearheads, it's more than a little likely that you have an extra hard drive or two just laying around taking up space and collecting dust. You might even be contemplating building a low-end homemade rig just to serve as a new home for those still functioning but probably smaller-capacitied (not really a word) drives. Or, perhaps you recently upgraded from a tower PC to a laptop and have yet to transfer all that data off of your old machine. Which ever is your issue, computer accessory company, Brando, has the perfect device to add to your computer setup: it's a dock for your old SATA hard disk drives.

Think of the dock you stick your iPod in to charge its battery or transfer media. Essentially, the Brando HDD dock is exactly like that, only bigger, for obvious reasons. It can take your full-size 3.5 inch internal hard drive or even your laptop-size 2.5 inch drive and connect it to any computer with a USB port on it. Pick up one of these and you've just put all of your old SATA drives back to work.