Generally, a new optical disk drive is nothing to write home about, but how about one that’s specifically purposed for tablets and Ultrabooks ? That’s the pitch Samsung is selling for its SE-218BB DVD / CD writer, which the company also notes as being the world’s thinnest external ODD — because what better to go with your svelte computing devices than more pluggable doohickeys. Cynicism aside, Samsung says this $60 add-on is just 14mm tall, “18 percent thinner than conventional DVD writers” and eight percent less weighty than its standard DVD ODD.
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Samsung intros ‘world’s thinnest’ external DVD writer, tries to convince you to pack it with your tablet
Bummed that you won’t be making it out to E3 this year? Well, at least you’ll be able to console yourself with your very own tiny iPad arcade. According to Ion, the iCade Core , the latest in the company’s line of nostalgia-inducing Bluetooth tablet controllers, will be shipping to UK customers in mid-June for ￡49.99 ($81) a pop. 
Norton’s Identity Safe is a free online service that aims to end the curse of forgotten passwords . If you’ve got a few social networking accounts, then keeping track of all your keys can be tough. This service remembers all of your log-in details and inputs them automatically when you next visit. 
Is your notebook still your preferred second TV? Well, it seems you’re now in the minority. The hip new way of consuming the drug of the nation — after the ‘ole tube itself — is on a tablet, according to a recent Viacom study. 
Software updates can only get you so far, and in the case of ASUS’ Transformer Prime , they didn’t even get it down the street. The Taiwanese tablet has been fighting satellite blindness since its inception — it was only a matter of time before the Tegra 3 slab caved in and got a prescription. 
Ah, Acer’s Olympics-themed Iconia Tab A510. 
While the PS3′s media abilities in the US are limited to what it can access via discs or over the network, in Europe / Australia ( PlayTV ) and Japan ( Torne ) TV tuners stretch things further. Now, Sony Japan has followed those up with the Nasne headless media box shown above. A combination networked recorder and media storage device with a 500GB SATA HDD and tuners for both antenna and satellite TV built-in, it pulls in broadcasts and either records it or streams to up to two other Sony products (Vita, PS3 with Torne app, Vaio PC, Sony Tablet or Xperia phone) on the same home network at once
Remember those GPS issues that hobbled ASUS’ quad-core tablet? Now, after the company announced a free module to fix this, Land of Droid has managed to snap the first pictures of the Transformer Prime GPS Extension kit, adding that it looks likely to get an official reveal sometime today. 
The ASUS Transformer Pad 300 is getting closer to bringing its watered-down Prime flavor to store shelves, as PC World reports a spokesperson confirmed it will begin shipping April 22nd. What they could not confirm was the price, although there are preorders out there for $399 already. In case you’ve forgotten, the 300 brings the same Tegra 3 processor as the Prime, but matches it with a standard IPS display, optional LTE and only 16GB of built-in storage, as well as 10 hours of battery life. 
The amazing three day iPad giveaway campaign continues, and we’re only halfway through. Day two is already here, and it’s time to enter to win another new iPad. 
