This lovely little mouse here is called the G50 Vanguard. Taking the term ergonomic to another level, designer Damien Crossan has shaped the G50 just like a full hand–it’s like a computerized catcher’s mitt. Slide all five digits over the large, comfortable mouse and enjoy a much more intuitive man-computer interface.

Instead of slapping the scroll wheel in the middle of the mouse where you have to contort your pointer to access it, the G50 puts it on the right side where you can use your thumb–the one that’s not really doing anything anyway–to scroll. The mouse also includes 11 clickable controls for gaming, rather than your typical left-click, right-click.

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Computer users that love their notebook trackpad so much that they want to ditch the mouse and enjoy trackpad loveliness on their desktops have a new option. Delivering some of its Macbook Pro multi-touchery in a larger template, Apple announced that it will offer an add-on trackpad called the Magic Trackpad.

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Wow, I thought the $500 sale I found for my hunk-o-crap Dell laptop was a deal. India announced today that it is working on a computer that is less than a tenth of that price. And it will probably work better than the paperweight Dell that’s currently collecting dust in my closet.

Displayed today in its prototype form by human resource minister Kapil Sibal, the computer is designed to get university and college students connected for an affordable rate. The country hopes to distribute computers to one million college students during the first phase of the project, then move on to primary and secondary students.  The plan is to eventually drop costs to just $10 or $20 a piece.

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Why settle for one touchscreen when you can have two? That’s the tact that Toshiba has decided to take in creating a tablet-meets-netbook concept called the Libretto W100. This interesting device is positioned as a “next-gen ultra-mobile PC” and features dual 7-inch multitouch displays. In other words, it’s basically a netbook with a display in place of a keyboard. The two screens are designed to give the user extra flexibility and can be used together or separately. The device is positioned at multimedia and Web surfing. While users will undoubtedly miss the physical keyboard, the Libretto features six distinct keyboard options with haptic feedback.

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All of the hype today may be on the iPhone 4–or lack of the iPhone 4–but Apple has a second hardware story: a new Mac Mini. Apple announced the new Mini today. The new Mini gets a few upgrades including enhanced specs, an aluminum unibody, SD card slot and an HDMI output, which promises to make it an even more attractive HTPC option. The base model is powered by a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU with NVIDIA GeForce 320M and offers 2GB of RAM and a 320GB HDD. That model prices in at $699.

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According to word out of D8 yesterday, Dell has finally provided the last two key details on its Streak tablet: pricing and availability. Last week when U.K. availability was penned in, Dell stuck to the ol’ “later this summer” for the U.S. The more specific answer to the question is that it will be available beginning in July, though a hard date still seems to be elusive. The tablet will slide into that lowest-tier-iPad price slot of $500 and will come unlocked. It’ll be available through Dell’s website.

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Acer’s been a busy little tech manufacturer hasn’t it? In addition to introducing the Stream today, CEO Gianfranco Lanci showed off an upcoming tablet at a Beijing press event. While little information was offered on the specs, what we do have is rather intriguing.

A little smaller than the iPad, but bigger than the 5-inch Dell Streak, the device features a 7-inch screen and includes a Qwerty keypad, something that would be a nice thing to have on a tablet. Lanci also reportedly indicated that the unnamed tablet will be offered through mobile networks, indicating that it has 3G capability rather than just Wi-Fi.

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Just a few decades ago, the idea of traveling wherever you go with a computer in tow was a foreign one. Two decades ago, you would have gotten strange looks if you described a magazine-sized computer that’s essentially a big, reactive monitor. Perhaps, designer Hiromi Kiriki is on to something similarly prophetic with the Sony Nextep wrist computer. The name of the concept certainly indicates that he thinks so.

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The Dell Leak Streak has gotten its official availability tag, and it will be launching in early-June in the U.K. The U.S. launch will come no earlier than “later this summer,” according to a blog post over on Dell’s website. That’s pretty much the same line that Michael Dell already gave, albeit a little more specific with “early June.”

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