It’s official - laptops can’t get any smaller. If they did, reading and typing on them would be an impossible task. I thought the Dell Inspiron Mini 9 was small, but the IMOVIO iKIT takes the cake. The cupcake, that is.

This thing is unnecessarily too small. It’s dimensions are 95 x 65 x 15.5 mm and it weighs almost half the weight of a Nintendo DS Lite and 20g less than an iPhone, so it’s pretty damn tiny. It also manages to pack a full QWERTY keyboard and a 2.8″ QVGA screen on this thing. For $170, you’re not getting much of a computer. It runs on a Marvell PXA270 312MHz CPU, uses a trimmed-down Linux OS and has 64MB of RAM, so don’t expect a powerhouse in the palm of your hand. For some reason this little thing even has Bluetooth 2.0, 802.11b/g WiFi and can amazingly sustain enough juice to keep it going for three hours. Seriously, do laptops need to be this small?

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This computer sure is tiny. Fit-PC Slim is the ultimate mini-rig for anyone who isn’t satisfied with USB drives as a means of transporting data. It’s dimensions are 110 x 100 x 30mm and it packs a mean 500MHz AMD Geode LX800 processor, Ethernet jack, VGA output, WiFi, and a 2.5-inch hard drive option for taking data on the go.

Two sizes of memory are available: 256MB or 512MB. Obviously, depending on how much memory and/or hard drive space you want to put into this thing, the price could range from $220 to $335 and you’ll also need some tiny speakers to match. Be careful not to leave it around the house, though. I’d hate to hear that you crushed your three hundred dollar computer just because you weren’t watching where you step.

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To be honest, I haven’t seen a computer smaller than the Space Cube. The computer, about the size of an Apple, is lacking beefy specs but comes equipped with plenty of ports and options to save grace. Inside, you’ll find a 300MHz processor, 64MB of DDR RAM and a 1GB CompactFlash Card. Yes. A fucking gig of storage and enough RAM to open Notepad. Fantastic.

Don’t pass it by just yet, though. The Cube comes with a plethora of ports and outputs. You’ll find SP Outs, Mic Ins, Ethernet ports, VGA support, USB port, speaker plug and more. Apparently, there’s also a “Space Wire” port, which is some proprietary NASA/ESA bullshit. It doesn’t matter, anyway. At nearly $2800, you’d have to be out of your mind to buy one of these.

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Sometimes size doesn’t matter. But we all know that only men lacking in the trouser snake department say that. For example, don’t buy a Ferrari because you have a tiny penis. Sure, you’ll get a date out of it but, once you drop your pants, that girl will be singing to the whole town about what you aren’t packing.

Why not show her something worth talking about that isn’t connected to your body, like the Little Lamp. What makes it so little? The fact that its power source is also its stand, which happens to be a D-cell battery. It packs quite the punch for such a tiny lamp and one battery provides 150 hours of light from an LED bulb that’ll outlive the next 40 batteries you use on it. At $35, it won’t confuse your lady friends at the dinner table like the lamp candle and it’ll also give them a hint of what’s to come.

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In the future everything is microscopic. We’ve got robots that can get inside your intestines to distribute medicine with their tiny robot hands, but what about solar race cars no bigger than a quarter? Now we’ve got those too. This 33 x 22mm car runs on light, artificial or otherwise. Just chase after it with a flashlight and watch it go. You can grab your own for about $23. Try not to lose sight of it.

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Texas Instruments has announced it’s making the tiniest projector ever created commercially available. Dubbed the Optoma Pico, the projector will be available next year with an insanely small DLP chip inside. While it’d be great to see the projector built into your cellphone, Optoma Pico will disappointingly remain a stand-alone mini projector. The product should be making its way to the United States in 2009 with a launch price under $300.

Affordable urban theater? Where do I sign? With this mini projector, you can sit in the passenger seat of your friend’s car riding down the Schuylkill Expressway watching that Four Hours of Filthy Fuckin’ DVD you have stored on your iPod for all who pass by.

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Sony’s new HT-IS100 home theater system has the smallest speakers of any home theater system I’ve seen to date. With 450-watts of power, these miniature speakers pack a punch that rivals many standard sized speakers. An optional wireless kit allows the two rear speakers to be hooked up without the need to run wires, keeping your setup free of cluttered wires.

The entire system goes for around $700 and includes three HDMI ports on the head unit, making it an ideal system for any Blu-ray player. Building that impressive home stereo system couldn’t come at a better price or smaller size.
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We thought the Xun Chi 138 was the smallest cellphone we were ever going to see. Despite their lack of operation, these weeny sized Mini Japanese cellphones are ridiculously smaller than anything else on the market. Of course, these phones are totally incapable of making any calls or sending any texts, but you could probably fool some 6-year-old that what you have is the smallest “working” cell hone ever.

You can pick up one of these dwarfs for $3. A cheap price for the ultimate in ludicrous size. (more…)

With phones and other consumer electronics getting smaller and smaller as the days progress, the hardware inside must also keep up to date. Oki Electric Industry Co. recognized this trend and so set out to make a smaller stereo speaker amplifier; they succeeded with ML2611. This single chip contains stereo-playback capable DAC (Digital Audio Converter), 3D surround functionality, and a speaker amp. The ML2611 will greatly improve sound quality in devices we care so much about, like our precious phones that we can’t go 10 minutes without. At 3mm x 3.2mm, this miniscule chip will be of great help to developers trying to make consumer electronics even smaller than they are. The only problem for them is that the Oki Electric Industry Co. won’t be mass-producing the ML2611 until June of 2007. Oh well, guess that means we just have to stick with the Razr for another 6 months. — Nick Rice

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