Today, aside from discovering that Eee PCs are really not suitable for adult hands (a discovery that has involved much shouting and swearing and almost crying) we heard all about the new Apple MacBooks that are heading our way soon.

The announcement of a new Apple device is always a hard act to follow, but the news today has been a steady trickle of interesting little tech and gadget snippets, only marred by the fact that it has taken us around four earth minutes to type this particular sentence right here on what is, effectively, a broken computer (or 'omputer' as Asus' swear-inducing keyboard would have it…).

So what else is new? Sharp announces 16 new Aquos LCDs running from 26 inches up to 52 inches, each with a dual-layer BD drive for recording HD TV content in Japan, while in 'only in Japan' news Taito wants us all to make sweet music with our phones and Hitachi Maxell has just unveiled a prototype cartridge-based iVDR with a small e-paper screen on its face for checking both how much storage space is left and what's on the drive.

In further e-paper news, KDDI R&D Laboratories in Japan are working on a pre-production 'Portable Viewer' is a 13.1-inch 4,096-colour e-paper display made by Bridgestone that connects to a phone by infrared to display exactly what's on the screen of the smaller device.

In other news:

BenQ unveiled a number of new projectors for both home entertainment and business use.

Steve Jobs had a pop at Blu-ray

Firefox 3.1 beta was released, featuring 3D tabbed browsing

Google launched a new YouTube celeb show

And a grown man was reduced to tears of anger and frustration by the Eee PC 901.