As much as we love wrapping a hand around the sexy curves of our ergonomic Logitech mouse, the rather bulky input device isn’t always practical for the geek-on-the-go, which is why companies like Samsung have developed waifish little mice such as the model pictured above. On display at this year’s Korean Electronics Show, Sammy’s travel mouse measures in at only 8-millimeters thick, yet manages to pack in five buttons, a scroll wheel, and the increasingly-obligatory LED light show. Not only that, the little rodent is even able to swallow its own tail, so to speak, thanks to a winding mechanism that draws the USB cord almost completely inside its minuscule body. If for some reason this model is too thick for your tastes, a company called iCantek has taken a cue from the MoGo MouseBT and built its own PC card-sized device (pictured after the break), although this one unfolds a little differently and lacks its competitor’s wireless capabilities. And if you’re really looking to go small — small enough that it’s uncomfortable to maneuver — check out the LG FINGER mouse we featured earlier this year, which was recently taken off the market after it was discovered that LG was making them with real fingers.

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Nokia gets the lion’s share of the attention when it comes to the S60 platform and Symbian generally — perhaps rightfully so, considering they ship far more Symbian-based smartphones than any other vendor — but Samsung would like to politely remind everyone that they’re an S60 licensee, too. Their latest effort, the SGH-i520 slider, had its coming-out party this week at the Symbian Smartphone Show, and the spec sheet looks to give Nokia’s E- and N-series multimedia powerhouses an honest-to-goodness run for their money. The typical 2-megapixel camera and QVGA display aside, the i520 packs an HSDPA radio — something no released Nokia handset has managed to do; granted, the N95 does it, but we’ve got a little wait ahead of us for that monster. Lucky owners also get a microSD slot should they find the 45MB of usable storage a bit light, Bluetooth 2.0 with A2DP, and a front-facing VGA shooter for those ever-popular video calls. Per protocol, it doesn’t seem that a US launch is in the works, but one can never be sure; stranger things have happened.

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Samsung’s taken advantage of this week’s Korea Electronics Show (otherwise known as KES) to show off its NX-10 ultra slim PC, which should fit nicely into just about any living room — just not ours, since the chances of this reaching our shores anytime soon are about as slim as its form factor. (Yes, we know you want to say it a little too much like a Wii — no comment.) Measuring a scant 2.2-inches across the front, the Windows XP MCE-based box comes equipped either an AMD Sempron or Turion64 X2 processor in its white incarnation, along with a 200 to 400GB hard drive, nVidia C51MV integrated graphics, a “super multi” combo optical drive, and a 6-in1 memory card reader. Judging from AVING’s pics, it looks like the black version gives you some Core 2 Duo action in place of the AMD processors (we knew those stickers were good for something), though you can probably expect the rest of the specs to remain roughly in line.

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One of our readers just sent in this clip of Panasonic’s AA battery-powered plane attempting to set a flight distance record in Japan. Just a quick refresher, it sports a single-seat and a 31-meter (102 feet) wingspan — powered by 160 AA “Oxyride” batteries from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

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