Yes, I know, you’re feeling all constrained by that paltry 300 mbps of bandwidth offered by 802.11n wireless routers. The next wireless standard , called 802.11ac, will offer three times the throughput for multiple HD video streams and more, and it’s coming next year.

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Your next wireless standard will be 802.11ac

Art Lebedev’s Optimus Maximus keyboard is pretty slick, but c’mon, let’s be real: blowing over $2,000 on a keyboard is hard to justify. The little brother of the Maximus, the Popularis , is now up for pre-order, and it’s just as good looking but way more affordable.

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Optimus Popularis keyboard gets better looking, closer to reality

This magical glass keyboard right here looks like something that came out of a design student’s final project. And who knows, it might have. But thanks to Kickstarter , it’s going to be made real, and you can sign up to buy one. Supposedly, it’ll even work , too.

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Fantasy glass keyboard and mouse Kickstarted into reality

Plugging speakers directly into the headphone jack on your laptop generally works just fine, but it could work finer . The digital-to-analog converter on most laptops is adequate at best, but a relatively inexpensive doohickey like this HifiMan sound card could give you quite the boost in quality.

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A $39 box that promises to improve the sound of your music

Apple’s newest computers feature a Thunderbolt port, which allows you to transfer data at blazing fast speeds. That’s great, except for the fact that almost no Thunderbolt peripherals exist. But now the first Thunderbolt HDD is out, and it looks pretty great.

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The first Thunderbolt HDD lets you backup with super speeds

The Levitatr keyboard just looks like a board with a smooth black surface. But once you turn it on, the keys raise out of it and the backlighting turns out, and then you know what you’ve got on your hands.

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Levitatr iPad keyboard stays flat until you need it

Have we met before? If Logitech’s Wireless Touchpad looks familiar, that’s because it is. It’s the Windows/PC version of Apple’s mouse-killing Magic Trackpad — only fatter, cheaper and made with more plastic.

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Logitech fights Apple’s Magic Trackpad with Wireless Touchpad

Chances are, you don’t need anywhere near 4TB of hard drive space. But hey, maybe you do. And if you do, Seagate’s gonna be the first one to offer it to you.

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Seagate announces the first 4TB hard drive

If you can dream it up, you can crowdsource the funds for it. For example, folks ponied up $200,000 to save SETI’s Allen Telescope Array . Now? The fine geeks of the world have put over $50,000 behind a USB drive that serves up storage next to stimulation.

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Crossing a USB drive with a vibrator is worth over $50,000

You might think your 1TB of storage is a ton. And it is! But it’s got nothing on what IBM is cooking up: a 120 petabyte storage setup, the largest ever.

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IBM developing the largest data drive ever