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We recently reviewed some Urbano leather sleeves for both 13″ and 17″ macbooks which we loved.  Well, the company behind the Urbano brand also has some other brands under its belt including Alienbags.  The bags use the Alienware ‘Alien' logo (under license) and are designed with Alienware's laptop range in mind.  But they are compatible with most laptops on the market and aren't actually available from Alienware themselves.  Expect a review of their messenger bag from us in the next few weeks.

Next we moved on to the Thermaltake stand.  There were numerous products on display like the gigantic Thermaltake Level 10 chassis that was designed in conjunction with BMW.  What most excited us, though, was the Thermaltake eSports Challenger Keyboard, but this may have been more to do with that the girl behind it!  Expect a review of the new Thermaltake eSports Black gaming mouse in the near future.

We also had a look at the Samsung stand which was displaying numerous different monitors, along with a few Galaxy S smartphones loaded with Asphalt 5. But there was only two products that really excited us, the two Eyefinity displays on show.  One was comprised of three landscape screens and the other three portrait screens.  We had a go on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the portrait setup which was quite an experience – although the Samsung mouse they used for the system was absolutely horrible for gaming compared to those we're used to!

Then we looked at the Quiet PC stand where there were a number of custom desktop machines on show with components from the likes of Noctua and Arctic Cooling.  The most popular part of the stand, though, was the Xbox 360 which had been installed into a Lian-Li XB01 case and was running Rock Band.

Aqua tuning had a variety of watercooling parts on display along with a couple of custom-built desktop machines.

Iiyama were displaying a number of their latest monitors, including one with a touch screen.  We were given a brief demonstration and it appeared to work quite well – although in all honesty we would still prefer a regular keyboard and mouse.  They also had a few machines set up with their monitors allowing visitors to see how they perform in-game.

KitGuru says: We saw a lot of exciting tech at i40.  Were you there?  What were your favourite bits?  Let us know in our forums or in the comments below.

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