It’s been more than eight months since the ASUS Eee Pad Slider was born at CES and since then, we’ve seen listings online and heard endless promises that it’s coming ” soon .” Today, though, at a media event here in New York City, we managed a prolonged hands-on with the thing — along with assurance that it’ll hit the US before month’s end. According to an ASUS rep, it’ll ship with Android 3.2 and start at $475 for the 16GB model ( roughly as leaked ) with the beefier 32GB number fetching an extra hundred bucks. That means we’ll be putting it through its paces soon enough, but in the meantime, head past the break for some early impressions

Never mind that the Aerobed PakMat is obviously useful whenever you need to camp somewhere apart from sleeping in the comfort of your own home, but did you know that this inflatable mattress offers all the benefits of one no matter where you decide to catch some forty winks (even as an extra mattress in your home), but minus the pain? After all, it comes with a compact cylindrical carry case which will also function as a pump, helping you carry less wherever you travel with it.

You may remember our brief run-in with 50 Cent back at CES, where he announced a partnership with Sleek Audio for Sleek by 50, a pair of “wireless hybrid” headphones with built-in Kleer technology. Today the company revealed that it has terminated its agreement with G-Unit Brands, 50′s licensing company, and that it will be “re-evaluating our Wireless Hybrid over-the-ear headphones at a later date.” There’s no word on why the collboration went awry, and the company only indicates that it has decided to focus on its in-ear offerings instead.

Toshiba’s mobile monitor is cheap, portable and works via USB If you own some kind of tablet, you can make it do double-duty as a wireless, external add-on screen for your computer, if you don’t mind laggy, pixelated graphics and are happy with just ten inches of extra space. It’s handy for maxing out a laptop in emergencies, but hardly ideal. Toshiba’s USB Mobile LCD monitor, though, looks a whole lot better

Some of you might remember when I reported on the Swiftpoint Mouse back at CES 2011 . For those who don’t remember, the Swiftpoint mouse is a tiny mouse that is designed to be the size of your thumb. The purpose of the tiny mouse is to use that space you don’t use on your laptop as a mousepad. As many of you know, I have to have a mouse, but I have been in situations where I don’t have enough space (or a busted mouse) and had to resort to the trackpad.