As technology marches on, even our alarm clocks are becoming feature laden. It seems like every other alarm clock that comes out today has an iPod dock for charging the iPod and playing music from it. The good part is that you can often wake to your own music.

Waking to iPod music is much better than waking up to an annoying buzzer or a fuzzy radio station. The pair of new alarm clocks from Memorex both feature iPod docks and can wake you to tunes from the iPod, AM/FM radio and the dreaded buzzer. The basic Mi4019 clock has a snooze function and comes in pink, black, and white colors.

For a portable hard drive to be truly portable, it needs to be able to be powered totally by the USB port on your computer. That means that users don’t need an AC adapter for the drive to operate. When portable hard drives first started to hit the market most of them needed an AC adapter and some larger capacity portable drives still do.

Today Memorex launched a new line of portable hard drives available in 160GB, 250GB, and 320GB that are all powered by the USB port of a user’s computer. The line is called the Essential TravelDrive series and uses 2.5-inch drives inside a case designed to fit inside a purse or laptop bag.