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Exhibited during the CES 2012, Intel’s Nikiski is a laptop built with a transparent touchpad that can serve as a touchscreen as well. When the laptop is closed, the visible gap then converts into a touchscreen, not only displaying a custom Windows 8-esque “Metro” interface, but allowing the users to view power settings, the date/ time or check out their emails without opening up the laptop’s lid. Intel gives no information about the device’s launching time but announced that the Nikiski will be retailed for less than $600 (USD).

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OLPC XO-3 is a tablet computer designed by San Francisco studio Fuseproject for the “One Laptop Per Child” project, which aims to distribute cheap, full-functional and self-powered tablets to kids in the developing countries. The OLPC XO-3 comes with a green rubber border and a removable cover that houses a solar cell to charge internal batteries. So whenever you need to charge your OLPC XO-3 tablet, simply split off the cover, put it under the sunshine for a while, and then done.

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Yes, I know my computer keyboard is full of harmful micro-organisms here and there, but who else’s are not the same? Since a “polluted” keyboard is unavoidable, we would have to face the fact or get Vioguard’s Self-Sanitizing Keyboard instead. Using germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C), the keyboard kit can kill more than 99.9 percent of harmful micro-organisms (flu germs and antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria included) within seconds…

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Coming from Genius, the Ring Presenter is a sleek version of the company’s Ring Mouse that adds PowerPoint functionality, making it extremely ideal for corporate meetings. Built with a touch-sensitive cursor pad surrounded by four buttons, the Ring Presenter gives the users a better control of both their remote PCs and the slide shows. When not in presentation mode, the device can serve as a miniature mouse too, with touch sensitive scrolling and right, middle, and left buttons.

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A USB flash drive for iPad? You must be kidding, as we all know that the iPad doesn’t have any USB port. But the truth is that this USB Flash Drive can connect to iPad wirelessly, streaming music, movies, photographs and documents to your iPad or Android and Windows smartphones. It can support up to 32 GB SD cards, which provides much more space for file loading. Providing over five hours of stand-alone operation, the gadget could get reenergized via USB from any computers without the need for software.

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Obliviously Eric Calisto is narrowing the gap between imagination and reality, with his attempt to build a triangle tablet that once appeared in NBC’s “The Office“. It’s really an interesting concept and attracted many people after that episode, but possibly only Calisto is devoted to that project seriously. However, before the triangle tablet finally comes into truth, Calisto needs approximately $25,000 to start his work and currently he is launching his project on Kickstarter, so you can go and fund him if you like his idea.

Within quite a few days we’ll step in a new year, so at the same time we should get some new keyboards. Designed by Russia-based Art lebedev, the Optimus Populyaris & Optimus Mini Six are compact keyboards and control panels that configure with many options, which can be adjusted according to the user’s needs. If you haven’t gotten used to the standard keyboards on market, you now have a chance to customize your own special ones.

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With more and more electrical products coming into our life, our small spaces seem to have been filled with various kinds of USB cables, but obviously we don’t need so many of them, coz what we need is only the Innergie Magic USB cables. It offers up to three different connectors to meet your various needs, and quite specially all the connectors are attached to each other so that you can keep an easy track of them.

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Honestly there are no USB storage devices making me feel safe enough as my data seems completely open to those who get a good control of computers no matter which kinds of lock I use. But Crypteks’ USB storage is announced to be an exception. It is double locked, with both durable solid-aluminum housing offering mechanical security and a built-in 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption. Its aluminum housing features five twisting rings displaying 26 letters of alphabets, thus to improve the safety level. If that’s not enough, the 256-bit AES Hardware Encryption will provide you with another lock that is claimed to have seldom been broken before.

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Nowadays industrial designs seem to have gone into a strange circle, which means while someone is trying to make things thinner and slender, others are busying redesign those removed parts into a full-functional accessory. Have a look at all those kinds of gadgets made for your thin smart mobiles and you’ll know what I mean. But anyway, to design something is always better than to destroy something, so when seeing this “LandingZone” I still thought it is a good product. It can sit on your desk, hooking up to power, a monitor, an Ethernet cable and four USB devices, thus providing you with a more convenient way to control both your laptop and other gadgets.

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Your Little Printer, unveiled by the Berg, is a smart portable printer that helps you to print out simple content. It can get connected to your cellphones, gathering the information sent out from your mobile and printing the pictures, puzzles, coupons and other stuff out. Well, I’ve already seen the happy days of printing out coupons and using them anytime and anywhere, but pity that the tiny printer won’t be available until sometime in 2012.

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The Lenovo Company has recently launched its Windows 7-based IdeaCentre Q180, which is announced to the world’s smallest desk-top computer.

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Something important is soon coming online, while without a detailed time, so I just keep waiting and waiting until my emails finally come. Oh God, I hate my days to waste time in waiting and how much I wish I could get the USB Mail Box Alert earlier. Simply connect the gadget to my Facebook, Twitter and email accounts and then I’ll get a nice reminding whenever new emails or new feeds come in.

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ASUS is well-prepared to launch the world’s first-ever NVIDIA tegra 3 quad-core tablet, the “Prime”, that can transform into a laptop with easy operation. Featuring a 10.1-inch display, an 8.3mm-thick body while merely 586g of weight, the soon-coming tablet also comes with a hydro-oleophobic coating that makes it more fingerprint-resistant.

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You know I have three little pigs and a young sow that has recently farrowed, and I’d like to share with you my joy… So look at my pig buddies, wow, they’re so cute USB flash drivers and USB hubs as well.

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How to ensure the safety of your data stored within a hard disk drive? Our suggestion is to use the EZSAVE Lockdown USB 3.0 2.5″ HDD Enclosure. Once connected to your computers, the HDD enclosure will ask you to key in a four to eight digit pin with its OLED touchscreen, and the digit pin is expected to keep your data safe without the worry that somebody may decode it. The device features AES 256bit drive encryption, which is also used by the central government of the United States, so it is really reliable to store your data within it.

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Welcome the Penclic Mouse to America and Canada. As a pen-shaped mouse that ensures the users a comfortable working experience, this Swedish-designed mouse will finally come to the North America where it would be available at Best Buy, Walmart and other major retailers. Till now its price is not yet confirmed, but it is quite sure that the device will be sold in both wired and wireless versions, just as in Europe.

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Cush is a laptop sleeve that doubles as an ergonomic work station. When folded, its neoprene interior can provide your computer with a safe protect in transportation. But once unfolded, the item would then serve as a laptop stand, with its side panels doubling as a mouse pad.

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These interesting clothes are especially designed for your laptops, giving them a personalized look and thus to amaze the people around you. More surprisingly, these Laptop Body Skins would seem to be part of you when viewed rightly from the front. So which is your favorite, Bikini, T shirt, X ray, or the formal dress?

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Even though the Apple Inc. has issued no keyboards for iPad or iPad 2, there’re actually many companies designing and launching wireless keyboards for iPad users. The Levitatr Keyboard is just one among them. It is merely 12mm high, with a smooth black surface when not in use. But once you switch it on, its keys then raise out and the backlighting turns on. Currently it’s a Kickstarter project, so we can only check out the video now to see how it works.

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Cideko’s Air Keyboard would bring us a new experience with wireless keyboards. It is embedded with a 3D motion sensing mouse, which will detect the keyboard’s motion to control the cursor on computer screen. Thus the users merely need to move the keyboard up and down/left and right in the air, they can then use the device as a wireless mouse too. It is also integrated with an earphone and a microphone, allowing the users to enjoy music or chat online from a long distance. The wireless keyboard is rechargeable, and compatible with both PCs, Macs and Linux computers. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These two Big Big Cursors are touchscreen-friendly stylus especially designed for your tablets. Seemingly bit of different from your typical stylus, they’re not that comfortable to use but will add some new fun to your time with tablets. Moreover, they’re even magnetic so you can store it on the metal covers of your iPad2 for an easy transportation. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Seemingly common things may sometimes perform really magic, and Mobee’s Magic Numpad is just a good example of that. It is a thin file that comes with an accompanying software, with the help of which the Magic Numpad will transform your Apple Magic Trackpad into a numeric keypad. When the film is place onto the trackpad, any functions such as page up, page down or directional keys will then be available to use. There’re three key configuration overlays for you to choose, including one that combines the numeric keyboard and trackpad. The Magic Numpad will be ready for the market on October, but now you can pre-order one from Mobee. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Epson’s new photo printer comes with a retro appearance design which seems to have drawn its inspiration from old computers once popular in 1970s or 1990s, but actually also features some modern technology as it is built with a wireless keyboard and a remote controller. However, the real element that makes the printer special is that the device prints out photos and postcards without needing to be connected to a computer. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The king of laptop is here. From gScreen, the SpaceBook is the world’s first dual-screen laptop that features two 17″ full HD displays with a gorgeous resolution of 1920 X 1080 pixels. Even so, the new laptop measures merely 4.54kg, lightweight enough to ensure people an easy transportation. It is planned to be launched to the world in November, but now you can make an order via gScreen with a down payment of $695.00 or $795.00. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Logitech’s Fold-Up Keyboard for iPad is a smart portable accessory that looks really cool as well. It attaches to the back of the iPad 2, acting as a protective case and a stand for most of the time while offers a full-sized slide-out Bluetooth keyboard when users push the iPad backward. Once folded up, the keyboard then turns off to conserve battery life. Clever. [Read the rest of this entry...]

To build USB optical mouse with a digital photo frame? What an astonishing idea, because we seldom have the chance to see an optical mouse’s body when we’re using it. But it seems quite good when we leave the mouse unused – the 1.5″ LCD digital photo frame displays photos automatically to give your desk a refreshing look. The USB optical mouse has a built-in 8MB memory, expected to store about 50 photos. [Read the rest of this entry...]

This Mini Desktop Computer must have tricked your eyes, as it looks like small toys on the picture. But it is “announced” to be real computer available for use in the video below. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Such a good idea should have been introduced to us much earlier… Put forward by Roni Margolin, the new gadget is an iPad protective case that doubles as wirelessly-controlled keyboard. When you take your tablet with the Hilo, you’re actually taking around a desktop! Cool. [Read the rest of this entry...]

USB Pixel Mouse, makes mouse a real part of your computers rather than an accessory to them. It is shaped like a giant Windows pointer, and it performs as well as a normal mouse. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Long before, common mouse for computers was named so mainly because the device has a long wire that looks like mouse’s tails. And now, Elecom Nendo Oppopet’s wireless mouse has “real” animal’s tail, so cute! [Read the rest of this entry...]

A good iPad needs a good accessory to make it a better product than we can imagine, and therefore we must get one HandyShell case for our iPad2. It is a multifunctional handle – a strong hinge that holds your item firmly, a thumb ring that keep your iPad stand steadily and protective case to ensure your iPad away from danger. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Almost thousands of ideas have been put forward to store your data, but we never mind having another idea, especially when it comes as interesting as the USB Film Roll. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Facebook has made great changes to the way we socialize, and now it’s the time that SK – Search Engine Access Keyboard changes the way we use Facebook. Except for keys as that of normal keyboards, the SK-SEAK features 19 one-touch social hot keys for navigating to Facebook’s top pages so that your time with Facebook could be much easier and more convenient. For $29.99, you’ll also get a detachable palm rest for added wrist support. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Michael Roopenian’s Engrain Tactile Keyboard seeks to strengthen the relationship between users and interfaces by giving them a new experience of moving their fingers across waves. These waves are not freely carved but strictly follow the user’s habit of typing and their figures’ movement on keyboards. As a result, you may feel your fingers are part of the keyboard when you use the Engrain.

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Still miss the classic feel of retro typewriters when we’re already in a digital age? Try this Typescreen. It combines a touchscreen interface with a traditional typewriting keyboard so that users can get a new experience of texting or web browsing. Officially licensed by Apple, the Typescreen is compatible with both the iPad and iPad 2. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These LEGO Computer Boxes fit in perfect to any homes and offices, and particularly they suit anyone who would like to have his own computer box- one that is different from others’. They function in the same way as LEGO toys, so that you can rearrange them to create a unique pattern. [Read the rest of this entry...]

The Hacoa Play Mouse is definitely quite perfect for girls, as it not only has an ecological cuteness, but features a lovely smiling face that is made up of the wheel button and two little round left and right buttons. It is available in light maple and darker walnut, each for $189 on Japan Trend Shop. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Quite a long time after laptop computers were created, we finally see a printer that also features a simple book shape. It’s super compact, measuring 50 X 257 X 182 mm so that you can easily take it anywhere. Even better, the Book Printer can be connected to other devices via Bluetooth and therefore allowing you to have files saved in cellphones or iPads printed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

“Weird” and “huge” is mentioned frequently when we talk about the Evoluent VerticalMouse. It seems not that smart on the pictures, however one will find it comfort and convenient to use the mouse after they’ve tried it personally. Moreover, the big mouse can even relieve your wrist pain, according to many users. [Read the rest of this entry...]