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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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