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i-mate unveils Centurion, credit-card-sized smartphone, Legionnaire and Warrior laptop shell at MWC 2009

i-Mate has announced the Centurion, a credit-card-sized smartphone at the MWC 2009. The phone is obviously named after the American Express’ Black Card, Centurion. The company has also unveiled the Warrior laptop shell, which allows a contained smartphone to remotely access a PC or Mac.

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Freestyle solar-powered watch runs 12 months on a single charge in sunshine

We wanna save as much energy as possible. Even a watch that does not consume too much energy shall go “green” as well. A solar-powered watch is great as it’s eco-friendly and saves a little of your pocket for replacing the batteries.

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Snip Doctor – a handheld device to predict patients’ negative response to medication

Some patients have negative response to medication. In the past, there was no easy way to test out if a patient has any adverse reactions to prescribed medication. NHS has reportedly spent £460 million to treat 250,000 patients who are admitted to hospital due to adverse reactions to prescribed drugs.

Thanks to Imperial College London, they’ve successfully developed a handheld device that makes use of the analysis of genetical information, DNA, to predict if a patient would have any adverse reactions to any drugs to be prescribed.

The handheld device is called Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Doctor or SNP Dr in short and can be pronounced “snip doctor”. The device is able to identify the presence of specific DNA sequences in a patient’s genome, which might be the cause of any adverse reactions to certain medications.

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Applause Machine deceives you with a big clap even though you’re just a crap

The Applause Machine is your best friend, your best audience, it’ll always listen to what you say, or what you do and give you a big clap even though you’re just a crap!

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LG X120 Netbook with built-in 3G connectivity

Besides cellphones, LG also showed off their new model of Netbook at MWC 2009. The latest in their line is the LG-X120 Netbook. Since LG is good at making mobile phones, of course they’ll incorporate the mobile Internet connection into their new netbook. The LG-X120 Netbook comes with a built-in 3G, which allows you to hook up to high-speed HSPA connection, while WiFi hotspot is not avaialble. This LG netbook has a slot for you to insert a 3G SIM card, so you can then start surfing the Internet via 3G connection.

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Red Hot Chili USB drive spices up your data

USB flash drives come in unusual shapes these days. The latest we’ve got here is one that is shaped like a red hot chili. This Red Hot Chili USB drive has a 4GB storage capacity for your data.

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For Anime and Manga fans: APPLIYA bring EVANGELION to the iPhone

If you’re a big fan of the Japanese anime and manga characters and stories, you should have also fallen in love with one of the popular anime movies – Rebuild of Evangelion. If you’re an iPhone or iPod Touch user, you’re now extremely lucky, as the Tokyo-based Appliya Inc is bringing the Evangelion app to the iPhone and iPod Touch users.

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Spongebob Squarepants 64GB USB flash drive

There was a conceptual USB flash drive two years ago, that came in the shape of the Spongebob Squarepants, but when it got full, it would turn into a blowfish. Unfortunately, two years later, such a transformable Spongebob USB flash drive still remains as a concept.

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Photonic integrated circuit (PIC) increases Internet speed by 60 times, terabit per second closer

Photonic integrated circuit or PIC is being worked on by some scientists that is claimed capable of increasing the Internet speed by a hefty 60 times i.e. terabit per second of Internet speed is one step closer.

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LG also unveils solar-powered cell phone

Solar-powered cellphone is the newest race among the phone makers. For not to be left behind by the Samsung’s Blue Earth, LG Electronics has also unveiled its own solar-powered cell phone.

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