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Single-wheeled superbike – Hornet

Hornet is a one-wheeled superbike developed by Liam Ferguson which seems unsteady at first sight. But if you take a closer look, you’ll notice that it has two smaller side-by-side wheels at the rear end, which actually serve as the stabilizer that keeps it balanced gyroscopically whenever it is parked.

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Handgun USB flash drive

The little handgun shown here is actually a USB flash drive that stores your data. While it’s not plugged into our computer, you’d probably use it to deceive or frighten some kids around.

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AT&T USB phone charger draws zero vampire power

Most of us will leave the charger connected to the mobile phones even though they’ve got fully charged. Especially you’re the one who always leaves your cellphone to charge through the night. So, when the phones get fully charged, the charger will still continue drawing power, which is actually a big waste of electricity.

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World’s fastest book scanner

Here comes the world’s fastest scanner, which is currently just a prototype that has been developed by Professor Masatoshi Ishikawa and his team at University of Tokyo. The super fast scanner is able to scan a 200-page book in just a minute.

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USB TV tuner with worldwide compatiblity – Diamond ATI TV Wonder 750

The Diamond ATI TV Wonder 750 is a USB TV tuner that hooks up to the USB port of your computer, allows you to tune into digital and analog TV signals including but not limited to ATSC, DVB-T and Clear-QAM (unencrypted digital TV). This little USB TV tuner is the alternative choice of watching TV on your laptop while you’re on the go, if you’ve got bored with Internet TV sources like YouTube, Netflix and Hulu etc.

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Compact gadget works as a camera, records video, voice and reads your SD cards

Here comes a simple and palm-sized gadget that offers the abilities to shoot images, record videos and sounds as well as to be used as a USB SD memory card reader.

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i-Got-Control turns iPhone, iPod and iPad into an IR universal remote

The i-Got-Control comes in the form of a plug and play accessory for the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad, which will turn these Apple gadgets into an universal remote control for controlling any IR-based electronic devices in your home.

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Readot converts 2D images into 3D tactiles

The Readot concept allows the conversion of 2D images into 3D tactile constructs which are useful for the visually impaired to touch and feel for what the images are. This Readot concept had won the 2009 Red Dot Award for the designers Lim Hyoseon, Kim Seungmo and Kim Suhyun.

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Digital Storm Black OPS now integrated with Intel Core i7-980X processor

Digital Storm Black OPS gaming desktop computer also has an upgrade, which now lets you have an option to have the Intel Core i7-980X processor extreme edition configured for the Black OPS PC. The Intel Core i7-980X processor is the world’s fastest desktop processor, which allows gamers to run up to 12 parallel computing threads at once.

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First Data microSD-based contactless payment system

First Data has created a contactless payment system based on the use of Tyfone’s SideTap microSD card to allow mobile phones to authorize payment transactions.

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