The Myka ION is powered by an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor,equipped with 2GB RAM and 160GB HDD. The nettop also offers an optional Blu-ray drive, supports wireless connectivity and equipped with VGA, DVI and HDMI ports to suit different types of displays.

The OS of this nettop is Ubuntu Linux, comes complete with the Boxee and XBMC media center software and supports standard-def Adobe Flash and Hulu’s online streaming service. The nettop starts at a highly affordable price of $380. If you want a budget home theater system, this should be a great one to go for.

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The eStarling photo frame comes with lots features for social networking, such as the support of photos from Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, a built-in Twitter client and it can also receive video clips shot over by your cellphone and other Internet-connected devices.

The device also has a GMail account which lets others send photos to that GMail account, which those photos will then fetched and displayed on the photo frame. The device also has weather updates, but it does not offer more interactive apps such as browser, calendar apps etc. But the company promises will further improve it through the firmware updates. One of these will cost you $250.

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The Litl Webbook has a more flexible hinge, which can be bended backwards to stand like a TV-like device with an optional remote control and a TV-style knob. The device has a 12-inch LCD display, capable of providing up to 178-degree viewing angle with better color resolution, which is comfortable enough for those around you to watch and share videos on it. The GPU of the Litl is capable of decoding H.264 video at 720p resolution

The Litl webbook is stuffed with an Intel Atom 1.6GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 2GB of flash storage, and the mentioned GPU. It also includes a number of connectivity including WiFi, headphone port, USB 2.0, HDMI for bigger display. The Litl has no hard drive, interesting enough that it makes use of the “cloud computing” concept which pulls,shares and stores data on the Internet.

Software loaded including the Flickr and Shutterfly online gallery compatibility, easy link sharing for browser, streaming internet TV and a Facebook widget. It’s available now for a price of $699 and the optional remote costs you another $19.

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The SCH-W920 DMB phone has address book that allows you to store up to 3,000 contacts. And it supports search of contact using consonants, voice and direct hot key. Other goodies include video calling capability, media player, Bluetooth and an interesting language learning function which includes full-fledged English dictionary that will get you back to school preparing for the TOEIC and TOEFL tests.

And of course, the Samsung SCH-W920 allows you to tune into satellite DMB signals which you watch lots of interesting satellite movies on it. The phone has an antenna that makes the satellite DMB reception better. The SCH-W920 will be available in black and white for 500,000 korean won or $425.

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Using hand gestures to control the TV set eliminates the need of remote control. This of course provides more handiness to the users which waving of hands only allows you to operate the TV. No more fighting for remote control among couple and family members. And also no more misplace of TV remote control.

The two mentioned companies that work with Hitachi, have their own roles in bringing the gesture-controlled TV sets to reality. GestureTek is basically focused on software that is able to recognize hand gestures and defines which gestures control which TV functions.

Canesta is responsible for the hardware that captures 3D image of the hand of the audience, so the system can differentiate between your hand and a picture of your hand.

The Hitachi gesture-controlled TV would allow each user to have their own setting of hand commands stored in it. It’s always wise for a user to set some simple enough gestures for switching channels or jumping to your favorite channels. So you can always be ahead of your partner for doing so. Watch the demo in the video below.

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Here comes the FaceID, a face recognition dock access system, that allows you to unlock your door using your face. The FaceID is able to store up to 500 faces in its database. It has a pair of cameras that capture the 3D image of your face and then uses face detection algorithm to match those faces in the database.

The 3D image recognition system also makes it hard for anyone simply uses a photo to deceive the system. It also works in dim or low-lighting conditions, which shouldn’t be a problem for those who always get home late. The system is available and can be purchased from ChinaVasion, but the price tag of $447 may put many of you off. It’s also suitable for offices, can be replacement for card systems as it also takes care of time attendance.

Please note the FaceID does not come with an electronic door lock, so you have to pair it up with one. It should be a reliable system to safeguard your home and claims to have a margin of error of 0.0001%. The very little percentage of error could probably be caused by your twin brother who has face closely resembles yours.

Buy online, $447, ChinaVasion

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Besides, OLED lamp also consumes comparatively low power, making it possible to be powered by little electricity generated by the rocking motion. The chair has advanced nano-dynamo technology built in to the skids that generates electricity for the lamp. OLED technology also allows the lamp to be easily bendable to suit different angles of your reading.

And of course, the OLED reading lamp can be turned off during the day time and the generated power will be stored into the internal battery, which can then power the lamp even you’re not rocking.

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Air Board can stay four feet above the ground when it’s up and travel at a speed at about 15 miles per hour. The consumption of Air Board on gasoline is huge as well. It has a tank that carries 1.3 gallon of gasoline but it can burn through in just an hour. Be prepared for extra bucks for gasoline, if you wanna continue to have fun with Air Board.

Anyway, to hover on the Air Board, you’ll need to find a space that is big enough with no or very few obstacles. Places such as skateboard park, football field should be suitable for you to drive Air Board around.

Buy online, Opulentitems, $14,000

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The little device has one end is a USB connector to be connected to your computer’s USB port and the other end takes an SD memory card that has your digital photos or videos on it.

There isn’t a need for any software installation on your computer. The device will automatically pop up a software which allows you to create slideshows, add fun themes and music background to your digital photos or videos, and then share them on Facebook or YouTube. It can even output the slideshows in iPod format.

If you’ve just converted a couple of boxes of the old negatives into digital photos, you can then make use of the FOTOBOX to create slideshows for them and share them online with your family and friends.

Buy online, $80, Honestech

The solar-powered skull simply collects sun energy to juice up the internal battery during day time, which then allows it to light up the two horrible eyes to glare at your guests at night.

Buy online, $20.70, Uxsight

Samsung has announced two entertainment-rich LCD monitors, 19-inch 933HD+ and 23-inch 2333HD, which come equipped with TV tuners to let you tune into TV signals like a regular TV.

The 19-inch 933HD+ supports 720p (1360×768), whereas the 23-inch 2333HD supports 1080p (1920×1080) resolution. The inclusion of the digital TV tuner allows the user to tune into TV signals, and some more it also offers an optional cable or satellite TV connection. The two LCD monitors also have two HDMI inputs, which you can hook them up to Blu-ray player./p>

Both monitors feature a dynamic contrast ratio of 10000:1, 5ms response time, 16:9 aspect ratio. The 23-inch 2333HD has integrated speakers backed by Dolby Digital. The 19-inch 933HD+ costs $250, while the 23-inch 2333HD costs $330.

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Single Interface for all – The older version of AudialsOne was split into a number of tools including RadioTracker, TuneBite, and VideoRaptor which tracks audio, removes DRM and searches and downloads videos and MP3s from online video sites like YouTube respectively. The new AudialsOne 4 makes it much simpler by combining all these functions into a single interface.

A very brief look at the new interface presented by the AudialsOne 4 – it’s now divided into six tabs on top. The first tab is the Radio, where you can have AudialsOne 4 to select from over 30,000 Internet radio stations by genre, country of origin and radio station, and start recording cool music. And those audio files can be converted into the formats of your choice to suit the devices (e.g iPod Touch and iPhone) that you intend to play the downloaded/stripped music files on.

The second tab is where the search function is, which allows you to search musics and videos by titles and your favorite artists. And the AudialsOne 4 allows you to add in plugins that add more search capabilities over music sharing and social network sites. You can get to the AudialsOne forum to get a number of available plugins contributed by the forum users. I particularly like the search function that provides superb easiness to find any musics and videos over the Internet.

The third tab leads you to where you can create your own wish list and even load others’ wishlists from the community. The forth tab is where you can record music and video from any website or website that is on your browser screen. The fifth tab is leads you to where you can tune to listen and watch Podcasts and the last is a powerful converter that allows you to convert music and video files to various formats (MP4, H.264 and you name it) that suit a variety of gadgets including iPod Touch, iPhone, Sony PSP, Samsung, Nokia, SE etc.

Music cut perfectly – The very obvious improvement is AudialsOne 4 provides much better and near perfect music cut, compared to the old AudialsOne which usually had glitches at the end of the audio file.

HD video recording capability – One great feature of AudialsOne 4 is to record HD movies and videos and save them in your desired formats. This allows you to keep copies of films rented from online movie stores. This is similar to the old days where your dad and mum simply taped those video tapes in the analogue way and now AudialOne 4 just does it in digital and much simpler way.

The AudialsOne 4 can be downloaded from AudialsOne.com. The freeware version needs no registration or activation, but those functions available in the full version are only available in the free version for limited time. To have the full version, you need the license key which costs you $60, At AudialsOne store.

AudialsOne 4 as Giveaway at TechChee.com Fortunately, we’ve got three license keys for the full version as giveaway here. All you need to do is subscribe to our RSS feed and leave a comment below. Please make sure you leave a valid email in the subscription form below. And three of you will be chosen at random from the comments. This giveaway will be closed once all the three license keys have been given out. For those who did not win a license key, you can use the coupon code AudialsOne4 to get a 20% discount when buying AudialsOne 4 online.

Besides communications, ROPID is also able to walk, run and jump more rapidly than any other similarly constructed robots. The actual size of the ROPID is apparently shown in the picture below.

It’s certainly a robot for those lonely city dwellers, which they can have someone to talk to after a hard day of work. It could be like your new born but with better communication and mobility to keep the rest of your day with more fun. Video below shows the mobility of the ROPID robot.

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Despite the super slim body, the Samsung Needle Slim HDTV still packs full HD, 120Hz LCD panel and a 5000:1 contrast ratio. The super slim HDTV is best to be hung on the wall of your TV room. Currently, it has not been released yet but Samsung is hoping to do it asap.

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The printer of the DPP-F700 digital frame is able to print 6×4 inch, 300-dpi photos in about 45 seconds. The digital frame itself has a 7-inch LCD display that has a resolution of 800×480. It’s not a touch display but it is equipped with a number of buttons at the right side which let you edit or make basic corrections of the photos before printing them.

The Sony DPP-F700 allows you to load your photos onto it via memory cards (SD, CF, Memory Stick…), USB or from a PC. Digital photo frames are normally nothing more interesting than displaying your photos. Adding a printer makes it a little bit more useful. Perhaps some small businesses can have the DPP-F700 to show off their beautiful photos at their outlets, and let the customers pay and print at their choice.

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Checking gas leaking is no easy way, simply using your nose sniffing around is not an effective way. By the use of a handy gadget such as this LED gas detector, you can easily find out where there is a leak.

The LED gas detector is easy to use, when it’s detected a sum of flammable level of gas, it’ll light up in red and alarm you with sound. The light will stay green when no flammable gas detected. It requires two AA batteries to keep it running for gas leak detection.

Buy online, $30, ThingsYouNeverKnew

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This kind of web video gateway is available at highly affordable price. A similar product, such as the Asus O!Play HDP-R1 HD media streamer costs only $100. Most of these little web video gateways do not come with on-board memory to keep their price low. But they do come with various outputs, including AV, HDMI, eSATA, USB 2.0, wired Ethernet or WiFi (may need WiFi dongle) and offer 1080p resolution support.

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But you may face some difficulty to navigate or control the media on a HTPC. Perhaps you could use a wireless keyboard for the control, but it will be pretty awkward to use and some more the keyboard simply takes up space.

The GlideTV Navigator, is mouse specially designed to solve the problem, allows the user to control the HTPC with ease from the couch. The device is actually a combination of a mouse, an AV remote control and a wireless keyboard, but it comes in palm-sized. It can be used as a mouse and with a couple of backlit buttons for various controls.

The GlideTV Navigator also works with various popular media applications including Windows Media Center, Boxee, Apple Front Row, Apple iTunes, SageTV, Firefox, and any web browser.

Buy online, $149, GlideTV

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The Dyson bladeless fan is called Air Multiplier which takes table fan to a new level, able to keep you cool even it has no blades. How does it do that? Actually the Air Multiplier has blades in it, but they are hidden inside the lower canister. Dyson simply borrows the same concept of how a vacuum cleaner is setup to make this bladeless fan. The hidden blades produce air which will then get re-routed through the ring, which sounds like an amplifier for the air.

Since the Air Multiplier fan comes with no blades, it’s definitely one that families with kids should own which it can be much safer to the fingers of your kids. And some more it should produce less noise as no air-chopping.

Dyson is asking for $300 for the 10-inch model of the Air Multiplier, and a 12-inch model costs $329.99. These are all you have to pay to ensure your kids’ fingers intact.

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The FIFA 2010 still has several months to go. It’s time to start eying for a suitable pocket-sized TV, which you can use to watch the World Cup soccer match at your work place while the boss is not around (Note: Doing so would risk your job).

Here comes the Lloytron 7-inch Digital TV, a portable digital TV which lets you watch TV comfortably on your work desk. It comes with a Freeview stand which allows you to have complete hands-free viewing.

The Lloytron 7-inch TV features a high-res TFT Matrix Colour LCD display, equipped with an AV input for the connection to a DVD player. Other goodies including a remote control, cable, on-screen multi-language selection, EPG programme. And the best is the included speaker system comes with earphone jack and earphones, so you watch the soccer match quietly at your cubicle.

Buy online, MenKind, about $208, or £129.99