Here comes the world’s first wireless USB external hard drive that has been launched by Imation. Called the Imation Pro WX, the hard drive can be remotely and wirelessly connected to your computer. The Imation Pro WX features a little antenna, which works as the transmitter that transmits the data wirelessly at 15MB/s to your computer, while the computer has a receiver connected to the USB port.

Besides the wireless USB connectivity, the storage capacity of this external hard drive is also worth mentioning. It offers a 1.5TB of storage which is sufficient for storing up to 300,000 photos and up to 750 hours of video. The little down side is the 15MB/s is far slower than a NAS transferring over WiFi. Consider a wireless N connectivity which could go up to top speed of 18+MB/s or more theoretically.

The Imation Pro WX wireless USB HDD costs $500. If the price matters but you insist to go wireless, you could also convert one of your existing external USB HDDs into wireless by connecting to it to the Winstar M4, which allows you to access the content via WiFi.

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Cisco has responded by promising the next generation of its Flip video, the Flip MinoHD to come with built-in WiFi connectivity which allows the users to take videos and then directly upload videos to YouTube. Of course with built-in WiFi only allows users manage to get hooked onto WiFi network to upload videos. But this is a lot easier than doing it on the previous models.

Perhaps Cisco should think of equipping the future models with 3G or WiMax to provide more options of connectivity. Besides WiFi support, other feature that the Flip MinoHD will get is a larger screen that will slide open to reveal menu buttons.

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The H2Orb is like a water valve that attaches directly to the water valve behind the toilet and has a single float sensor hangs inside the toilet tank. When a leak is detected, it shuts off the water and alerts the user of the leak with an audible alarm and also displays an icon on its LCD display. The entire system runs on a single 3V lithium coin cell battery.

Water leak could cause certain internal damages of appliances or other wooden house decors. The device is useful to let you know if there is a leak as soon as possible. And also it can save your water bills and you from the screaming phone calls.

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This seems like what’s been in fairy tale, where the mirror of the wall could tell what’s happening around you. The Virtual Butler mirror is able to screen the video feeds, which allow you to see the unannounced irritating guest at the door on the living room screen which you can then decide whether to let the person in or not.

This Butler’s magic mirror is not restricted to home security system. It also serves as a good reminder for future events and activities. Such as it can alert you when the Jacuzzi is fully heated, remind you of your upcoming appointments and some more alerts you when someone leaves home on the sly.

The Virtual Butler costs $20,000, is meant for the super rich geeks, who wish to have an unusual way to be reminded and alerted any current and future events. Perhaps, those who’re too lonely may find this mirror little useful as it shows you with a face as if you have someone to talk to.

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But there shouldn’t be an apple to apple comparison between the two NASes. The Addonics Mini NAS comes with single bay only which is not possible for any RAID configuration. It comes built-in with fast Ethernet 10/100Mbps connection, supports any 2.5-inch SATA HDD or SSD.

It can also work as a USB print server. Other goodies include features found on the Addonics NAS adapter, such as support for SMB, open source Samba, iTunes music sharing, FTP access for up to 8 users simultaneously and a BitTorrent client. Costs only $69.

Buy online, $69, Shopaddonics

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Of course, the bomb-proof wallpaper is currently meant for military use, which will be considered by armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to re-decorate their army bases with it. The X-Flex bomb-proof paper is made from a Kevlar sheet which is held between to sheets of elastic polymer wrap.

The video below shows how a wrecking ball was used to test and hit the walls with the wallpaper. With the X-Flex on the backside, the ball could not bring the walls down. Without the wallpaper, the walls crumbled on the first hit.

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To turn on the lamp, the ball-shaped switch needs to be be pulled down and placed just beneath the lamp. Surprisingly, the little ball-shaped switch can remain suspended in the air slightly just beneath the lamp as shown in the picture below.

The little secret behind is the lamp uses magnetic force to keep the little ball-shaped switch suspended in the air, presenting little magic to wow your friends.

To switch off the lamp just push the switch back. This lamp is the work of Constance Guisset and Gregory Cid.

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The Inspiron Zino HD nettop is stuffed with an AMD Athlon 2650e 1.6GHz processor, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon 3200 graphics card. It also packs a 7200RPM 250GB HDD and an 8X DVD burner. Unfortunately the base model lacks WiFi connectivity, if you want WiFi, you’ll need to get the $399 model which comes with 3G RAM and Athlon 2850e processor.

These Inspiron Zino nettops are ready for connections to external HD displays, come equipped with HDMI connectors and also two eSATA connectors and 4 USB ports for hooking up to more storage drives. It can be pre-loaded with Windows 7/Vista or Ubuntu Linux 9.0.4. Options include AMD Athlon 2850e/X2 3250e/Neo X2 6850e, ATI Radeon HD4330 graphics card, up to 8GB DDR2 RAM and 1TB hard drive.

It’s super compact, measures only 8″ by 8″, offers 10 optional interchangeable colors and designs that shall blend well with your home decors and furniture.

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The Ocean Theater can work in several modes, e.g the Closed mode can even turn your apartment wall into an ocean which has 120 types of sea creatures living in it. It has lots of fishes, dolphins, sharks and you name it, to be projected on the walls.

You can also adjust different background sounds such as playful sounds of dolphins or noise of lapping waves to give you the soothing effect. You can also dock your iPod on it to play some music once you’ve got little bored with the ocean and the creatures.

Buy online, Japantrendshop, $235

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The first version of the Withings scale was able to connect to Withings website or iPhone app via WiFi to track your weight. And the latest version of this scale tweets your weight on Twitter. This special scale costs $159.

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The Samsung P2770 HD comes with a number of interesting features, as mentioned it’s got an integrated TV tuner, and other goodies including an HDMI port, two 3-watt stereo speakers capable of two 3-watt stereo speakers. And the display itself supports full HD, boasts a response time of 5ms and a 50,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio.

It also features the Picture in Picture and Picture by Picture modes. It’ll be available in S. Korea for a price at approx. $473. Look, the Korean chick loves it!

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Protection One security panels allow you to have various detections such as gas leakages or any possible intrusion to sensitive areas in your home. Now these security panels are able to send text alerts to an iPhone with the eSecure app installed, once something suspicious detected.

The eSecure iPhone app also allows you to control your home security system remotely. Such as checking if it’s properly armed and disarm it to let cleaning clews in while you’re at work. Read more in the press release below.

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The user will only need to place a coaster in the sensor area, the HTPC will then start streaming that specific selection which includes local news, This week in tech podcast and other specific albums. The system also has shuffle function which it includes a “shuffle” tag that is useful to play content randomly when the users have lost their way of making selection. Video is included below to show it works.

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Similar to many other retro radios, the Revo Heritage also comes with a big volume control knob on the side, which is pretty smooth for spinning. The device also supports Last.fm streaming but it’ll run you £3 a month once the 30-day trial is over. But you’ll also get DAB and FM when you can’t hook up to a WiFi connection.

Other goodies include 3-inch speaker drivers, 7W amp, 3.5 mm headphone jack, and iPod video output. It’s now available for pre-order at £229.95 ($382).

Buy online, Revo, £229.95, Pre-order

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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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