Squeeze juice out of cockroaches to power your smartphones and gadgets

The ugly pests, roaches will be able to provide power for your gadgets and smartphones. Researchers at Case Western Reserve University managed to extract chemicals within the abdomen of cockroaches which can be useful resources for fuel cell, producing electricity for your gadgets and smartphones. Read the full description of how it works after the jump.

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Apple patent physically feel-able virtual touchscreen keyboard

The little downside of a touchscreen keyboard is you can’t feel it physically. That’s why some users may prefer older models of BlackBerry devices that have physical keyboards which they can feel physically and type faster. Anyway, Apple have their way to build a better virtual touchscreen keyboard that allows you to feel its keys physically.

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Akai Pro announces MPC Renaissance and MAX49 for the music-production geeks

If you’re one of those who’ve got your own studio and been producing music, you’d love to learn that the two new products announced by Akai Pro, which are known as MPC Renaissance and MAX49.

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Alesis unveils Vortex – the world’s first USB/MIDI keytar controller

Alesis is a renown maker of music instruments and tools for today’s musicians, having unveiled the world’s first USB/MIDI keytar controller which is known as Vortex.

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LG Optimus LTE Pad gets launched in S. Korea

LG has launched its LG Optimus LTE Pad Android tablet in its home country – S. Korea. The tablet runs Android Honeycomb OS and is equipped with a 8.9-inch True HD IPS touchscreen display.

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Ideum MT65 Presenter – a 65-inch multi-touch 3D wall display

Here comes a huge 65-inch 3D multi-touch wall display known as the Ideum MT65 Presenter. It’s equipped with an integrated computer, built-in audio and webcam. All these are packed in a body that measures 4 inches in thickness.

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LG announces world’s largest 55-ich OLED TV

LG has announced the world’s largest 55-inch OLED TV and is ready to showcase it at CES 2012. The LG’s 55-inch OLED TV is able to produce remarkable image quality with no after image due to its high reaction velocity as well as offering high contrast ratio of 100,000 to 1 ratio and wider color gamut than produced by LED panels.

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Verbatim unveils super stylish USB 3.0 Universal and Pocket card readers

Verbatim has unveiled a couple of stylish and portable universal card readers that feature USB 3.0/USB 2.0 connection interface. The USB 3.0 universal card reader allow you have up to 5Gbps of data transfer speeds and come in a silver finish. While the USB 2.0 Universal card reader delivers data at 480Mbps and comes in a classic piano black finish.

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Verizon to launch Motorola Xyboard today

Two versions of Motorola Xyboard tablets will be launched by Verizon today. The two Motorola devices are the Xyboard 10.1 and Xyboard 8.2. Both will come loaded with the Android Honeycomb 3.2 OS but with plans to be upgraded to the Android 4.0 ICS and be LTE 4G compatible.

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World’s first Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet costs only $100!

Want an affordable tablet that runs the latest Android 4.0 ICS OS? Here comes the first Android 4.0 ICS tablet which has been announced by U.S.-based MIPS Technologies and Ingenic Semiconductor, a China-based mobile chip provider.

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