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 Motorola Droid is available from Verizon for $199.99 for 2-year contract and includes a mail-in $100 rebate. There is also a 12-month contract available which will cost you $269.99.

Other than that the HTC Droid Eris has also been made available today from Verizon costs $99.99 with a mail 2-year contract after a $100 mail-in rebate. The HTC Droid Eris features a 3.2-inch capacitive touch display, a 5 megapixel camera, a microSD card slot, headphone jack, digital compass, voice dialing, GPS, full browser with Flash Lite, WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity, plus lots of Google services.

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The Super Talent USB 3.0 flash drive is expected to be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. And of course you will need to have a computer that comes with the USB 3.0 ports to enjoy the high speeds of up to 200MB/sec. If you want the top speed 320MB/sec on USB 3.0 port, you need a separate UAS Protocol driver to achieve that.

The drive can also work on USB 2.0 port but operates at slower speeds. Anyway, no word for the price and release date.

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The Asus 17.3-inch G72GX hasn’t got its details revealed. But the 15.6-inch G51J3D has got some details which it’ll come with NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX160M graphics card, with 1G dedicated DDR3 video RAM. The laptop relies on the active-shutter specs to achieve the 3D effect, allowing up to 15 people sitting around the laptop and watching 3D film without any viewing angle problems.

The 15.6-inch G51J3D will be launched next month, while the 17.3-inch G72GX needs you to wait until Q2 2010.

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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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The Zinc Air battery simply sucks the oxygen from room air to generate current. Air and zinc are the electrodes, making zinc air safer than lithium-ion batteries as no volatile materials contained within that could possibly catch fire.

Zinc Air was developed by Norway firm, SINTEF and being marketed by ReVolt. The prototype been designed to fit smaller form factor and power-hungry mobile gadgets. It’d also be made for automobile industries in the form of rechargeable battery packs for electric vehicles.

The two companies are still striving to improve the recharging cycle counts of the battery before getting it to the next step. ReVolt is hoping the Zinc could reach at least 500 recharging cycles to be more solid to kick Lithium Ion battery away.

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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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If you tweet a lot but you do not own a smartphone that comes with a Twitter app, you can now make use of a little portable device called TwitterPeek to keep you tweeting on Twitter while on the run.

The TwitterPeek will run you $99 for 6 months of service ($7.95/month thereafter) and $199 with a lifetime of the device service. It allows you to have always-connected view of Twitter over a nationwide of cellular network.

Even though you’ve got a smart phone with Twitter app, you could also make use of TweetPeak, just to lessen the load of your mobile phone, making it more dedicated to calls and texts. And having TwitterPeek dedicated to keep you tweeting on Twitter.

The device is much simpler than using a mobile phone or computer, it has only a full QWERTY, color screen and click scroll wheel. A great gift for your granny so she can be kept busy on Twitter without needing to turn on and use a computer for tweeting. The device is available exclusively on Amazon.com and TwitterPeek.com from Nov 3, 2009.

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TAG Heuer has a new comer for its MERIDIIST mobile phone. And this time, they’ve teamed up with the sports car maker, to have created limited edition of MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini mobile phone.

The MERIDIIST Automobili Lamborghini is a luxury mobile phone which has been built with prestigious materials and advanced components used watchmaking and automotive. The mobile features a display made from 60.5 carats of scratch-resistant sapphire crystal. It’s housed in black titanium carbide coated 316L stainless steel and calfskin leather etc.

Other features of the MERIDIIST Lamborghini phone include a 2-megapixel camera, media player, Bluetooth, impressively long 28 days of standby and 7 hours of talk time, 2GB storage and USB 1.0 connectivity. It’ll be available in limited edition of 1963, and will hit selected TAG Heuer and Lamborghini retailers sometime this month.

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The scent signal contained in the sweat will tell if a person is scared. The scientists have carried out study on the underarm secretions of 20 terrified novice skydivers, and they have proven that the smell of the sweat reflected their fears.

The fear detector would be best used to identify terrorists or those who have committed wrongdoing at checkpoints. Currently, the researchers have got only a prototype of this device. They still have some obstacles to overcome such as it’ll not give reliable detection for those who wear perfumes or who with weird body odors.

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The Maingear Shift has been loaded with powerful components such as powerful GPUs to speed up your daily photo and video editing tasks. The Maingear Shift is housed in an aluminum case, with steel skeleton. The cooling system is pretty unique which uses top and bottom airflow and liquid cooling.

Two models of the Maingear Shift are available. The first model, Shift Intel P55 comes with an Intel Core I7 800 series processor, Intel Kingsberg P55 Extreme Series mainboard, ATI Radeon or NVidia GeForce graphics cards, up to 8GB DDR3 RAM, with storage either up to 6 HDDs or 12 SSDs and either a Blu-Ray or DVD drive.

The second model is the Shift Intel X58, which comes with an Intel Core i7 900 series processor, with either an ATI Radeon HD or NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards, an EVGA X58 SLI Classified mainboard, with massive RAM up to 24GB, choice of either 6 HDDs or 12 SSDs and either Blu-Ray or DVD.

The P55 model starts with a price at $2,199, while the X58 model starts at $2,600 and both models are to come with the Windows 7 OS.

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This gestural interface is called Muscle computer interface, which allows your finger or hand movements in the air, without touching a device or instrument but allowing you to control or operate the device precisely. The interface can be developed for game play, such for playing Guitar Hero without needing a physical guitar controller.

The Muscle computer interface will have a couple of EMG electrodes which directly sense the electrical signals in the arms to capture finger movements that mimic the button presses. This interface should have a wide range of applications, video below shows how it’s used.

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Here comes the Vioguard keyboard, the first of its kind that features a UV sanitizer that can kill germs and viruses. The sanitizer is a 25-watt UV light that claims to be able to kill 99.99% of bacteria and viruses in about 90 seconds. Leaving the 0.1%, which should be defendable by your own body immune system.

Some more, this keyboard is motorized, equipped with IR sensor, which hides itself when it’s not in use so it will not get contaminated by dust and dirt around. Wave your hand in front of the IR sensor, it’ll come out to serve you.

The Vioguard self-clean keyboard was introduced at the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) 91st annual meeting, October 12-17 in Toronto. It aims at medical market uses and consumers in Canada. The keyboard should appeal to health-conscious geeks, especially during the time when H1N1 flu is still pretty active over the globe. Equip one of these for your family who possibly share only one computer at home. But it’ll run you with an expensive price of $899. Video below shows the self-clean keyboard in action.

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The data transfer speeds are whopping fast on the Asus USB 3.0 mainboards, which claim the transfer of a 20GB HD movie takes only slightly more than a minute (below 70 seconds), while it’s transferring at peak speeds with the new USB connection. These Asus motherboards have also been enhanced with the Asus’ hybrid processor, hybrid phase and hybrid OS technologies that boost the overall performance, including the ability of overclocking, active cooling control and instant-on Internet access.

The ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D-E Series have both SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 on board, while the ASUS Xtreme Design P7P55D depends on a separate U3S6 PCIe x4 expansion card for the high-speed connections. Either uses the Intel’s P55 Express chipset and takes both Core i5 and Core i7 processor.

These Asus USB 3.0 mainboards have also been made to support Windows 7, which they’re to be shipped with Windows 7 drivers. But sadly, pricing and availability are still unknown.

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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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The Latitude XT2 XFR is based on the Dell XT2, but has been ruggedized to meet the needs of customers in military, police and border patrol etc. It meets the MIL-810G standards, which can stand up to military-grade of harshness and IP54 for Ingress Protection and resistance to moisture and dust.

Under the rugged case of this tablet is an Intel Core Duo 2 processor, 5GB DDR3 RAM. And you can have it equipped with optional hot-swappable modules including GPS, webcam, optional expansion sliver that provides camera/light, serial, and RJ11 inputs. The 12.1 display is capacitive multi-touch gestures-enabled (may have problem with fingers in thick gloves) and sunlight-viewable.

This Dell tablet also includes the QuadCool Thermal Management System, which allows it to keep its top performance even operated under extreme temperatures from minus 10 degrees to 140 degrees Fahrenheit. It will be available in 4-, 6- and 9-cell battery options, and of course the more cells the longer they will last. Price starts at $3,600.

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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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The Asus ESC 1000 desktop supercomputer is able to deliver an amazing speed of 1.1 teraflops, which has been achieved by the mixed configuration of a 3.3 GHz Intel LGA1366 Xeon W3580 server processor, 960 cores inside three Nvidia Tesla c1060 graphics processing cards coupled with a Quadro FX5800 GPU.

The RAM, HDD and power supply of this system are massive too, they are 24GB DDR3 1333 MHz RAM, 500GB SATA II HDD and 1100 watt high-capacity power supply respectively. With all these super components stuffed in it, it will definitely not come cheap, costs a massive $14,500.

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